{"id":21707,"date":"2020-06-24T09:35:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T13:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=21707"},"modified":"2020-06-24T09:38:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T13:38:39","slug":"herrin-overwhelming-choice-for-state-rep-to-replace-comitta-on-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=21707","title":{"rendered":"Herrin overwhelming choice for State Rep. to replace Comitta on ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Mike McGann<\/strong>, Editor, The Times<\/em> @mikemcgannpa<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Dianne Herrin<\/p><\/div>\n

West Chester Mayor Dianne Herrin was the overwhelming choice of 156th District Democratic Committee Persons to replace State Rep. Carolyn Comitta on the fall ballot \u2014 Comitta won the the primary for the Democratic nomination to replace state Sen. Andy Dinniman (D-9).<\/span><\/p>\n

Based on unofficial results posted Tuesday night, Herrin won 75% of the votes of committee people, with only one other candidate \u2014 Carrie Pizzillo-Stare earning double-digit support at 15%. Former party chair Brian McGinnis earned 6% while Alex Christy and Marcel Kaminstein each got 2%.<\/span><\/p>\n

Herrin has been Mayor of West Chester since 2018 when she won election to replace Comitta \u2014 then freshly elected to the state house. She served previously on Borough Council and various borough committees.<\/span><\/p>\n

Herrin faces Republican Len Iacono in the November election.<\/span><\/p>\n

Democratic party officials celebrated having their entire slate complete \u2014 from Joe Biden for President down to the various state legislative seats. Democrats now control all but four legislative seats in the county and are seeking to run the table this fall for the first time since before the Civil War.<\/span><\/p>\n

Citing primary turnout, party leaders say they see a clear enthusiasm gap over Chester County Republicans \u2014 and now with a voter registration edge for the first time in more than 150 years feel they are primed to have an exceptional fall election season. Democrats point to success with the newly expanded mail-in voting \u2014 almost 75% of the mail ballots cast this primary election were by Democrats.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe were very pleased with the turnout,\u201d said Dick Bingham, Chester County Democratic Committee Chairman. \u201cI am sure the enthusiasm will continue to grow all summer. We had a clean sweep of every county race in 2019. We expect a repeat with our smart, talented slate on November 3.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

While considered likely to flip seats in the southeast portion of the county \u2014 the 160th state house district and 9th state Senate district have seen rapid changes in voter performance \u2014 a sweep may be difficult in the more rural western portion of the county, where Republicans still hold a working majority.<\/span><\/p>\n

Still, Democrats have reason for optimism, having literally transformed county politics from one-party Republican rule just four years ago to all but dominating both county government (Democrats now hold all row offices and a majority on the Board of County Commissioners) and state legislative seats. The lone Congressional seat is held by Democrat Chrissy Houlahan.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Chester County Democratic slate for the Nov. 3 election:<\/span><\/p>\n

President of the United States: Joseph R. Biden<\/span><\/p>\n

6th Congressional District: Chrissy Houlahan<\/span><\/p>\n

PA Attorney General: Josh Shapiro<\/span><\/p>\n

PA Treasurer: Joe Torsella<\/span><\/p>\n

PA Auditor General: Nina Ahmad<\/span><\/p>\n

9th District PA Senate: John Kane<\/span><\/p>\n

19th District PA Senate: Carolyn Comitta<\/span><\/p>\n

13th District PA Representative: Richard Ruggieri<\/span><\/p>\n

26<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> District PA Representative: Paul Friel<\/span><\/p>\n

74<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> District PA Representative: Dan Williams
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

155th District PA Representative:\u00a0Danielle Friel Otten<\/span><\/p>\n

156<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> District PA Representative: Dianne Herrin<\/span><\/p>\n

157<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> District PA Representative: Melissa Shusterman<\/span><\/p>\n

158<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> District PA Representative: Christina Sappey<\/span><\/p>\n

160<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> District PA Representative: Anton Andrew<\/span><\/p>\n

167<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> District PA Representative: Kristine Howard<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times @mikemcgannpa West Chester Mayor Dianne Herrin was the overwhelming choice of 156th District Democratic Committee Persons to replace State Rep. Carolyn Comitta on the fall ballot \u2014 Comitta won the the primary for the Democratic nomination to replace state Sen. Andy Dinniman (D-9). Based on unofficial results posted Tuesday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4887,110,760,9006,8248,3162,192],"class_list":["post-21707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-156th-district","tag-chester-county","tag-democrats","tag-dianne-herrin","tag-election-2020","tag-featured","tag-state-representative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21708,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21707\/revisions\/21708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}