Bob Casey Pros And Cons

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This paper will be focusing on Robert Casey better known as “Bob” Casey the Senator from Pennsylvania. Casey was born and raised on April 13, 1960, in Scranton Pennsylvania. Casey; “graduated from The College of the Holy Cross in 1982 and spent the following year teaching fifth grade and coaching eighth-grade basketball in inner city Philadelphia for the Jesuit Volunteer Corps”. (Senate.gov) Later on, he received his law degree from Catholic University in 1988. He married to his wife Teresa and has 4 children. In 2002 Casey wanted to follow his father into running for governor of Pennsylvania, however, he was defeated, later becoming the “treasurer” in the elections of 2004. Casey was first elected to the senate in 2006 as a Democrat, showing as one of the second highest victories since “1920” against an incumbent Senator. Later in 2012, he was re-elected becoming the first Democrat Senator into serving a full term and into being re-elected as a Pennsylvania Senator. Casey has become and followed the step of his father who was also a governor.

Starting to learn a little about Pennsylvania we can say that first, Thanks to the resources of Census.gov we can tell the demography composition of Pennsylvania. Starting with "12, 783, 227" of people living as estimated of July 1 of 2016. With a majority of "82.6%" of white alone, "11.7%" of Black or African American and Hispanic or Latino with a "6.8%". Another fact in terms of education and a reason of why Casey might be …show more content…

We can see that Casey is trying to be a senator who is very "Pro-life" and that is someone who cares about the benefits of children as he also has 4 children. at the same time, we learned that Casey is a senator who agrees with most of what his party believes, however, there’s also times when he doesn’t agree, getting the opinion of many as he is somewhat

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