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Josh Shapiro is the ‘bar mitzvah boy’ leading the charge against Catholic clergy abuse in Pennsylvania

Written by Emma Needleman | Aug 29, 2018 7:08:47 PM

The first days of November 2016 were a tense time for America, for Pennsylvania and for Josh Shapiro, a Democrat running for attorney general in a state that looked like it might go red.

Looking to succeed a corrupt member of his own party who had resigned in disgrace, Shapiro might have been expected to spend every second of the campaign’s final days trying to get out the vote.