As a follow up to my post last week about the Republican delegate race in Congressional District 6, in which I ran as the only female candidate and one of only two candidates from Montgomery County out of a total of 9 (the rest were from Chester and Berks Counties), I woke up this morning to find that I did rather well for an unendorsed candidate, winning a spot as a delegate in both Montgomery and Berks Counties.
Actually, yesterday unendorsed candidates did pretty well in general. For example, the endorsed Party favorite to challenge the senate seat currently held by Rep. Bob Casey (D), Steve Welch, was knocked out of contention.
Anyway, for those who have been asking me how it all worked out, below I've shown results by county and in total. Total for each race for all Lower Providence voting districts for both parties can be found here.
Unfortunately, the count in Chester County - in which I placed fourth - offset the victories in Montco and Berks, but overall I was very happy with the results considering I spent no money on the race and did not do much in the way of traditional campaigning (and was unendorsed).
http://webapp.montcopa.org/election/2012%20Primary%20Election%20Result.htm
Chester County:
http://dsf.chesco.org/election/lib/election/results/cumf.htm
Candidate
|
Montgomery
|
Chester
|
Berks
|
Total
|
Rep. Gerlach
|
6,613
|
18,509
|
8,226
|
33,348
|
Costello
|
3,168
|
10,554
|
3,281
|
17,003
|
Rep. Schroder
|
2,001
|
9,641
|
2,432
|
14,074
|
Kearney
|
2,231
|
4,817
|
2,645
|
9,693
|
Here's to a successful convention in August, and hopefully a BIG Republican win in November!
2 comments:
I find it egregious that an elected representative to the U.S. Congress should vie for a position of prestige that should go to one of the trench warriors who actually got him elected to his six-figure job. Gerlach should be ashamed that he beat a committeeperson, hell, never should have been in the race.
I agree Bill...and it made for a few awkward moments when I a) was asked to get him some petition signatures at the last minute when he was falling short to get on the ballot - and I got him almost 100 signatures AND hand-delivered them to Harrisburg, and b) when I went to meet him at an event he sponsored for all the committeepeople in his new district. Never said thanks in person although he (much) later put it on a letter. But hey, I know he's a busy guy :)
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