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I support Stacy Parks Miller for district attorney. She has impressed with her grasp of the law and her recognition that the application of the law must be tempered by wisdom and careful reflection.
Her defense of Penn State student and Mifflin Streaker Elizabeth Burke against a charge of public lewdness displayed a grasp of the law that seems to have eluded the current district attorney, whose office laid the charge against Burke.
Parks Miller has been a prosecutor and a defense lawyer for 15 years and has served as an acting DA. Her range of experience, her analytical mind and persuasiveness made evident during the campaign, and her empathy for law-enforcement personnel and the rights of the accused speak to the range of skills that will make her an effective district attorney.
Cary Fraser State College
Councilman is invaluable
We ask that you join us in voting for Ron Filippelli to serve for another four years as State College Borough councilman. We have known him as our friend, our colleague and a co-member of community service boards, and as a council member.
After a career as a professor and administrator, Filippelli has applied his talents and skills to setting the best course for State College. He has exhibited the essential characteristics necessary in a council member: intelligence, honesty, pragmatism and willingness to listen, hear and respond.
His commitment to enhancing the quality of life enjoyed by residents, hinged with his healthy realism of “what can be,” leads him to make the best choices for our town. We cannot afford to be without him.
Rich and Sally Kalin State College
Praise for court nominee
On Nov. 3, Pennsylvanians will head to the polls and vote to elect the candidate who will serve on our state’s highest court. As your congressman, I know that we need judges on our statewide appellate courts who appreciate the law and best serve the interests of our communities. That’s why I am proud to endorse our Republican judicial ticket led by Supreme Court candidate Joan Orie Melvin.
Judge Orie Melvin fought against the pay raise and has presided over an amazing 8,000 appellate cases. I am confident that she will serve as the judge we need, making the critical decisions our state will face over the next decade. She will interpret the law as written.
Orie Melvin has the perspective we need on the Supreme Court. Please join me in supporting her.
Glenn “G.T.” Thompson Howard
In favor of a change
When reviewing Centre County District Attorney Michael Madeira’s record, it is easy to see that it is time for a change. It is time to stop prosecuting harmless streakers on campus. It is time to stop withholding evidence in murder trials. It is time to stop hiring assistant DAs of questionable moral character. And it is time to stop the incompetence that leads to the DA being sued.
Stacy Parks Miller has the experience, knowledge and integrity to restore respect to the DA’s office. It’s time for a change. That is why I am voting for Parks Miller on Nov. 3.
Ted Hovick Port Matilda
Green-minded candidate
I enthusiastically support Elizabeth Goreham for State College mayor. She has been instrumental in building support for environmentally sustainable policies and projects that are “greening” the borough every day.
Her efforts to improve curbside recycling, create bicycling and pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods, pass the borough’s Climate Protection Resolution, secure Musser Gap and support green-design planning and construction for downtown demonstrate her commitment to thinking globally and acting locally.
Her experience in local and regional government will benefit our town. The mayor represents our interests in Harrisburg and Washington, D.C., and helps protect our beautiful landscapes at home. We need a proactive mayor who will help attract green businesses, green jobs and green professionals to Happy Valley.
Her support for the homestead exclusion for homeowners helped reduce property taxes, keeping a little “green” in our pocketbooks as well. Vote Goreham for mayor.
Laura Piraino (Silver) State College
Candidate knows schools
I am writing in support of Brian Kaleita for State College Area school board. I have known him for more than 30 years, and I know him to have the skills and abilities needed to direct the financial affairs of our school district.
As a longtime borough resident, I have watched our school property taxes increase year after year by rates that exceed inflation, while enrollment in our schools has actually decreased. Kaleita is a businessman and father of three daughters who knows how to watch the budgetary bottom line. He will act with the interests of our schoolchildren and all of the taxpayers.
Rev. Marjorie Holland State College
Firsthand knowledge
I knew Stacy Parks Miller when she was first assistant district attorney in Clearfield County and I was the superintendent of the State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale.
I was impressed by her thoroughness and fairness and by how she treated correctional officers who were assaulted at work as victims instead of as perpetrators. She will bring good management and order to the District Attorney’s Office and will not tolerate sexual harassment and incompetence.
She will focus on effective and fair prosecution rather than on looking good in the press. Let’s bring some sense and responsibility back to this office by voting for her.
John McCullough State College
A fine public servant
I am proud to support Elizabeth Goreham for mayor of State College. We worked together several years ago to start the Centre Region Bicycle Coalition ( www.centrebike.org), which is an advocacy organization to support alternative transportation. One of our most important goals was to promote and enhance the vitality of our downtown district.
