Preview: Erie County Council
Erie County voters will settle three council primaries tomorrow, including two challenges to sitting incumbents.
Erie County voters will settle three council primaries tomorrow, including two challenges to sitting incumbents.
If ever a four-way election was anyone’s guess, this is it. Four men vie to replace retiring Councilman Frank DiCicco
Kenyatta Johnson is the front-runner with institutional support, but Barbara Capozzi has the campaign cash and ground game to make this race a fight.
In a year, Linda Thompson has gone from powerhouse to albatross. And that’s great news for the incumbents the Mayor would love to see beaten: Susan Brown Wilson and Brad Koplinski.
This 7th district rematch pits former councilman Dan Savage, with the support of the traditional political class in Philly (ward leaders and unions), against incumbent Maria Quinones-Sanchez and the rising Hispanic political community.
A bevy of 1am robocalls has an incumbent commissioner calling for an investigation of the the local Republican committee. It’s just another day in Cumberland County GOP politics.
PoliticsPA begins its Primary 2011 coverage; Governor Corbett’s surgery means Jim Cawley is in charge for a day; phony robocalls stir up Cumberland County GOP primary; Huck’s present to Our Rick; and a backlog of campaign finance reports clogs the Dept of State.
In his Sunday column, Philadelphia Inquirer columnist and nationally syndicated radio host Michael Smerconish reviews the Republican dominance of 30+ years of Keystone State attorney general elections and wonders if former Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy can crack the code.
Mike Huckabee just made Rick Santorum’s night. The popular former Governor of Arkansas announced tonight his decision not to run for President in 2012, freeing up an important bloc of GOP primary voters – those to whom opposition to abortion and gay marriage are key issues.
Governor Corbett will undergo routine back surgery to treat spinal stenosis, a form of pressure on the spinal cord caused by the aging process, the Governor’s office announced on Friday.
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Total Voters: 30