The chairman of the Republican Party in Philadelphia Vince Fenerty said on Tuesday evening that it seems that the Last Writing campaign at the last minute GOP managed to choose the Democrat Patrick Dugan as a republican candidate for the District Prosecutor.
Dugan lost on Tuesday to the current regional prosecutor Larry Krasner in Democratic Primary. But after no Republican applied for a race, GOP organized Dugan another bite in Apple in the November universal elections, nominating him as a republican.
Electoral staff will last to read the names of votes and determine whether Dugan won the nomination for GOP. But Fenerty said that early results indicate that the party pulled her out.
Dugan’s campaign had previously said that it would not accept the GOP nomination if it received it. Fenerty said he hopes that the democrat would be considered again.
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“Democrats, Republicans and Independents must connect to stop the madness of what is happening to Larry Krasner in this city,” said Fenerty. “Pat Dugan is a moderate democrat that can attract voices.”
Dugan’s campaign issued a statement delayed on Tuesday evening, in which she lost the race to Krasner and seemed to be closing the door about the possibility that he would continue the campaign as a republican.
“Although we have not come to the day of elections, I am proud of what we have achieved, and although I am not the next district prosecutor, I will never stop fighting for the values ​​we conducted by this campaign,” said Dugan. “And for Larry Krasner I offer congratulations. Because of our districts, our families and the soul of this city – I really hope he succeeds.”
It would take 1,000 Republican voters to write on behalf of Dugan to make him nominee. Early results do not say who received the votes, but indicate how much it was. At the end of Tuesday evening, partial results showed that over 6,000 main GOP voters cashed votes at the District Prosecutor.
For comparison, this is much more votes than the main GOP voters in the race for the common court of Pleas, in which the party also failed to put up a candidate and republicans, who had about 1,500 votes at the end of Tuesday.
Republican leaders said that they prefer Dugan, a former judge of the city court and a veteran of the army, because he is more complex in relation to a crime than Krasner. Dugan emphasized, however, that he was “a democrat all his life,” and his campaign manager Dan Kalai said during the main campaign that Dugan would reject the nomination of GOP if he received it.
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Some voters on Tuesday expressed the confusion about how the votes would be counted and whether republican votes for democratic candidates would count in a democratic basic basis.
They didn’t do it. Pennsylvania closed the basic one, which means that only registered Republicans can vote in basic Republican, and only registered democrats can vote in democratic foundations. Philly Gop asked her voters to make a Republican Dugan nominated – without voting for him in the basic democratic.
Jeff Greenburg, a senior advisor to the seventy -year committee, said that the opposite transience, to encourage the candidate to write, is not sporadic.
“This is absolutely legal and it happens very often in the entire community in local offices,” said Inquirer.
Greenburg said he wasn’t sure how effective the strategy was, but he was not worried about the legality of practice or the distribution of leaflets.
“The leaflets themselves are legal until there are 10 feet from the outside of the election room,” he said.
