Posted on 05/19/2022 4:11:56 AM PDT by cotton1706
Nearly a dozen incumbent lawmakers lost their re-election bids in Tuesday’s primary election including one, possibly two, long-time Republicans who hold top caucus leadership posts.
Rep. Stan Saylor of York County and Sen. Pat Browne of Lehigh County, both Republicans, serve as the majority chairman of the powerful appropriations committee in their respective chambers. In those roles, they review all legislation to determine its fiscal impact on taxpayers and play a role in helping to shape the state budget.
Saylor, who was first elected to the House in 1992, has served as the appropriations committee chairman since 2016. Prior to that, he served in two other leadership posts including whip and education committee chairman.
Browne, meanwhile, served in the House from 1995 to 2005 when he moved over to Senate. He was first elected to serve as its appropriations committee chairman in 2014. Prior to that, he served as whip and chaired several committees.
Saylor handily lost to political newcomer Wendy Fink for the Republican nomination in the 94th state House District seat. Fink captured 56% of the vote to Saylor’s 44%, according to the unofficial vote count with 99% of the votes counted. No Democratic candidate appeared on the ballot for that seat.
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Not cited in the summary, but in the full article, is Jason Silvis of Westmoreland County losing to Jill Cooper. This had nothing to do with bona fides and everything to do with politics. His district was redistricted to include the area of Murrysville, which has a significant business district and a lot of fairly well-to-do people. Only problem is that Jason isn’t from Murrysville. Murrysville will be damned if they are represented by anyone who isn’t from there, so they ran Jill. We’re furious because we busted our asses to get Jason elected two years ago, finally ousting a looonnnggg time Democrat.
Naming a state is always nice for people who don’t know where these common-name towns are located.
Thanks. Is that in the Pittsburgh area?
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