Municipal primary elections in Pennsylvania last a week from Tuesday, and some of the most vital races take place for the Mayor of State Cities, Districts and Cities.
PoliticSpa deducts to the election on May 20, looking at key races throughout the community of nations.
Today we are looking at the mayor’s race in the north -western corner of Keystone – Erie.
Beneficiary Joe Share He is looking for the third term and faces the main challenges Daria Devlin AND Sheila Woager who claims that the city needs recent leadership. The main winner will probably face the republican Matthew Thomas in universal elections. Democrats have a significant advantage of registration of voters 2 to 1 in the city. Since then, no republican has been elected mayor of Erie Charles Williamson in 1961.
Joe Share
- Party: Democrat
- Experience: Mayor, City of Erie (2018-Present); PNC Bank Regional Manager
- Priorities. Improve the city’s finances; Reduce crime; Support our companies; Develop jobs; Increase a high quality apartment and house owner; Transform the Brothers Miller building into a recent public safety sophisticated; Implement city plans to reduce accident mortality, expand access to pedestrians, install bicycle paths, keep our history and improve parks. Provide the sustainable development of social police initiatives such as the police
- Education: BA, Gannon University; MA, University of Dayton; MBA, Gannon.
- Quote: “Despite the pandemic, despite the social problems, and despite the financial challenges that the city faces, my administration made significant progress in positioning erie into a more prosperous future. Long, how long I am. “
- Cufflinks: Website |. Facebook |. Twitter |. Instagram
Daria Devlin
- Party: Democrat
- Experience: Director of Social Influence for Hamot Health Foundation. He founded a partnership for Erie public schools and founded Erie Center for Arts and Technology (ECAT). Former Erie School Board.
- Priorities. We need to balance the supply of apartments and demand, while stabilizing our districts with access to housing capabilities for everyone. We need to create an economic mobility paths, maintaining and developing our local companies, encouraging a recent, creative augment in the industry in our region. We must create opportunities for civic involvement, career exploration and innovation to support adolescent people throughout the city and ensure that Erie is a city where the next generation can develop. The time has passed to balance the budget, improve the services rendered and prioritize the performance throughout the city’s local governments.
- Education: BA, Colgate University ’99. M.ED., Pennwest Edinboro ’16.
- Quote: “The city is on the verge of financial crisis and must look for long -term solutions for sustainable development. We must think differently about budgeting and planning capital and implement key financial controls to reduce risk.”
- Cufflinks: Website |. Facebook |. Instagram
Sheila Woager
- Party: Democrat
- Experience: retired teacher.
- Priorities. “It is necessary for every taxpayer dollar to be spent wisely, effectively and settled. It is also important that the city not only speaks of transparency, but actively involve it. The taxpayer has all the right to know where the money is issued, and all the right to know the request should be transparent in administration.”
- Education: Ba, Gannon University ’07
- Quote: “As a candidate for the mayor, I do not bring leadership skills as justified by the world system. I have been denied equal opportunities. What I have is the wisdom of God that gives all people liberally. The love of God, which makes me even love my enemy and gives me empathy – because I experienced homelessness, lived in the housing that he should be condemned, and like new water. conditions;
- Links: website
Matthew Thomas
- Party: Republican
- Experience: lawyer.
- Priorities. Clean the streets (literally and portable), solve the hands of the police force of our city and ask them to push – hard – including crime, including (yes) drug offenses and abuse of the house. Increase police funds. Work with the federal government to get someone out of our city that should not be here. Nobody who commits crimes using violence or transports drugs to our districts should still walk on our streets.
- Education: Ba, Gannon University ’09.
- Quote: “If you care about the city, consider changing direction I, maybe a change from the political party that ruled, unquestioned since the mid -1960s. Let’s find the future.”
- Links: website
Media
- Schember, Devlin collects big money in the Erie Mayor race. Here is a breakdown. |. Erie-Times news
- Race about Erie Mayor: 3 Questions for Democrats Schember, Devlin, Woager | Erie Times-News
- Race about Erie Mayor: 3 questions to the Republican Matthew Thomas | Erie Times-News
- Democrats Devlin, Schember Spar over the finances of the city of Erie as the mayor’s heat. |. Erie Times-News
- Daria Devlin: Erie, it’s time for changes and real solutions to grave problems. |. Erie Times-News
- Sheila Ellyn Woaeger: Erie needs a change in the paradigm – government for people. |. Erie Times-News
- Matthew Thomas: The city of Erie is a “dead walking man”, but the solutions are not complex. |. Erie Times-News
- Members of the Democratic Party Committee Eric support Devlin in the mayor’s race. |. Erie Times-News
- STYLE STYLE: Race of the Mayor of ERIE 2025 | Erie Reader
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