1. Joseph Merrill Hoeffel III is an American author and politician.
32 Facts About Joe Hoeffel
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Joe Hoeffel was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 2004, and for Governor of Pennsylvania in 2010.
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Joe Hoeffel was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Joseph and Eleanore Joe Hoeffel.
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Joe Hoeffel served in the Army Reserves from 1970 to 1976.
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Joe Hoeffel first became involved in politics during the 1972 presidential election, when his opposition to the Vietnam War led him to support Senator George McGovern.
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In 1973, he became a legislative aide to Representative Gerry Studds of Massachusetts, for whom Joe Hoeffel did research on foreign overfishing.
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Joe Hoeffel successfully ran again for state House in 1976, after Beren decided to not seek re-election.
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Joe Hoeffel was the first Democrat to represent the Abington area since World War I Joe Hoeffel served from 1977 to 1985.
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Joe Hoeffel sought a rematch in 1986, and was defeated again.
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In 1996, Joe Hoeffel made a third run at Congress, taking on his former colleague on the Montgomery County Commission, Jon Fox, now a first-term Congressman.
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Joe Hoeffel became only the second Democrat to represent the Montgomery County-based district in 86 years.
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Joe Hoeffel thus became the first Democrat to serve more than one term in the district in decades.
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In Congress, Joe Hoeffel was a member of two House committees: International Relations and Transportation and Infrastructure.
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On July 20,2004, Joe Hoeffel became the third sitting US Congressman in one week, following Charles Rangel and Bobby Rush, to be arrested for trespassing while protesting alleged human rights violations in front of the Sudanese Embassy.
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Rather than holding onto his seat, Joe Hoeffel decided in 2004 to run for the US Senate against incumbent Republican Arlen Specter.
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Joe Hoeffel was at a considerable disadvantage because of Specter's popularity in the Philadelphia suburbs.
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Joe Hoeffel announced that he would run for lieutenant governor in March 2006 against incumbent Catherine Baker Knoll, but dropped out of the race a day later.
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In February 2007, Joe Hoeffel announced that he would resign his post in order to run for the Montgomery County Commission with incumbent Ruth Damsker.
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Joe Hoeffel finished second, behind Castor, winning a seat on the Commission, but his running mate fell short, keeping control in Republican hands.
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However, thanks to a deal with Matthews, Joe Hoeffel became Vice Chairman of the Commission, in exchange for supporting Matthews' bid to become Chairman over Castor.
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On September 20,2009, Joe Hoeffel announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania.
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Joe Hoeffel received endorsements from NOW, the Stonewall Democrats, the United Auto Workers, and various local affiliates of Democracy for America.
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Joe Hoeffel followed Matthews, who initially announced his intention to seek re-election.
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However, unlike Matthews, who was later alleged to have perjured himself while testifying to the grand jury, Joe Hoeffel was never charged with criminal wrongdoing.
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On March 10,2018, Joe Hoeffel announced that he would seek to retake his old congressional seat, now renumbered as the 4th District.
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Joe Hoeffel favors keeping the current defined benefit pension plan for all teachers over a change to a defined contribution plan for new hires.
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Joe Hoeffel would continue the school funding formula implemented by Governor Ed Rendell to reduce dependence on local property taxes to fund schools.
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Joe Hoeffel is endorsed by former NARAL Pro-Choice America President Kate Michelman, and by the Pennsylvania chapter of the National Organization for Women.
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Joe Hoeffel favors amending Pennsylvania's Hate Crimes Law to include crimes targeting LGBT people and supports full marriage rights.
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Joe Hoeffel provides a first-person account of the Congressional debate on the Iraq War Resolution, and argues that the Bush White House misled Congress and the country and took the United States to war in Iraq under false pretenses.
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Joe Hoeffel suggests intelligence reforms to prevent such deceptions from happening again.
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Joe Hoeffel's grandfather, named Joseph M "Joe" Hoeffel, served as coach of the Green Bay Packers in 1921.