Daniel Wassmer

I'm an attorney and an educator with over 30 years of practical experience as an attorney. I've served as an attorney in a variety of capacities and have also worked as an adjunct college professor for approximately 19 years. As a college educator I have instructed in both a paralegal program as well as in management classes. In addition, I am a proud member of the AFT. Similarly I served as an FOP counsel in NY (more on "real police reforms" later). My legal experience is diverse. I have represented: individuals, unions, businesses, hospitals, and have formerly served as a assistant county solicitor to Bucks County PA. In addition I formerly served as an uncompensated State Commissioner and appointee of Governor Tom Ridge to the bi-state agency known as the DRJTBC. I have two grown children and care for an elderly mother. I am also the only candidate who is a zealous advocate for the second amendment and unlike the "R" candidate will actually represent and promote safe gun interests. As both a teacher as well as a firearm conceal carry licensee I advocate for permitting teachers to protect our children in school by allowing "willing/trained teachers" to conceal carry as a practical means of stopping threats to our children. Notwithstanding my affiliation with unions, police and gun advocacy I can guaranty that I wont be endorsed by a single 1. With two minority children I also understand race issues and offer a unique perspective on all.

• Stop treating issues as if they are independent. Life has relationships and so do our issues. Thinking of policies in terms of sorted little boxes simply isn't realistic.
• I'm here to listen and build concensus. I am not an authoritarian and never want to be. Two parties collectively picking sides while working against the people is a major injustice to everyone.
• Stop being "played" by political cronies. Having been formerly affiliated with both R's and D's I can blatantly state that their manipulation of our system of governement needs to change. We need to restore government to the people of this county.

I will fall back on the metaphor of bridges. That is what we all should be striving for. As an individual who values our Bill of Rights I am appalled by how both the Republican and Democratic parties seem to view our individual "liberties" as some type of menu that they can order off of. The utter stifling of first amendment rights in this country is atrocious. The use of our court system and manipulation of government resources to do it is even more appalling.

Everyone in this country ought to feel that they equally enjoy the freedoms which we are endowed with to make our own responsible decisions and fulfill our dreams. The impediments of government have driven us apart and the flagrant "power grabs" by both parties when viewed objectively is horrific. America needs to honestly become a country where all people are valued not a select few. People in this country need to become self reliant and stop viewing government as a savior when in reality it is an inhibitor.

Government needs to get out of the way of individuals and stop imposing arbitrary restrictions upon people literally to protect political favorites! A case in point? The failed war on drugs. We incarcerate poor people who self medicate or support those habits while enriching well positioned "licensees" who are also selling drugs? A poor minority neighborhood is ripped apart by drug dealing while a wealthy area has a well respected dispensary licensee? Seriously? This is America?

The office covers every role of government and unfortunately the abuses within that office have a huge impact. I'm tired of another administration of abuses and you should be also. Both parties have used this office for political "hit jobs" and enough is enough. Both parties are loaded with people ripping off the citizens and enough is enough!

Look for a minute at what is happening with social media. Both parties are attempting to vilify America's largest tech companies in a world where "we" get to communicate with each other and are literally extorting money via paid lobbyist to fill their campaign coffers. Objectively this is a joke right out of the novel 1984. Infringing on free speech? Literally attempting to control speech. Cut me a break.

We have had the PA State Democratic Party (with the blessing of Josh Shapiro) use the courts specifically to hinder free and fair elections and Republican Heather Heidelbaugh proudly states that she was a person who authored a piece called "Protecting the Integrity of the Polling Place: A Constitutional Defense of Poll Watcher Statutes!" Seriously?

I want these "vote hindering, anti-participation, dirtbags" both vanquished! This is America not Communist China. If they want to live in a totalitarian state they ought to go to China and enjoy. These people are literally garbage.....

It means the National Association of Attorney General's is exceeding their authority. The entire system is full of corruption and honestly fixing any of this? Is a long arduous proposition that cant be done without a hall monitor when two parties run amuck.

As an individual who was an FOP attorney and was given the latitude to actually set up a bi-state "police force" on DRJTBC bridges how about we stop referring to them as "police" and start referring to them as "peace officers". Secondly the first real thing that needs to be done is to stop the code of silence which actually harms good police officers who are literally afraid to rat out bad cops. I have friends who are cops and I have talked to them about the George Floyd issue. Literally I was told by one that "he knew what he was getting when he was assigned to whom he would be patrolling on any given day". He stated he knew when there would be violence involved. What kind of country tolerates this? Literally cops are afraid to report their own. Where has our current AG been for the past 4 years? The other candidate from Allegheny County was an elected official and she is as silent on the issue. Give me a break!

