REPUBLICAN
Residence: Julian
News-Politics-District Attorney Race
Q: Why should Centre County voters elect you as their district attorney for the next four years?
Q: What legislation, if any, would you like to see state government enact to make the judicial system operate more effectively?
Q: What are the biggest challenges a district attorney faces in her or his relations with police officers?
Q: What motivated you to become an attorney in the first place, and then to concentrate on criminal law?
Q: What are the most important skills for a district attorney to have? Why?
Q: The CQ Press says Centre County in 2008 had the second-lowest crime rate of 338 metropolitan areas in the nation. A Princeton Review survey ranked Penn State as the top party school this year among 371 colleges and universities. Do Centre County's education-oriented economy and high concentration of young people pose special challenges to a district attorney? Explain.
Q: Describe how your temperament helps make you an effective prosecutor?
Q: How has your experience in the judicial system prepared you to be Centre County’s top law enforcement officer for the next four years?
Q: What are the most important issues for district attorney candidates to discuss ahead of the Nov. 3 general election?
DEMOCRAT
Residence: State College
Q: Why should Centre County voters elect you as their district attorney for the next four years?
Q: What legislation, if any, would you like to see state government enact to make the judicial system operate more effectively?
Q: What are the biggest challenges a district attorney faces in her or his relations with police officers?
Q: What motivated you to become an attorney in the first place, and then to concentrate on criminal law?
Q: What are the most important skills for a district attorney to have? Why?
Q: The CQ Press says Centre County in 2008 had the second-lowest crime rate of 338 metropolitan areas in the nation. A Princeton Review survey ranked Penn State as the top party school this year among 371 colleges and universities. Do Centre County's education-oriented economy and high concentration of young people pose special challenges to a district attorney? Explain.
Q: Describe how your temperament helps make you an effective prosecutor?
Q: How has your experience in the judicial system prepared you to be Centre County’s top law enforcement officer for the next four years?
Q: What are the most important issues for district attorney candidates to discuss ahead of the Nov. 3 general election?
CDT/Michelle Bixby
State College attorney Stacy Parks Miller swept to victory in the Centre County district attorney race Tuesday, capturing nearly two thirds of the vote to unseat incumbent Michael Madeira.
BELLEFONTE — The two losing Democratic district attorney candidates in the spring primary election said Thursday they plan to vote for incumbent Republican Michael Madeira in Tuesday's general election.
RACE FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY
PATTON TOWNSHIP — Centre County district attorney candidates Michael Madeira and Stacy Parks Miller sparred Wednesday before a Patton Township business audience, as Madeira talked up his record during the past four years and Parks Miller assailed it.
To his quest for re-election as Centre County district attorney, Michael Madeira brings an outgoing personality, impassioned speech and an assertion that the county has never been safer.
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