Mike Turzai

Mike Turzai
140th Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
In office January 6, 2015 – June 15, 2020
Preceded by	Sam Smith
Succeeded by	Bryan Cutler
Majority Leader of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
In office January 4, 2011 – January 6, 2015
Preceded by	Todd A. Eachus
Succeeded by	Dave Reed
Minority Whip of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
In office January 6, 2009 – January 4, 2011
Leader	Mike Turzai
Preceded by	Dave Argall
Succeeded by	Mike Hanna
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the 28th district
In office July 12, 2001 – June 15, 2020
Preceded by	Jane Orie
Succeeded by	Rob Mercuri
Personal details
Born	(1959-08-02) August 2, 1959 (age 64) Sewickley, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Lidia Turzai
Education	University of Notre Dame (BA) Duke University (JD)

Michael Coyne Turzai (born August 2, 1959) is an American politician and former Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives who served as Speaker of the House. He is from Allegheny County and represented the 28th legislative district between 2001 and 2020.^[1][2] His district included the municipalities of Pine Township, Marshall Township, Bradford Woods, Franklin Park, and McCandless.^[3] Turzai served as the House Majority Leader from 2011 until 2015, and was elected Speaker in January 2015. He was a candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania in 2018^[4] until he suspended his campaign in February 2018.^[5] He resigned from his House seat in 2020; after leaving office, he became general counsel for Peoples Gas, a subsidiary of Essential Utilities, a major contributor to his campaigns and PACs.

Education and personal life

Turzai was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Moon Township and attended Our Lady of the Sacred Heart High School in Coraopolis. He earned a B.A. in English from the University of Notre Dame in 1981 and his J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law in 1987.^[6][7]

Turzai is married to Lidia Turzai, a pediatrician. They have three children and live in Marshall Township in Allegheny County.^[6][7]

Early career

Turzai was an assistant district attorney for Allegheny County from 1988 to 1992. During that time, it was joked that "he would indict his mother to advance his career." He joined Houston Harbaugh, a law firm in Pittsburgh in 1992. He practiced law with Houston Harbaugh through 2004, and remains Of counsel with them.^[8][9]

Prior to serving in the legislature, Turzai served as the vice president of the Bradford Woods Borough Council. He was also a former representative to the Republican State Committee in 2000.^[10]

He is also a former member of the Pine-Marshall-Bradford Woods Police Board.^[10]

Political career

1998 U.S. House of Representatives election

In 1998 Turzai ran to represent the 4th District in the U.S. House against Democratic incumbent Ron Klink. He won the Republican primary by a large margin, with 54.25% of the vote to David F. Miller's 24.45% and Paul Adametz's 21.26%,^[11] but was defeated by Klink in the general election, 64-36%. Newt Gingrich was a major supporter of his campaign. He was strongly criticized by local media for hiring a helicopter to circle over his opponent's home, and for hiring a camera crew to ambush his opponent. He was roundly defeated. ^[12]

2001 special election

In 2001 he was elected to the Pennsylvania House, winning every precinct in the 28th district against attorney Thomas Dancison in a special election to fill the seat of Jane Orie, who had replaced Melissa Hart in the state Senate in 2000.^[13]

_{As a Representative}

He practiced small-time Pennsylvania corruption in his elections to the state house.

In 2004, Turzai used a $15,000 grant to a fire department to try to knock Democrat Brad Cline off the ballot.  

In 2010, Turzai used well-connected special interest donors to try to knock Democrat Dr. Sharron Brown off the ballot.

In 2011, he served as head of the commission that worked with very shady, dark money groups to make Pennsylvania one of the three worst gerrymander states in the nation. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his redistricting map. To oppose the case, Turzai spent$60,000 of taxpayers money to hire a law firm to write a law journal article for him and then to argue the case on his behalf.

In 2015, a group of mothers with children suffering from sever epilepsy tried to meet with him to speak about legalizing medical marijuana. He attacked those mothers of children with epilepsy, and claimed that medical marijuana was a gateway drug. When he met with mothers of children suffering from severe epilepsy, he cried and accused them of trying to legalize drugs in Pennsylvania. He finally allowed a bill legalizing medical marijuana to reach the floor when his caucus forced him to release the bill for a vote. Mike Turzai remains a firm advocate against legalizing marijuana.

