The May 17th primaries for the Republican mayoral candidate and Democratic City Council Second District seat will remain unresolved until next week after the absentee ballots are recorded and the official vote count is finished.
In anticipation of Monday’s budget vote in the PA House, PA Democrats are working to steer the conversation. The party held individual press conferences to lay out the party’s preemptive response in Montgomery and Allegheny counties, two of PA’s biggest 2011 battlegrounds.
It’s tough to say how often foreign policy issues decide a county commissioner race in PA, but Montgomery County Commissioner candidates Bruce Castor and Jenny Brown are giving it a try.
PoliticsPA has learned that the PA GOP will send about a dozen staffers to help their New York counterparts in another sign that the hotly contested NY-26 special election has national implications.
“Do you know who I am? I am the secretary of health!” Eli Avila announced during an argument with the owner of Roxy’s Diner. Soon after the diner was paid a visit by the city health inspectors.
PA unemployment drops, Boockvar inches ahead, and passive-aggressiveness in Philly D2.
Rick Santorum has clarified some of the comments he made about John McCain. Sen. Toomey gave another speech about his deficit reduction plan. Jim Cawley is settling back into his role as Lieutenant Governor because Gov. Corbett is out of the hospital and says he is feeling better. The Philly papers are speculating about what the Nutter agenda will look like in his all-but-assured 2nd term. The Philly writers also prognosticate who might run in 2015.
The Pennsylvania Democratic Party can start to breath a sigh of relief. Their endorsed candidate, Bucks County Attorney Kathryn Boockvar, appears to be on the verge of victory over Pittsburgh Attorney Barbara Ernsberger.
Rich Fitzgerald won with 66,123 votes to Mark Flaherty’s 52,558. With 56% of the vote, Fitzgerald was clearly favored by 12% more of the county’s voters.
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