Margie Brown
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Margie Brown (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Pennsylvania State Senate to represent District 25. She lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Brown completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Margie Brown earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford in 1992 and pursued her graduate education at Saint Bonaventure University and Wilkes University. Her career experience includes working as a communications instructor, public school teacher, and broadcast journalist.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Pennsylvania State Senate elections, 2020
General election
General election for Pennsylvania State Senate District 25
Cris Dush defeated Margie Brown in the general election for Pennsylvania State Senate District 25 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Cris Dush (R) | 74.4 | 88,994 |
 | Margie Brown (D)  | 25.6 | 30,608 | |
| Total votes: 119,602 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania State Senate District 25
Margie Brown advanced from the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania State Senate District 25 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Margie Brown | 100.0 | 14,038 |
| Total votes: 14,038 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Pennsylvania State Senate District 25
Cris Dush defeated John Herm Suplizio and James Brown in the Republican primary for Pennsylvania State Senate District 25 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Cris Dush | 59.0 | 23,087 |
 | John Herm Suplizio | 31.3 | 12,232 | |
 | James Brown | 9.7 | 3,799 | |
| Total votes: 39,118 | |||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Margie Brown completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Brown's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Margie Brown currently serves on City Council in Saint Marys, Elk County. She is also a Communications Instructor at The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford and a former public school teacher, broadcast journalist, and on-air talent. She has served as a volunteer and on boards for various nonprofit & charitable organizations as well as serving as a student advisor. Born in Potter County and raised in McKean County, Margie Brown believes in the importance of rural communities and their infrastructure - that elected officials must stop serving corporate donors and return to the roots of serving their constituents. "Our district and much of Rural PA has many needs. A rural broadband initiative to support telemedicine and online teaching would have an immediate positive effect on the communities in our district. Both were necessary during the pandemic, and I was fortunate to have access, but some of my students were not." Margie Brown is also concerned with access to affordable healthcare. "Prior to the pandemic, economists viewed rural hospitals as triage units. Eventually, every rural hospital would be reduced a satellite and hospice. It's abundantly clear now that the community hospitals are greatly needed." Margie, like her neighbors, believes expanded opportunities will lead more young adults to return to our area to make their lives where they enjoyed the outdoors, growing up, going to school, and learning the hometown values that make our communities stronger.
- Long before Pennsylvania was exposed to the global pandemic, rural Pennsylvania's economy was suffering. Economic recovery for rural Pennsylvania must be focused on championing fair taxes , middle class jobs, and infrastructure buildout of broadband for education and telemedicine. Fair taxing means that ecommerce companies will pay their share in earned income taxes instead of extracting wealth and burdening local residents who must support their own schools and cities. Middle class jobs include the trades as well as other skilled labor and professions that require a college education or advanced certifications, but often the taxing burden and healthcare reduces the earned income benefits associated with middle class earnings.
- Healthcare is a priority. Nations and states are only as healthy as their people. The pandemic as highlighted weaknesses in our ability to provide affordable and accessible healthcare. Many cases of untreated mental health issues or physicall pain led to opiate use and abuse. Pennsylvania can and should legislate caps on copays for insulin, alternatives to employer-based healthcare, and making out of pocket pricing for routine healthcare or basic procedures accessible to patients.
- "Decriminalization and Legalization of marijuana is long past due." Margie Brown endorses the effort to simultaneously decriminalize and legalize marijuana. While a small amount of personal growth or possession should also be legal, the thrust of this initialtive would be to reap the many benefits that places like Colorado have seen. Pennsylvania has the same kind of tourist attractions, wilderness, and recreational features that Colorado has capitalized on. Pennsylvania would greatly benefit from similarly enhancing those attractions while increasing revenue and reducing the civil and financial costs of prosecuting the outdated prohibition of marijiuana.
"It is difficult for anyone running for public office to be taken seriously in a discussion about public policy when they have betrayed the public trust," says Margie Brown.
"Lobbying, corruption, indiscriminate spending, accepting corporate donations, and even prizing those donations and opinions over those of voters is the opposite of what people turn out and vote for, but it is too often what they get." While voters want to reduce crime, they are unaware of a campaign financing quid pro quo with for-profit prisons. Taxpayers fund the prisons, which then fund campaigns and create a perverse incentive to generate more profits from taxpayers. Private prisons are one of many examples of this betrayal of the public trust via quid pro quo.
"While fair salaries, healthcare, and pensions are provided to elected officials - by their own vote - the same opportunities are denied to many in the working and middle classes. In fact, very few are afforded similar benefits," says Brown.
This erosion of the public trust is compounded by policies that deny voters equal access to the polls, healthcare, education, and commerce. Some elected officials even try to fix district lines and ensure their re-election while splitting up communities and working for the approval of lobbyists. Grandstanding is what they do best while doing little to address issues that truly affect voters. The betrayal of the public trust is widespread and corrosive to society. "Our communities deserve better."
"I look up to those whose joy is derived from making others feel like valued members of society. There are many - to numerous to name. I admire acts, gestures, a kind look, helpfulness, grace, even vulnerability that shows others they are not alone. There are a million little heroic acts of kindness or good will to be found in everyday life."
Leadership is an Art - Max DePree
Honesty and Humanity.
Represent the needs of the constituency in the legislature, as well as meeting with and assisting members of our communities.
"I was going into first grade when Richard Nixon resigned. I remember watching the nightly news with my parents and their having explained to me why he resigned and that Gerald Ford was our new president. I also remember a magazine with Nixon's face on it. I knew it was big news because I had learned to read the year before, and I saw his name everywhere. I didn't know what was really going on, but I knew Nixon was also in trouble for lying. "
"I worked as a waitress during her first year of college, learning the value of customer service, the realities of working through slow and busy shifts, and the challenges of unreliable earnings."
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley because when she wrote it, it was so incredibly different from all other representations of/from women.
One would never know that women were so intimately connected with life, death, pain, and interdependency.
The base needs, the egotistical pursuits, and the realistic character motivations within a science fiction novel are all so raw and engaging.
She was so obviously intelligent and insightful - and not in a witty, "Isn't she a clever woman?" way.
Yes: It is important for over 50% of the population's experiences and insights to be represented and written from the perspective of a member of that group. Even what is not said says something.
Also important from a historical perspective: Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?"
What women do not have access to or agency regarding is also telling. Misconceptions is a nonfiction work about pregnancy and childbirth that examines those themes.
And that's what it all comes down to: shared experiences and agency. When only men's perspectives are represented, so much of those elements are eliminated.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Enfranchisement
Experience is always beneficial, but everyone starts somewhere. I believe my background in journalism helped prepare me for city council and city council helped prepare me for the state senate.
I believe legislators should use all of the tools at their disposal and do so with the needs of the constituency as a priority.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 19, 2020