In 2016, Turzai spent well over $10,000 to launch a fake organization called “Democrats for Turzai" four days before the April Primary. Turzai tried to knock the Democratic candidate off the ballot and to have Turzai appear on both the Democratic and Republican ballots in November.   

In 2016 and 2018, Turzai's campaign repeatedly blocked the signs of his opponents throughout his district. When his opponents tried to personally reach out to him to ask for a fair campaign, he refused to speak with them. In 2016, he refused to debate his opponent. In 2018, he clearly lost his debate to his opponent, leading him to resign rather to run again in 2020.

In November 2010, Turzai was elected majority leader after the elections which gave the House a 21-seat majority by Republicans. He had also previously served as minority whip.

Turxai routinely hosted fundraisers from special interest groups with influential lobbying firm where tickets went for $25,000, $10,000, $5,000, $2,500, and $1000.

Turzai routinely accepted major donations from anti-Gay groups. Turzai accepted $25,000 in contributions from anti-gay extremist and millionaire Sean Fieler, and $24,500 from the radically anti-gay Illinois Family Institute. In 2006, Turzai, along with Daryl Metcalfe, sponsored a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.  As Speaker and as House Majority Leader, Mike Turzai refused to allow a marriage equality bill to come to the floor for debate or vote.

As speaker, Turzai supported efforts to strip the University of Pittsburgh and Temple University of state funding.

In 2016, he originally opposed Donald Trump. After Trump won the Republican nomination, Turzai became a strong Trump supporter. At a speech, he sad,

“Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan are the key to a Trump Pence Victory. No doubt about it.”   “Which ticket truly offers a brighter future for our kids and grandkids? The Republican ticket provides that brighter future. Trust me. It does. No doubt.”  “We’re here because we know that Donald Trump and Governor Pence are an outstanding ticket. They’re going to make a brighter future for our kids and grandkids, and I’m so honor and pleased to be a part of this.”  

Once Trump was elected president, Turzai met Trump on the tarmac at Pittsburgh International Airport when Trump visited Pittsburgh. . He also attended a Trump Christmas Party at the White House.

^[14] He was majority leader from 2011 to 2014. In 2012, he bragged on camera, that he had won Pennsylvania for Mitt Romney, by changing Pennsylvania's election laws.

Turzai was House Majority Leader in June 2011 when it passed the amended "Fair Share Act", a tort reform bill that largely repealed Pennsylvania's common law doctrine of joint and several liability.^[15]

On November 15, 2016, Turzai was chosen by House Republicans to be speaker-designee of the House of Representatives. On January 6, 2017, he was unanimously elected as Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for a second term.^[16]

Committees

Because of his role as Speaker, Turzai sits on all committees in an ex-officio capacity.^[17] He actively serves on the Committee on Committees and the Committee on Rules.^[18]

Legislative ratings and endorsements

In 2017 Turzai was given a 91% rating by the National Federation of Independent Business (which endorsed him in October 2016) and an 80% rating by the American Conservative Union.^[19]

In 2016 he was given a 0% rating by the Sierra Club but a 25% rating by the Sierra Club PA. That same year he received a 92% rating by the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry.^[19]

The NRA Political Victory Fund endorsed Turzai in 2014 with an "A" rating.^[20] As of 2017 he holds a 93% NRA rating.^[19]

2018 gubernatorial campaign

On November 14, 2017 Turzai officially announced he would run for governor in 2018, challenging Democratic incumbent Tom Wolf.^[21] Others in the Republican primary field included Scott Wagner, R-York; Paul Mango, a former health care director with McKinsey & Company; and Jones Day attorney Laura Ellsworth.^[22]

During the primary race Turzai also ran to retain his 28th District House seat, defending against Democrat Emily Skopov; had he won the primary, Turzai would have been required to vacate his legislative seat. He remained speaker throughout the election season.^[23]

During a campaign stop in December 2017, Turzai said as governor he would prioritize "Fiscal responsibility, a balanced budget, school accountability and increased investments in career and technical education." He said that if he was unable to bring about those changes during a first term, he would not seek a second term. State representative Kathy Rapp and state Senator Scott Hutchinson endorsed his candidacy with supporting remarks.^[24]