She believes our community is strongest when it is accessible via cars, buses, taxis, walkways and bicycles. She believes our community is most congenial and attractive, to us and to visitors, when we balance growth with attention to aesthetics and environment. She is a classic public servant, unselfish and hardworking. She listens, she studies the issues from every angle, she strives for compromise and she makes good decisions.
Goreham will be a great representative of State College in the region, the commonwealth and beyond.
Brian Dempsey State College
A good neighbor
There’s no place like home. State College residents are fundamentally interested in the integrity of our neighborhoods — safety, civility and economic stability.
When I think of the type of leader we need in State College, I think of someone who supports neighborhoods, home ownership and our quality of life.
Elizabeth Goreham has a proven track record in these important areas, and that’s why I strongly support her for mayor. If you’re like me, believing that some of our biggest issues are right in our own backyards, you’ll vote for Goreham on Nov. 3.
Peg Hambrick State College
Clear choice for DA
Stacy Parks Miller is best qualified to serve the needs of our county. She is a seasoned attorney and experienced prosecutor — born and educated in central Pennsylvania — with a clear understanding of the law, the demands of this position, the requirements for prudent management or our resources, and the expectations of Centre County residents for fair and equitable treatment.
I have lived in this area since 1957 and have the greatest admiration for my fellow residents. They are straightforward, honest, fiscally prudent, hardworking folks who expect their district attorney to approach each case in a competent, efficient manner without preferential treatment. Based on the performance of the past four years, our current district attorney comes up short.
I will cast my vote for Parks Miller on Nov. 3. She is our best choice.
Maria Sweet Patton Township
Keeping the county safe
Congressional Quarterly Press has ranked Centre County as America’s second safest metro area for the second year in a row, even in light of Princeton’s Review’s ranking Penn State as the No. 1 party school.
The district attorney is the chief law enforcement officer in the county — thus assigned to keep the community safe. DA Michael Madeira is a career prosecutor with a proven record. Through his efforts and the coordination of State College and Penn State police, students are able to walk home from the downtown district in the late morning hours and feel safe and secure.
The Office of District Attorney significantly impacts our lives. Public safety is one of the fundamental concerns that matter to residents.
Madeira is a man of conviction and principle and holds a concrete sense of right and wrong — qualities we need as the chief law enforcement officer of State College and Centre County.
Anthony Christina State College
The writer is treasurer of Penn State College Republicans.
Time for change
The legal troubles surrounding District Attorney Michael Madeira’s office really put the nail in the coffin of his re-election campaign. Former Penn State football player Austin Scott, who was wrongfully prosecuted for rape, has filed a lawsuit against Madeira and others over the handling of his case.
If this wasn’t enough, the Attorney General’s Office is investigating former assistant district attorney Lance Marshall for allegedly soliciting sex from a crime victim in a case he prosecuted. Such conduct committed by the people whose job is to enforce the law and uphold the Constitution is unacceptable.
It is time for change in the DA’s office. Stacy Parks Miller will uphold the Constitution, be an effective leader, and make the right decisions to protect the citizens of Centre County. On Election Day, vote for change by voting for Parks Miller.
Daniel Devlin State College
An advocate for education
Vote for Gowen Roper, David Hutchinson and Jim Leous for the State College Area school board. All three are exceptional public servants who place the need to educate our students at first priority.
Roper and Hutchinson have maintained a high level of integrity and openness for the public and school district through a challenging and controversial time period, while always placing education first.
Leous has a desire to serve our educational community in a positive direction. He serves on the districtwide Facilities Master Plan, is the assistant State High ice hockey coach, and serves as a Cub Scout leader. Leous is equally vested in quality education for all children as well as his own, who will be involved in the district for many years to come. He works well with people he agrees and disagrees with, always maintaining respect for everyone’s opinion.
Cindy Carpenter State College
Restore common sense
On Nov. 3, Centre County voters will decide who will serve as their district attorney for the next four years.
Voters should ask whether they want to continue to have a DA who was so fixated on charges against a newspaper photographer that he failed to file timely charges against a rape suspect to keep him from fleeing the country. We can watch four more years of disturbing headlines highlighting his errors in judgment or we can vote to restore common sense to the office.
I urge voters to join me in supporting Stacy Parks Miller for district attorney. She has more than 15 years of experience in criminal law and served as first assistant district attorney. She has the experience and temperament to restore common sense, judgment and leadership to the office.
Greg Stewart Ferguson Township
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