Joshua David Shapiro was born on June 20,1973 and is an American politician and attorney who has served as the Pennsylvania Attorney General since 2017.
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31 Facts About Joshua Shapiro
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Joshua Shapiro was elected to the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners in 2011, marking the first time Republicans lost control of Montgomery County.
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Joshua Shapiro ran for Pennsylvania attorney general in 2016, defeating Republican John Rafferty Jr.
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In 2019, Joshua Shapiro negotiated an agreement between Highmark and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to ensure that 2 million Pennsylvanians continue to have access to healthcare.
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Joshua Shapiro was born on June 20,1973, in Kansas City, Missouri, to a father serving in the Navy, and was raised in Dresher, a town in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
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At a young age, Joshua Shapiro started a worldwide letter-writing program, known as Children for Avi, on behalf of Russian Jewish refuseniks.
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In 2004, Joshua Shapiro ran for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in the 153rd district.
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Joshua Shapiro helped to broker a deal that resulted in the election of moderate Republican Dennis O'Brien as Speaker of the House.
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Joshua Shapiro won election to the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners in 2011; the election marked the first time in history that the Republican Party lost control of the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners.
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Joshua Shapiro became chairman of the board of commissioners, initially serving alongside Democrat Leslie Richards and Republican Bruce Castor.
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Joshua Shapiro announced his intention to run for Pennsylvania attorney general in January 2016.
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Joshua Shapiro campaigned on his promise to restore the office's integrity following the resignation of Kathleen Kane and he promised to work to combat the opioid epidemic and gun violence.
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In November 2016, Joshua Shapiro narrowly won election as attorney general, defeating Republican state Senator John Rafferty Jr.
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In 2017, Joshua Shapiro announced the roundup of a "Million Dollar Heroin Ring" under "Operation Outfoxed" in Luzerne County.
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All of the charges in Operation Outfoxed were dismissed after allegations that Joshua Shapiro had mishandled the sealing of wiretapped recordings.
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Joshua Shapiro joined with several other State Attorneys' General in opposing President Donald Trump's travel ban, and he filed a lawsuit against then-President Donald Trump and the Roman Catholic organization Little Sisters of the Poor to block the implementation of a rule that would have made it easier for employers to deny health insurance coverage of contraceptives.
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Joshua Shapiro chose to move forward with the investigation, and, in August 2018, he released the results of an extensive grand jury report.
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Joshua Shapiro'sreport prompted similar investigations in other states into the Catholic Church, such as an inquiry launched by then-Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley.
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Joshua Shapiro was one of 20 electors selected by the Pennsylvania Democratic Party to vote in the Electoral College for Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris in 2020 United States presidential election.
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In December 2019, Joshua Shapiro charged State Representative Movita Johnson-Harrell with perjury and theft of funds from her supposedly nonprofit charity on such things as vacations and clothing.
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In July 2021, Shapiro charged State Representative Margo L Davidson with theft by deception, solicitation to hinder apprehension, and Election Code violations after stealing from the Commonwealth by filing fraudulent overnight per diem requests and various other expenses through the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Comptroller's Office as well as hindering a state prosecution.
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Joshua Shapiro had long been expected to run for governor of Pennsylvania and on October 13,2021, Joshua Shapiro announced his candidacy for governor in the 2022 election.
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Joshua Shapiro faced no opponents in the Democratic primary for Governor and on May 17,2022, Joshua Shapiro secured the Democratic nomination.
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Joshua Shapiro is a self-described progressive Democrat and is running on a platform of protecting voting rights, abortion rights, and raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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Joshua Shapiro's campaign faced criticism from some progressives because of his support for capital punishment for "heinous crimes", his public feuds with Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, and his compromising with police unions to pass police reform bills.
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Joshua Shapiro later changed his position, now saying he is an opponent of capital punishment and would sign a bill to abolish it.
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The ad was seen as an "endorsement" for which Republican primary contender Joshua Shapiro would want to face in the general election, with Mastriano being seen as too "extreme" for swing voters to elect.
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However, the impact Joshua Shapiro's ads had on the primary is disputed as Mastriano was already in the lead for the Republican nomination.
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Joshua Shapiro has said if elected governor, he will protect abortion access in Pennsylvania and veto any bill passed by the state legislature that would outlaw abortion in the Commonwealth.
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Joshua Shapiro is skeptical about Pennsylvania joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a market-based program to reduce some greenhouse gas emissions.
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Joshua Shapiro has proposed a plan that will allow for a $250 gas tax refund per personal passenger vehicle up to four vehicles per household.
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