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Eric Epstein

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Personal Details

Education

  • MA, Humanities, The Pennsylvania State University, 1992
  • Attended, Pennsylvania State University, Solid Waste and Recycling Management, 1990
  • Attended, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, Training Academy, Corrections Educator, 1989
  • Certified, Teaching, Millersville University, 1984
  • BS, Political Science, Willamette University, 1982.

Professional Experience

  • MA, Humanities, The Pennsylvania State University, 1992
  • Attended, Pennsylvania State University, Solid Waste and Recycling Management, 1990
  • Attended, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, Training Academy, Corrections Educator, 1989
  • Certified, Teaching, Millersville University, 1984
  • BS, Political Science, Willamette University, 1982.
  • Former Professor of Holocaust Studies, West Chester University
  • Academic Coorinator; Adult Basic Education Instructor, Tri County OIC, Loysville Secure Treatment Unit, State Correctional, 1990-2002
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Holocaust Studies, Pennsylvania State University, 1992-1999

Political Experience

  • MA, Humanities, The Pennsylvania State University, 1992
  • Attended, Pennsylvania State University, Solid Waste and Recycling Management, 1990
  • Attended, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, Training Academy, Corrections Educator, 1989
  • Certified, Teaching, Millersville University, 1984
  • BS, Political Science, Willamette University, 1982.
  • Former Professor of Holocaust Studies, West Chester University
  • Academic Coorinator; Adult Basic Education Instructor, Tri County OIC, Loysville Secure Treatment Unit, State Correctional, 1990-2002
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Holocaust Studies, Pennsylvania State University, 1992-1999
  • Candidate, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania House of Representatives, District 105, 2018
  • Candidate, Pennsylvania Senate, District 15, 2004

Religious, Civic, and other Memberships

  • MA, Humanities, The Pennsylvania State University, 1992
  • Attended, Pennsylvania State University, Solid Waste and Recycling Management, 1990
  • Attended, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, Training Academy, Corrections Educator, 1989
  • Certified, Teaching, Millersville University, 1984
  • BS, Political Science, Willamette University, 1982.
  • Former Professor of Holocaust Studies, West Chester University
  • Academic Coorinator; Adult Basic Education Instructor, Tri County OIC, Loysville Secure Treatment Unit, State Correctional, 1990-2002
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Holocaust Studies, Pennsylvania State University, 1992-1999
  • Candidate, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania House of Representatives, District 105, 2018
  • Candidate, Pennsylvania Senate, District 15, 2004
  • Chair, Stray Winds Area Neighbors, 2006-present
  • Co-Founder; Coordinator, Rock the Capital, 2005-present
  • Founding Board Member, Greater Middletown Economic Development Corporation, 2003-present
  • Founding Board Member, Alternative Fuels Council, 2002-present
  • Founding Member; President; Vice-President; Treasurer; Board Member, Sustainable Energy Fund of Central Eastern Pennsylvania, 1999-present
  • Chair/Spokesperson, Three Mile Island Alert, 1984-present
  • Member, American Nuclear Society, present
  • Member, Chisuk Emuna Synagogue, present
  • Member, Colonial Crest Association, present
  • Member, Concord Coalition, present
  • President, Emanuel Fievish, Max Rosenberg (EFMR) Monitoring Group Incorporated, present
  • Member, Museum of Jewish Heritage, present
  • Member, United Sates Holocaust Memorial Museum, present
  • Member, American Polish-Jewish Association of America
  • Member, Association of Energy Economists
  • Member, Southern Poverty Law Center
  • Member, The Simon Wiesenthal Center
  • Member, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
  • Director, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, 1995-2003
  • President, Historic B'Nai Jacob Synagogue, 1994-1997

Other Info

  • Three Cats

— Publications:

  • Co-Author, Dictionary of the Holocaust, Greenwood Press, 1997
  • Prepared, Appendices, The Holocaust Chronicle, 2000

Policy Positions

Pennsylvania State Legislative Election 2004 National Political Awareness Test

Abortion

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding abortion.

1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer

2. Abortions should always be legal.
- X

3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- No Answer

4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
- No Answer

5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- No Answer

6. Prohibit public funding of abortions and of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer

7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Budgetary, Spending and Tax

State Budget: Indicate the funding levels (#1-6) you will support for the following general categories. Select one level per category.

