{"id":39813,"date":"2024-01-26T08:31:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T13:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=39813"},"modified":"2024-01-26T08:31:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T13:31:40","slug":"county-democrats-announce-2024-endorsements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=39813","title":{"rendered":"County Democrats announce 2024 endorsements"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"Chester County’s Democratic Party incumbents for state Senate and House seats were all endorsed at Wednesday night’s endorsement convention leading up to the April 23 Primary Election. Only two of the General Assembly races were contested, with the 155th District’s incumbent Danielle Friel Otten receiving endorsement, and Elizabeth Moro receiving endorsement for the 160th District seat.<\/p>\n

The PA Democratic State Committee had previously endorsed President Joe Biden and Pennsylvania’s senior Senator Bob Casey and voted to endorse state Representative Malcolm Kenyatta as the state’s Auditor General and state Representative Ryan Bizzarro for state Treasurer. An endorsement was not reached by PA State Committee for the office of Attorney General.<\/p>\n

The following endorsements were reached at the Chester County Democratic Committee (CCDC) endorsement convention: 3-term Congresswoman Chrissy Houlahan (US 6th District) was unanimously endorsed and, for state Attorney General, Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer received the endorsement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Democratic Committee Persons or their proxies heard from candidates during the meeting\u00a0and made their recommendations using digital voting.<\/p>\n

After welcoming the more than 300\u00a0voting committee members and guests,\u00a0Chairwoman Charlotte Valyo began by\u00a0identifying the state and US legislative races that are not contested,\u00a0requesting and receiving party endorsement by acclamation for those nominated. She went on to say “The Chester County Democratic Committee once again has a fully endorsed\u00a0slate and, as in the past, the slate is qualified, experienced, and strong. We look forward to successful Primary and General elections in 2024.”<\/p>\n

The full slate of endorsed candidates includes (incumbents*):<\/p>\n

US President:\u00a0 \u00a0Joe Biden*<\/p>\n

US Senate:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Bob Casey*<\/p>\n

US Congress:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Chrissy Houlahan*<\/p>\n

9th\u00a0Senate:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0John Kane*<\/p>\n

19th Senate:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Carolyn Comitta*<\/p>\n

13th House:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Cristian Luna<\/p>\n

26th House:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Paul Friel*<\/p>\n

74th House:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Dan Williams*<\/p>\n

155th House:\u00a0 \u00a0Danielle Friel Otten*<\/p>\n

156th House:\u00a0 \u00a0Chris\u00a0Pielli*<\/p>\n

157th House:\u00a0 \u00a0Melissa Shusterman*<\/p>\n

158th House:\u00a0 \u00a0Christina Sappey*<\/p>\n

160th House:\u00a0 \u00a0Elizabeth Moro<\/p>\n

167th House:\u00a0 \u00a0Kristine Howard*<\/p>\n

Attorney General:\u00a0 \u00a0Jack Stollsteimer<\/p>\n

Auditor:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Malcolm Kenyatta<\/p>\n

Treasurer:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Ryan Bizzarro<\/p>\n

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Tuesday, April 23 is the Pennsylvania Primary. The last day for residents to register to vote for the primary is April 8. The last day to apply for a mail-in ballot from Chester County Voter Services is April 16.\u00a0The General Election is Tuesday, November 5.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chester County’s Democratic Party incumbents for state Senate and House seats were all endorsed at Wednesday night’s endorsement convention leading up to the April 23 Primary Election. Only two of the General Assembly races were contested, with the 155th District’s incumbent Danielle Friel Otten receiving endorsement, and Elizabeth Moro receiving endorsement for the 160th District […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[138,224,14633,2924,6269],"class_list":["post-39813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chester-county","tag-democrats","tag-election-2024","tag-endorsements","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39814,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39813\/revisions\/39814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}