Lt. Gov. update: Rizzo’s out, Urban’s hedging his bets

A few days after the state GOP made its endorsement for Lieutenant Governor, the final primary field is still falling into place.

Philadelphia City Councilman Frank Rizzo

February 16, 2010 at 8:13 pm | Comments (1)

Rizzo: ‘I bring Philadelphia’

Philadelphia City Councilman Frank Rizzo Jr. doesn’t think it’s too late to be ramping up a campaign for Lieutenant Governor.

After months of mostly silence and before he appears at two regional caucuses this weekend, Rizzo, a Republican, said that city law coupled with a broken ankle had forced him to lay low recently. He’s has to quit his City Council seat when he starts circulating nominating petitions next month—”I’m the only [candidate] who’s require…

January 25, 2010 at 4:33 pm | Comments (11)

Rizzo making late Lt. Gov. push

After what seemed like months of silence, it looks like Philadelphia City Councilman Frank Rizzo Jr. is going to make a run at the GOP nomination for Lieutenant Governor.

Rizzo, the son of the late Mayor Frank Rizzo, had expressed his interest in the job last year, and allies to Attorney General and gubernatorial front-runner Tom Corbett had reached out to him about joining a party ticket. But since then, he’s been eerily quiet as…

January 25, 2010 at 8:45 am | Comments (18)

Open state Senate seat could mean no Lt. Gov. run for Castor

UPDATE APPENDED (see bottom)

Montgomery County Commissioner Bruce Castor had expressed interest in running for the GOP nomination for Lieutenant Governor. But an open state Senate seat could change all that.

Castor, a Republican who has been mostly full story

June 3, 2009 at 9:53 am | Comments (3)

Room for another Philly Republican in Harrisburg?

PHILADELPHIA—Republicans are a dying breed in this bastion of big-city liberalism, where Democrats outnumber GOP voters by six to one. So it’s not surprising that Frank Rizzo Jr., despite his rich family history here and his comfortable political niche, would be interested in another gig.

Rizzo, the At-Large City Councilman and son of the city’s former Mayor, is eying a gig as Lieutenant Governor.

“I love public service,” Rizzo told pa2010.com in a recent interview.…

May 19, 2009 at 7:00 am | Comments (5)

Wanted: Democrats for Lt. Gov.

The list of Republicans mulling a run for Lieutenant Governor reads like a GOP variety show, with more than a dozen candidates of every stripe lining up to play second fiddle to their party’s gubernatorial nominee. They include party mainstays, rising stars, political unknowns and everything in between.

But at this still-early stage, the Republicans are mostly alone in the field. Only one Democrat has said he is likely to run, and while others have been mentioned as viable, a deluge of Democratic candidates in to the race seems unlikely anytime soon.

So why are Democrats lukewarm to the contest?

April 19, 2009 at 6:10 pm | Comments (1)