{"id":127367,"date":"2024-02-13T17:46:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T22:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=127367"},"modified":"2024-02-13T17:46:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T22:46:22","slug":"mark-pinsley-calls-for-debates-in-pennsylvania-auditor-general-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=127367","title":{"rendered":"Mark Pinsley Calls for Debates in Pennsylvania Auditor General Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(Allentown, PA) &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Lehigh County Controller and Auditor General Candidate Mark Pinsley is calling for a series of three debates against Democratic primary challenger State Representative Malcolm Kenyatta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur elections shouldn\u2019t be determined by party insiders &#8211; they should be determined by the voters.\u201d Pinsley says. \u201cVoters deserve to know exactly how we plan to oversee a $48 billion dollar budget and how we plan to accomplish our goals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd based on Rep. Kenyatta\u2019s strong reaction to Senator Fetterman skipping the 2022 Primary debates, I would expect him to take me up on the offer,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>As Lehigh County Controller, Mark is the\u00a0only Democrat running for Auditor General who has done the job of auditor.\u00a0He\u00a0is ready to investigate powerful government agencies and industries, shining light on waste, fraud, and abuse.<\/p>\n<p>During Pinsley\u2019s tenure as Controller, he\u2019s identified ways to reduce county healthcare costs by $70 million over ten years &#8211; more than 23% of the county\u2019s total healthcare spend, advocated for dozens of children wrongly removed from their families by powerful hospital networks, promoted environmental sustainability and pushed to divest $140M of taxpayer money from big banks over their support of dangerous anti-choice candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Mark\u00a0has a history of winning tough races as the first Democrat elected in South Whitehall Township in over 20 years and flipping the Lehigh County Controller\u2019s Office from red to blue in 2019. Mark has investigated powerful institutions, including insurance companies, prisons, and hospitals. He will make the same commitment to the people of the Commonwealth \u2013 accountability and transparency.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Mark and his experience and priorities at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.votemarkpinsley.com\/\">VoteMarkPinsley.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Allentown, PA) &#8211;\u00a0Lehigh County Controller and Auditor General Candidate Mark Pinsley is calling for a series of three debates against Democratic primary challenger State Representative Malcolm Kenyatta. \u201cOur elections shouldn\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=127367\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mark Pinsley Calls for Debates in Pennsylvania Auditor General Primary<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/auditor-general.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}