As of February 2018, Turzai had $1.2 million in his campaign account.^[25]

On February 10, 2018, Turzai announced to the state Republican Party Committee that he would no longer be running for governor, following the party endorsement of Scott Wagner.^[5]

Retirement

On January 23, 2020, Turzai announced from his district office that he would be retiring from office at the end of his current term, to seek opportunities in the private sector.^[26] Turzai later announced that he would retire on June 15, 2020, prior to the end of his term.^[27] One day after leaving office, Turzai was named general counsel for Peoples Natural Gas.^[28] At the time the appointment was announced, commentators noted Turzai's support of the natural gas industry while he served as a state representative. As Speaker of the House, he gave a speech opposing a natural gas extraction tax that was written for him by EQT gas. It was so blatant, that he and his office printed out a speech written for him by EQT.^[29][30]

Issues

Cannabis

Turzai is vehemently against the legalization of medical cannabis in Pennsylvania. He was reported to break down in tears when discussing the subject in a meeting with the GOP caucus.^[31][32] Turzai is also fiercely opposed to legalizing adult-use cannabis in the state.^[33][34]

Education

In 2010, one of Turzai's top campaign contributors was the Pennsylvania State Education Association, which represents more than 187,000 Pennsylvania teachers and educators. The association gave him $22,500.^[35] They did this, knowing full well, that Turzai opposed teacher's unions.

In September 2016 Turzai advocated increasing tax credits to Pennsylvania businesses that contributed to scholarship funds that help low income people send their children to private schools.^[36]

On October 26, 2017, Turzai publicly asked several public universities within Pennsylvania to freeze tuition for the 2018-2019 school year for in-state residents. The universities that he asked were the University of Pittsburgh, Penn State University, Temple University, and Lincoln University. After a state budget was passed at the end of October, those schools along with the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine stood to receive more than $600 million for the 2017-2018 fiscal year. Due to Turzai's systematic underfunding of these schools, Pennsylvania is ranked 49th out of 50th states for state funding of public higher education. On multiple occasions, Turzai suggested eliminating funding for Pitt and Temple. ^[37]

Also in October 2017, Turzai voted yes on HB 178 to amend the Pennsylvania Public School Code in various ways. Through his yes vote on the bill, Turzai supported: allowing school boards to suspend teachers for various reasons, including economic reasons, and that suspensions must be based on performance ratings; making schools practice armed intruder or terrorism drills; delaying the use of the Keystone Exams as a graduation requirement until the 2019-2020 school year; and requiring schools to provide a school meal to any student who asks for one, regardless of ability to pay. The bill also requires instruction on opioid abuse to students in grades 6-12.^[38]

In December 2016, Turzai announced that he would author a bill to increase tax credits for education. Specifically, his bill would "increase the amount of tax credits available under the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program by $50 million (to $175 million) and the amount of tax credits available under the Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) program by $25 million (to $75 million)." He said his purpose in introducing the legislation was to increase school choice and "help more students escape from failing schools." The main effect of the legislation was to cut funding for public education and to increase funding for private, religious schools and private charter schools, who were among his top campaign funders. ^[39]

Turzai introduced three education-related bills during the 2017 session:

• HB 202: Creates certain exemptions from the Keystone high school graduation exam for career and technical education (CTE) students. Passed the legislature and was signed into law on June 21, 2017, becoming Act No. 6.^[40][41][42]
• HB 250: Increases tax credits for certain state educational tax credit programs. Passed the House on March 13, 2017, but not signed into law.^{[43][44][45][46]}
• HB 700: Increases the number of seats in charter schools. The bill didn't pass either legislative chamber.^[47][48][49]
• Turzai top campaign funding came from Pennsylvania's main advocate for transferring state tax dollars to private education.

