(The New York Times) — “The new map of the state’s 18 House districts puts Pennsylvania front-and-center among four states that held primaries on Tuesday.”
A state representative, an Air Force veteran and two high-powered lawyers — all women — won Democratic House primaries on Tuesday in Pennsylvania, where a record number of women ran for House seats in a year of intense political enthusiasm among female Democrats.
It was a night of victories for at least seven Democratic women running for the House in a state that has an all-male congressional delegation of 20 and a Statehouse dominated by male politicians. Female candidates showed strength in nearly every region of Pennsylvania, from the Philadelphia suburbs to the conservative southwest.
Click to continue reading. By TRIP GABRIEL – May 16, 2018