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Costello Joins GOP Race in Pennsylvania 6
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| Contributor | karin1492 |
| Last Edited | karin1492 Aug 06, 2009 01:57pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, August 6, 2009 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Looks like Pennsylvania Republicans will have a contested primary to determine their nominee in the state's 6th District, a political battleground near Philadelphia that GOP Rep. Jim Gerlach is leaving open to run for governor.
Republican lawyer Ryan Costello, the recorder of deeds in Chester County, announced Thursday that he will join the race.
"We need independent thinkers who will seek to find the middle ground, work together, and who will support commonsense solutions to the problems facing our nation, not tout the party line, and most importantly not raise taxes as a way to remedy runaway spending and government waste," Costello said.
Costello is joining a Republican primary race that already includes state Rep. Curt Schroder. The primary election will be held next May.
Costello's home county of Chester is one of four from which the 6th draws population in suburbs and exurbs west and northwest of Philadelphia. In the 2008 election, about 40 percent of the 6th District vote came from Chester.
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