Philadelphia's Republican Party has appealed a ruling that kept City Councilmember Kendra Brooks and her Working Families Party running mate, Nicolas O’Rourke, on November’s at-large Council ballot.
The move highlights the serious stakes as the progressive Working Families Party seeks to oust Republicans from the at-large seats that were in GOP hands for seven decades.
Philadelphia’s Republican Party on Wednesday appealed a judge’s ruling that kept City Councilmember Kendra Brooks and her Working Families Party running mate, Nicolas O’Rourke, on November’s ballot. Charles M. Gibbs, an attorney for Brooks and O’Rourke, said they used the electronic records portal that the city’s Department of Records set up. Gibbs noted that other elected officials — including the judge — have filed their own statements of financial interests that way this year.Eric Rosso, a spokesperson for the Working Families Party, called the appeals “just another desperate attempt to take away voter choice” while predicting the effort will fail in the state’s Commonwealth Court.
“There are contradictory precedent cases,” Fenerty said. “I think it needs to be straightened out by the Commonwealth Court.”in the names of Republican ward leaders Chris Vogler and Joseph Giedemann, cited a 2020 case in which Pennsylvania’s Democratic Party successfully petitioned to have the Green Party’s candidate for president removed from the ballot because a candidate’s affidavit had been faxed to the Department of State in Harrisburg instead of submitted on paper in that office.
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