He cited Penn Dems’ 2019 “Penn voted at a much larger rate than we’ve seen previously for elections like that,” Nevett said. The group's executive board voted unanimously to endorse five candidates to represent Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives: Dwight Evans (PA-03), Madeleine Dean (PA-04), Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05), Conor Lamb (PA-17), and Eugene DePasquale (PA-10), all of whom except DePasquale are incumbents. Is the program achieving the results that the legislature intended when it created that particular program? Tracking how resources were allocated to testing for the virus, issues around distribution of equipment, the availability of the personal protective equipment, infection control at nursing homes, student loan relief efforts, unemployment benefits, paycheck protection programs, and the use of funds by various agencies are all important.

Evans represents Pennsylvania's 3rd Congressional District, which encompasses Penn, and Nevett believes Evans' push for access to affordable, nutritious food is especially important due to Fresh Grocer’s upcoming Nevett believes endorsements from Penn Dems have been influential for local and state candidates in the past. Later in the semester, Penn Dems plans to announce additional primary endorsements for Pennsylvania General Assembly candidates running in the “I think our endorsement [for the 188th District] is fairly important, because Penn is a huge part of it but also because so much important legislation happens at the state level,” Wennberg said. The DCED Small Business Loan program appears patently unfair in its approval and distribution and should be audited. In the past 12 years, Penn Dems has always endorsed a Democratic candidate ahead of the primary. The Democratic race to replace Auditor General Eugene DePasquale is taking shape. All of this will be done under my administration.”“As Auditor General, while conducting post-audits of awarded COVID-19 Economic Stimulus Funds is definitely a high priority of mine, I see a definite need for the elected Auditor General to also be proactive by assisting in reducing the risk of fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement from occurring in the first place. Establishing a data office which will use analytics to identify departments and units of government that have robust financial control systems as the initial funding distribution channels would directly help reduce and identify improper activities or weaknesses in programs that warrant scrutiny. "There are a number of candidates in the field, obviously this is historically crowded, and it is also very much in flux," he said. The risk of fraud and abuse grows when large sums are spent quickly in response to a large scale public health crisis, especially where new programs and guidelines are evolving. While running for Auditor General, Conklin will also run in … As such, Mallinson said that name identification will likely be the most important factor for Democratic Party voters in the primary.With less than a week to go, he said he’s not sure that any of the candidates in the race have much of a statewide brand and doubts the race has a clear frontrunner. The communication and response around nursing homes and the health department seems ripe for review. (Min Xian/Keystone Crossroads) A seven-term state lawmaker from central Pennsylvania said Monday that he will seek the Democratic nomination to run for the open state auditor general’s office this year.Scott Conklin enters a crowded field ahead of Pennsylvania’s Feb. 18 deadline to submit nomination petitions to the state elections bureau to get on the April primary ballot.Conklin, of Centre County, was also the party’s nominee for lieutenant governor in 2010 on that year’s failed Democratic gubernatorial ticket.Other Democrats who have said they are running include Pittsburgh’s third-term city controller Michael Lamb, Christina Hartman, a former congressional candidate from Lancaster County, Nina Ahmad, a former Philadelphia deputy mayor, and Tracie Fountain, a three-decade veteran employee of the auditor general’s office.Pennsylvania’s current auditor general, Democrat Eugene DePasquale, is completing a second four-year term and is constitutionally barred from seeking another.On the Republican side, Lancaster County Commissioner Dennis Stuckey has said he will seek his party’s nomination.