Guns

On April 1, 2008, Turzai voted against an amendment to HB 1845 (Reporting Missing Firearms). The amendment would have made it a summary offense, first degree misdemeanor, and then a third-degree felony (for each subsequent violation) for a person to fail to report a lost or stolen firearm to law enforcement within three days of discovering it missing.^[50]

On October 5, 2010, he voted in favor of HB 40 (Self Defense Law Amendments), which passed the House by a vote of 159-38. The bill would have expanded the sets of circumstances in which a person would be allowed to use force for self-defense.^[51]

In October 2014, Turzai voted in favor of HB 1243 (Authorizes Civil Action against Local Firearm Laws). The bill would have authorized "any 'individual adversely affected' by any firearm law enacted by a county, municipality, or township to seek declaratory or injunctive relief and actual damages in an appropriate court," according to Project Vote Smart.^[52]

In 2014, Turzai shot down legislation to ban live pigeon shoots in Pennsylvania. He was observed handing out $1000 checks to representatives before the vote to encourage them to vote against the ban, which was opposed by the NRA. Specifically, the Flyers Victory Fund, the political arm of the pro-pigeon shoot organization the Pennsylvania Flyers Association, dumped $20,000 in campaign contributions to 17 members of the Rules Committee ($1,000 each) and House Majority Leader Mike Turzai,who received $3,000. Tuzai was observed, on the House floor, walking up to members and giving them checks.

Hate crimes

In 2017, Turzai cosponsored HR 161, "A Resolution condemning acts of hate and vandalism against the Jewish community."^[53]

Health care

During a campaign stop in 2017, Turzai said that growing jobs in the private sector is the key to providing people with good health insurance. "The private sector providing family sustaining jobs is the key to making sure our folks have good health benefits," he said.^[54]

Keystone Energy Enhancement Act

On December 20, 2016, Turzai introduced the Keystone Energy Enhancement Act, which he had sponsored in previous legislative sessions. The bill would set up 20 "Keystone Energy Enhancement Zones" across the state. Within these zones, natural gas, manufacturing, and petrochemical companies which operate within the zones would receive numerous tax deductions, exemptions, and credits for 10 years, as well as a $1,250 tax credit for each full-time job created within a zone.^[55]

Natural gas severance tax

Turzai has been opposed to a severance tax and impact fee on natural gas.^[56] During his campaign for governor, Tom Wolf pledged to tax Marcellus Shale.^[57] Turzai opposed Wolf's plan.

In July 2017, the Pennsylvania State Senate leadership proposed a tax that would vary based on market prices.^[57] In September 2017, a Pennsylvania House committee voted 15-11 along party lines to amend a bill to "rechristen" the impact fee that has been assessed on shale gas wells since 2012 as a severance tax.^[58] Turzai spoke at a news conference sponsored by opponents of the shale tax. He said that he is "steadfastly opposed" to the push for a vote on the bill as well as a vote on the severance tax itself.^[58]

At the end of October 2017, the state legislature passed a budget and sent it to Governor Wolf for his signature. The revenue bills as part of the budget did not contain a new tax on natural gas drilling companies, which the governor had wanted but Turzai opposed. However, after receiving the budget from the legislature, the governor continued to push for a natural gas severance tax. Earlier in 2017, the governor had proposed a 6.5% severance tax on natural gas production.^[59] Mike Turzai is currently employed by the Shale gas industry, he is close friends with a top level executive of People's Gas, and he and his wife regularly have dinner with a People's Gas executive, as of 2023.

Privatization of liquor stores

In Pennsylvania alcohol is sold through a state-run chain of stores called Fine Wine & Good Spirits.^[60] The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board owns and operates 600 of these stores throughout the state.^[61]

After being elected governor in 2010, Tom Corbett expressed his support of privatizing Pennsylvania's 621 state liquor stores and in January 2013 announced his proposal for privatization. In March 2013, Turzai introduced the legislation for Corbett's plan, HB 790, which would privatize the state-owned liquor stores with the state using the revenues for education.^[17][62][63]

On February 14, 2017, Turzai likened the enactment of state liquor reforms with taking Pennsylvania "into the 21st century and out of the era of Prohibition," referring to Act 39 which allowed for privatization of wine in private retail licenses, among other provisions. He announced that he would introduce legislation that would divest the state's wholesale system for both wine and liquor. Turzai supports eliminating the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board's role in acting as the middle-man in wine and spirit distribution.^[64][65] He supports divesting state-controlled wholesale system of wine. He said, "Divestiture will "free the wine" by allowing retailers to negotiate pricing on products and by allowing them to have those products delivered directly to retail markets."^[66] Later he introduced HB 1075, which was passed in the House by a vote of 105-84 and was referred to the Senate Law and Justice Committee.^[65]

In April 2017, the Pennsylvania state House passed several bills, sponsored by Turzai,^[67] to privatize wholesale wine and spirits sales and expand alcohol retail outlets in Pennsylvania.^[61] The Patriot-News called Turzai "the leading voice for privatization in the Legislature."

