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12th District notes: Hanna on the process, the delegates

More details have emerged about Democrat Barbara Hafer’s criticism of her party’s process for picking a special election candidate in the 12th Congressional District, courtesy of our good friends at Capitolwire.

The subscription-only news service obtained a memo from southwest caucus chair Jack Hanna to two top party officials, as well as an e-mail from Hafer herself to Gov. Ed Rendell. The memo from Jack Hanna to state party chairman T.J. Rooney and executive director Mary Isenhour, dated Feb. 17 contained suggestions about the process for choosing a candidate. Some of them allude to concerns later voiced by Hafer, and Hanna told Capitolwire that he had “gone on the record objecting” to the current process, a contention rejected by a party spokesman.

“I had the same concern Barbara Hafer did and I told them that when we talked about it, and they know how I felt,” Hanna said.

In her e-mail to Rendell, Hafer called the process “flawed, undemocratic and non-transparent” for allowing delegates directly appointed by county party chairs to outnumber elected state committee members. She said that “an immense amount of pressure is being applied to these chairpersons to force them to appoint delegates that would vote only for certain candidates.”

“The essential problem here is that the will of the people, as expressed by the votes of our forty-three state committee members, will be overridden by fifty-seven non-elected delegates,” Hafer wrote. “The fifty-seven delegates selected by the county chairs are neither known nor is the process for their selection known. Who are these people? Governor, we cannot afford to allow the fate of such an important congressional district to be decided through backroom deals and negotiations. I ask you to please intervene in this process before it is too late and to please place this election back in the hands of our forty-three state committee members.”

Meanwhile, her question of “who are these people” was answered Thursday, with the release of the full delegate list by the state party.

See that list below:

County Position First Name Last Name
Allegheny    County Chair    Jim    Burn
Armstrong    Delegate    Jo Ellen    Bowman
Armstrong    Delegate    Donna    Cobb-Taylor
Armstrong    Delegate    Dan    Cornman
Armstrong    State Committee    Jeanne    Englert
Armstrong    Delegate    Charles    Pascal
Armstrong    County Chair    Richard    Shreckengost
Cambria    Delegate    Henry    Ball
Cambria    Delegate    Velma    Beck
Cambria    Delegate    Jim    Beckwith
Cambria    State Committee    Patty    Berkebile
Cambria    State Committee    Frank    Burns
Cambria    Delegate    Frank    Fantauzzo
Cambria    Delegate    John    Fetcik
Cambria    Delegate    Steve    Glover
Cambria    Delegate    Ted    Helsel
Cambria    Delegate    John    Jacoby
Cambria    State Committee    Barbara    Kline
Cambria    State Committee    Susan    Kuhar
Cambria    Delegate    Patrick    Mulhern
Cambria    Delegate    Joseph    Podrasky
Cambria    Delegate    Carol    Stouffer
Cambria    Delegate    Amanda    Sullivan
Cambria    Delegate    Bob    Unger
Cambria    State Committee    Charlie    Vizzini
Cambria    County Chair    Helen    Whiteford
Fayette    Delegate    A.J.    Boni
Fayette    Delegate    Gary    Brownfield
Fayette    State Committee    Sea    Cavanagh
Fayette    State Committee    Gloria    Dillon
Fayette    Delegate    Edward    Fike
Fayette    State Committee    Vickie    Hartsek
Fayette    Delegate    Richard    Kasunic
Fayette    Delegate    Sean    Lally
Fayette    County Chair    Fred    Lebder
Fayette    Delegate    Dave    Malosky
Fayette    Delegate    Jamie    Miller
Fayette    State Committee    Joe    Petrucci
Fayette    Delegate    Janice    Snyder
Fayette    Delegate    Vincent    Vicites
Fayette    Delegate    Lance    Winterhalter
Fayette    State Committee    Rita    Yantko
Fayette    Delegate    Vincent    Zapotosky
Greene    State Committee    Dave    Balint
Greene    State Committee    Pam    Blaker
Greene    County Chair    Greg    Leathers
Greene    Delegate    Maddie    Snyder
Greene    Delegate    Sharon    Willison
Greene    Delegate    Bob    Willison
Indiana    State Committee    Mary Jane    Dellafiora
Indiana    Delegate    Ron    Fairman
Indiana    Caucus Chair    Jack    Hanna
Indiana    County Chair    Tammie    Shetler
Somerset    Delegate    Shelley    Glessner
Somerset    State Committee    Donna    Matsko Schmitt
Somerset    County Chair    John    Vatavuk
Somerset    Delegate    Janet    Vatavuk
Somerset    State Committee    Robert    Will
Washington    State Committee    Clifton    Cochran
Washington    State Committee    Madge    Finney
Washington    State Committee    Robert    Fisher
Washington    State Committee    Judy    Fisher
Washington    State Committee    Patricia    Romano
Washington    State Committee    Anthony    Spossey
Washington    County Chair    George    Vitteck
Washington    State Committee    Peg    Wilson
Westmoreland    Delegate    Ronald    Balla
Westmoreland    Delegate    Joseph    Bauer
Westmoreland    Delegate    Anthony    Bellavia
Westmoreland    County Chair    Dante    Bertani
Westmoreland    State Committee    Randy    Biller
Westmoreland    State Committee    Cynthia    Blissman
Westmoreland    State Committee    Daniel    Blissman
Westmoreland    State Committee    Harriet    Ellenberger
Westmoreland    State Committee    Rose    Embree
Westmoreland    State Committee    Carol    Francese
Westmoreland    State Committee    Timothy    Golding
Westmoreland    Delegate    Larry    Heltebran
Westmoreland    State Committee    Mary Beth    Kuznik
Westmoreland    Delegate    Joseph    Lena
Westmoreland    Delegate    Jack    Manderino
Westmoreland    State Committee    Timothy    McCormick
Westmoreland    Delegate    Gilbert    Miller
Westmoreland    Delegate    Virginia    Mrvan
Westmoreland    Delegate    Eugene    Saloom
Westmoreland    Delegate    Anna    Testa
Westmoreland    Delegate    Taylor    Troiano
Westmoreland    Delegate    William    Truffa
Westmoreland    State Committee    Rosemary    Trump
Westmoreland    Delegate    Veronica    Watkins

March 5, 2010 at 1:04 am

--pa2010.com Staff

Tags: Barabara Hafer, Democratic Party, John Murtha, Mark Critz, PA-12

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