Law enforcement should not serve as a human shield to an angry public. Law enforcement is not a prop to win votes with staged drug raids for press purposes. Anyone who fails to see the global issues involved here and even answers this question by saying they will do A or B literally should never hold this position.

Restoring trust to the office! [5 words says it all].

Actually telling the Federal government to enforce its own failed laws such as the failed war on drugs would be one of my major priorities. We now have so many laws on the books we literally need to stop enforcing laws and massively incarcerating people. Like I said earlier someone with a casino license becomes a major political donor but imagine you have an unlicensed "charity lottery". Give me a break! A poor "addicted" street corner drug dealer sell as nickel bag to support a habit while a licensed dispensary owner lists on the New York Stock Exchange and becomes a millionaire. Seriously?

People in this country need to see what this really is. We have allowed ourselves to be hoodwinked into a system of massive manipulation to see who gets protection and who doesn't. It's corrupt on so many levels!

I'm outraged and will use this office to call every inequity out and fight to end all this utter nonsense. Mass incarceration, prison issues, gang violence, police brutality, gun issues, immigration issues, flight from South and Central America, etc. - they are all related to the massive amounts of money literally wasted on this preposterous situation.

How about a different question such as "experience handling the problems of real people". We currently have an AG who has apparently from my research never set foot in a courtroom. How can an individual who has never dealt with a divorce have any idea what that entails. Politics? I worked with a guy who became the Lieutenant Governor of PA and my assessment of him was that he was a joke. I worked for a guy who became a Congressman and he wanted me to appeal a decision issued by the President Judge of the PA Supreme Court. Do I think "previous experience in government or politics" is important? I think using your brain is important.

Coincidentially - AG Shapiro never appears to have ever held a "private sector job". That to me is also important.

Martin Luther King Jr. - I am probably the only person currently running for this position who actively traced his path and his connections to our state. The man was a marvel and is an absolute national hero. It shocks me that in this day and age we still can not remedy the inequities of this country (mind you largely as a result of government policies). In a country which has the largest number of billionaires in the world we have a scant 5 or 6 black billionaires? That is a result of gross inquietude fostered by government policy which people refuse to even discuss. All of this literally is something a real Attorney General can actually do something about. Yet? Our current AG wants 4 more years and the prior AG who became our governor literally turned a blind eye to this also simply for "power"! Nonsense.

We need empowerment and self realization.

Martin Luther King, Jr's. lowest grade in seminary was "public speaking". Imagine that! The most powerful speaker of generations delivered the most powerful speech in American History. AND HE WASN'T A POLITICIAN!

Milton Friedman "Capital and Freedom" on economics, the movie "Burt Buzz" about Burt Shavitz (founder of Burt's Bees) on what is important in life, the documentary "the Pacifist" about my friend Larry Bassett on institutional violence [available on Prime] and "The Color of Law" by Richard Rothstein on how the government continued segregation and inequity in this country. And people may actually want to read their US Constitution and more specifically their Bill of Rights for a CHANGE.

Honesty, truthfulness and not hiding in big government buildings when people are angry. Listening and actually talking to people. Not using our "Peace Officers" as human shields. Fairness. Equity. Literally nothing I have witnessed in recent times......

Hard work, fairness and honesty. Treating people right.

It's a management position largely and honestly if the current AG were not there tomorrow I don't think it would matter one iota. What should happen and what does happen are two distinctly different things.

Leaving the world a better place would always be a nice idea.

The Kennedy assassination. (To avoid detailing my age online I will say that that occurred prior to reaching the age of 5). I also recall attending the NY World's Fair.

I stocked shelves and gathered shopping carts in a Waldbaum's Food Store supermarket in Garden City Park, NY commencing on the very first day I was able to work. I left the job when it began to affect my grades. Years later I realized that I was actually working more hours than I was permitted to work by law as a minor. I suppose that based upon my height the manager believed I was older than I was. To be honest that was so long ago I can't really recall how long I worked there. Nevertheless, I do believe it lasted for quite a bit of time. Prior to that I "helped" my father who was a self employed plumbing contractor in NY. I learned aboutr "sweating pipe fittings and threading pipe probably around the age of 12. I can honestly say I learned all about "hard work" at a quite early age. In fact, I have worked as a roofer, painter, bank teller, call center operator, etc.. at various times to help pay for my college education. Later on I also worked on Wall Street after working my way up from a bank teller. I also worked for National Westminster Bank USA for a period of time while also attending Law School full time (as a commuter student) and separately earned an MBA at night while working full time.

Ben Franklin's Autobiography - Practical.

Pulp Fiction - Mr. Wolf (because he "fixes problems") not to be confused with our Governor "King" Wolf who breaks and impairs things and doesn't try to fix things (unless we are talking about "elections").

Dark Necessities by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

That's a long story...... Like an honest person many things but I'm trying.....