GOP seeks May vote for Pa. House vacancies in Allegheny County as power struggle continues

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6. Keeping R control is about passing their kooky constitutional

amendments. They need to pass in a second consecutive session which is the one that begins in January.
They've already passed last session. If the 3 D seats remain open, Rs have 101 seats and Ds 100. If they can manage to keep DeLuca's seat open, they could pass the amendments. But the problem is Cutler, when he was still majority leader, called the special election for that seat for Feb 7th. McClinton selected the same date, so they agreed. Given that, it makes no sense to have the other two special elections in May. Just fill all the open seats at once.

While Culter may be the leader of the party that currently has 1 more seat than Dems, he isn't the majority leader or speaker and really has no standing to call for elections.

The Rs did just select candidates for the open seats, but Carrie DelGrosso, who lives in DeLuca's district and just ran for LtGov and lost, decided not to run for the seat. Clayton Walker (DeLuca's seat); Robert Pagane (Lee's seat) and the same guy who lost to Davis in Nov for that seat.

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-local/2022/12/17/republicans-nominees-house-allegheny-county-deluca-clayton-walker-robert-pagane-don-nevills/stories/202212170087