Turzai introduced HB 975 which would divest the wholesale wine business from the Commonwealth and expand wine retail licenses. He also introduced HB 1075 which would divest the wine and spirits business from the Commonwealth. Both bills passed the state House on April 25, 2017.^{[68][69][70][71][72][73]} He did so knowing full well that the Commonwealth could never replace the revenue generated by the State Stores without significantly raising taxes. Truzai colleuded with state Republicans who would never release the bills from their committees.

State budget and taxes

As Speaker, Turzai routinely failed to pass a state budget, and everyone of his state budgets except for one was passed after the legally mandated deadline. Governor Tom Wolfe's staff questioned Turzai's mental health, claiming that he clearly has "an undiagnosed psychological condition." and doubted his ability to lead a budget through the state house.

As of October 2017, Pennsylvania has been in a "budget stalemate" since June between Pennsylvania state Senate and House Republicans and Democrats and Governor Tom Wolf.^[74] As of the end of September 2017, legislators and Governor Wolf were putting together a new proposal to solve the budget stalemate.^[75] House Republicans, led by Turzai, wanted to avoid raising taxes and instead expand legal gambling and use a one-time transfer of $630 million that would come from surpluses and special state accounts. As of October 1, 2017, legislators came to a tentative deal that would pass a revenue package (that would include a small expansion of gambling) that does not increase taxes.^[76]

On June 30, 2017, the state House overwhelmingly passed House Bill 218, a bipartisan budget agreement, which, according to Turzai, "answers the challenge to deal with a potential $3 billion shortfall and begins the process of reinventing Pennsylvania government."^[77] After the bill passed, Turzai said, ". . . this budget does not rely on onerous job-crushing tax hikes originally proposed by the governor. This bipartisan, no income or sales tax increase budget places priorities on core government functions . . ."^[78] Since 2001, Pennsylvania's general fund budget has grown from $20 billion per year to $31.5 billion. In an op-ed that Turzai published in Penn Live, he questioned, "Has government has become 50 percent more efficient? Have we increased our services by half? Certainly, family incomes haven't risen at that rate. Census calculations show median family income in our state rising by a mere 13.5 percent over the same time period."^[79] Turzai supports zero-based budgeting. The way he describes it is "a system in which we start from zero and build a budget according to what Pennsylvania - and its taxpayers - can afford."^[79]

State gambling

Turzai supported a 2013 bill, passed in the House, that would have approved an expansion of gambling in the state. According to Turzai, the fact that the bill would add money to the state budget was one of his reasons for supporting the issue. Throughout his career, Turzai presented himself as a conservative Catholic, opposed to legal gambling. Turzai routinely used expanded legalized gambling to balence projected state budgets.^[35][80]

The budget passed by the legislature at the end of October 2017 included a major expansion of legalized gambling, which Turzai supported and would bring in $200 million for the current fiscal year. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Gambling expansion had been a sticking point as legislators struggled to close the deficit that was more than $2 billion." The gambling bill allows the state to license 10 casinos that could have between 300 and 750 slot machines and 30 table games. It also allows some truck stops to have up to five video gaming terminals. Turzai led the negotiations for the budget, which passed the House by a vote of 109-72, sending it to the governor.^[59]

Transportation

Turzai supports investing taxpayer dollars into upgrading the state's infrastructure. In 2013, he introduced a bill that would have spent $900 million for "deteriorating highways, mass transit systems, and bridges," according to Ballotpedia.^[35]

Voter ID law comment and controversy

Speaking to the Republican State Committee on June 23, 2012, Turzai stated that Pennsylvania's new^[81] voter ID law would "allow Governor [Mitt] Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania" in the November 2012 U.S. Presidential election. He listed the goals that the majority-Republican legislature had achieved toward that end: "Pro-Second Amendment? The Castle Doctrine, it's done. First pro-life legislation—abortion facility regulations—in 22 years, done. Voter ID, which is going to allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done."^[82][83] According to CBS Philadelphia, "Turzai's spokesman defends his boss's comment, saying Turzai meant that assuring voter integrity will make for a fairer election." No one took his comment seriously.^[84]