1. Education (Higher)
- Slightly Increase

2. Education (K-12)
- Greatly Increase

3. Environment
- Greatly Increase

4. Health care
- Slightly Increase

5. Law enforcement
- Slightly Increase

6. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Maintain Status

7. Welfare
- Maintain Status

8. Other or expanded categories
- Eliminate

State Taxes: Indicate the tax levels (#1-6) you will support. Select one level per tax.

1. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status

2. Capital gains taxes
- Maintain Status

3. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status

4. Corporate taxes
- Maintain Status

5. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status

6. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Slightly Decrease

7. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- No Answer

8. Inheritance taxes
- Slightly Decrease

9. Property taxes
- Greatly Decrease

10. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status

11. Vehicle taxes
- Maintain Status

12. Other or expanded categories
- Greatly Increase

13. Should Internet sales be taxed?
- Yes

14. Do you support legalizing slot machines at racetracks?
- Yes

15. Do you support an increase in income taxes in order to lower property taxes and increase aid to education?
- No

16. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Campaign Finance and Governmental Reform

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding campaign finance and government reform.

1. Do you support the current limit of two four-year terms for Pennsylvania governors?
- Yes

2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Pennsylvania state senators and representatives?
- No

Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative and gubernatorial candidates?

1. Individual
- Yes

2. PAC
- Yes

3. Corporate
- Yes

4. Political Parties
- Yes

5. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes

6. Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?
- Yes

7. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying, and ensuring accuracy of votes?
- Yes

8. Do you support prohibiting the reporting of media exit polling results until all polling locations in Pennsylvania are closed?
- Yes

9. Should Pennsylvania recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- Yes

10. Should Pennsylvania restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
- No

11. Do you support requiring telecommunications firms to offer broadband services to all of Pennsylvania by 2010?
- Yes

12. Do you support reauthorizing Pennsylvania's current telecommunications regulations (Chapter 30)?
- Yes

Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative and gubernatorial candidates?

1. Other or expanded principles
- For "k": Add Lifeline provisions.

Crime

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding crime.

1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer

2. Support the death penalty in Pennsylvania.
- No Answer

3. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X

4. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
- No Answer

5. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X

6. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- No Answer

7. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- No Answer

8. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- X

9. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- X

10. Increase funding for state and local emergency agencies to prevent and to respond to terrorist attacks.
- X

11. Allow the use of radar and LIDAR by local police departments.
- X

12. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Education

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education.

1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
- No Answer

2. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school.
- No Answer

3. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
- No Answer

4. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
- X

5. Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
- X

6. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
- No Answer

7. Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
- No Answer

8. Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- No Answer

9. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- X

10. Increase funding for Head Start programs.
- X

11. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- X

12. Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- X

13. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- No Answer

14. Other or expanded principles
- X

Employment and Affirmative Action

Employment: Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding employment.

1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers and teach skills needed in today's job market.
- X

2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
- No Answer

3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses.
- X

4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- X

5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- X

6. Include sexual orientation in Pennsylvania's anti-discrimination laws.
- X

7. Increase the state minimum wage.
- X

8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Affirmative Action: Should race, ethnicity, or gender be taken into account in state agencies' decisions on:

1. Public employment
- Yes

2. State college and university admissions
- Yes

3. State contracting
- Yes

4. Other or expanded principles
- Yes

Environment and Energy

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the environment and energy.

1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- X

2. Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, and oil).
- No Answer

3. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
- X

4. Support funding for open space preservation.
- X

5. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- X

6. Support the $800 million Growing Greener bond.
- X

7. Support waiving sales taxes on the purchase of energy efficient appliances during twice-annual "tax holidays."
- X

8. Other or expanded principles
- X

Gun

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding guns.

1. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer

2. Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer

3. Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer

4. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
- X

5. Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
- X

6. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- X

7. Require a license for gun possession.
- X

8. Other or expanded principles
- X

Health

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding health.

1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
- X

2. Transfer more existing Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
- No Answer

3. Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- No Answer

4. Support patients' right to sue their HMOs.
- X

5. Support patients' right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied.
- X

6. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer

7. Legalize physician assisted suicide in Pennsylvania.
- X

8. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Welfare and Poverty

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding welfare.

1. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
- No Answer

2. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- X

3. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- X

4. Limit benefits given to recipients if they have additional children while on welfare.
- No Answer

5. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
- No Answer

6. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor.
- X

7. Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.
- No Answer

8. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
- No Answer

9. Other or expanded principles
- X

Legislative Priorities

Please explain in a total of 75 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
- No Answer