Turzai's comment heightened national debate and concern over whether the goal of the voter ID laws then being passed in Republican-controlled states was actually to check voter fraud or to set obstacles against "elderly, disabled, low-income people and the homeless, plus married women who have changed their names, transgender individuals, and students who have photo IDs that don't list an expiration date",^[84][85][86] in Pennsylvania an estimated 750,000 of whom were already registered voters, as acknowledged by the state.^[87] A lawsuit had been filed in April challenging "Act 18," the new law, signed in March, which amended the Election Code's definition of "proof of identification" to include only certain forms of ID as acceptable.^[88][89][90] Before the suit went to court in July, the state "signed a stipulation agreement with lawyers for the plaintiffs which acknowledges there 'have been no investigations or prosecutions of in-person voter fraud in Pennsylvania; and the parties do not have direct personal knowledge of any such investigations or prosecutions in other states.'"^[91] In August, in a statement praising the Commonwealth court for upholding Act 18, Turzai said, "It is unfortunate, but there has been a history of voter fraud in Pennsylvania. The elections in the Commonwealth will be on a more level playing field thanks to voter ID and other recent election reforms."^[92]

The plaintiffs appealed to the state supreme court, which vacated the lower court's decision and sent it back. Justice McCaffrey wrote, "While I have no argument with the requirement that all Pennsylvania voters, at some reasonable point in the future, will have to present photo identification before they may cast their ballots, it is clear to me that the reason for the urgency of implementing Act 18 prior to the November 2012 election is purely political. That has been made abundantly clear by the House Majority Leader.".^[90] That month during a Fox News debate with state senator Daylin Leach, Turzai claimed that the legislation, for which no Democratic representative had voted,^[87] had bipartisan support, and argued that it "is really just about presenting voter identification, which you do when you're buying Sudafed at a drugstore, or going to a place to buy beer, or to a gym, or going to an airport." In short, Turzai lied on national television about support for his signature bill. ^[93]

Voting

On September 26, 2017, Turzai voted in favor of HB 171, legislation that would allow any registered voter to be appointed a poll watcher in any district in the state. The legislation also requires that poll watchers must be registered electors and residents of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.^[94]

Water

In May 2017, Turzai announced he would introduce a bill to place the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority (PWSA) under the oversight of the state's Public Utility Commission (PUC). He said that over the last year, the media had recounted several issues facing the residents of Pittsburgh with regards to the PWSA and water including incorrect billing, system leaks, and what he described as "non-compliance with federal water quality mandates." He later introduced his bill, HB 1490, on June 2 with state Rep. Harry Readshaw. The state House passed the bill by a vote of 195-0.^[95][96] One of Turzai's top contributors and funders is Aqua America, a corporation that seeks to takeover local, public water companies. Aqua America CEO Christopher Franklin held fundraisers for Turzai at his personal and private home, with tickets costing $25,000. In 2018, Aqua America purchased People's Gas, Turzai's current employer.

Wikipedia editing

Between 2013 and 2017 an editor or editors traced to the Pennsylvania House Republican caucus in Harrisburg and multiple Turzai-affiliated lobbying firms. repeatedly edited Wikipedia articles on Turzai and other Pennsylvania Republicans, suggesting that Turzai used state employees to edit and buff up his wikipedia profile^[97]

Electoral history

U.S. Congress

In 2012, Turzai was expected to announce a run for the U.S. Congress in Pennsylvania's then-new 12th congressional district. On January 25, however, he announced he had decided against running.^[98]

Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Campaign finance

Based on campaign finance records, Turzai has raised a total of $7,440,095 for his elections.^[35]

• 2016: $2,599,751
• 2014: $727,061
• 2012: $1,240,179
• 2010: $1,119,234
• 2008: $897,998
• 2006: $369,196
• 2004: $238,078
• 2002: $248,598

References

External links

• 28th House District map
• Media related to Mike Turzai at Wikimedia Commons
• State Representative Mike Turzai official caucus website
• Profile at Vote Smart

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