Lentz wins!
Everybody knows how the rest of the slate went, but I know that I’m getting a lot of hits from people trying to get results on the Lentz-Gannon race (PA House 161).
Bryan Lentz has won. The margin was slim, a few hundred votes. All day long, people asked me what I thought was going to happen. I said that it would be a few hundred votes either way.
But it went the right way.
That’s it for now. I’m exhausted and have developed a tummy ache. But I’ll rest well knowing that we pulled off the clean sweep in our little neck of the woods.
Update: Pics!
Posted Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 at 1:01am
Filed under Tom Gannon, Bryan Lentz, PA-161, Elections, Politics | RSS
Filed under Tom Gannon, Bryan Lentz, PA-161, Elections, Politics | RSS
Woo hoo! That’s some of the best news I’ve heard in a day of *very* good news.
We got a visit from some Rendell folks late in the afternoon yesterday and their primary message was actually “Vote Lentz!” rather than Rendell himself. I had already voted by that time, but I wonder if that last minute push made the difference?
Good job and a hearty thanks from the left coast PA ex-pats!
Wahoo! I’m so happy for him, for you, and for PA.
I’m so glad he won! Yay!
Tiffy–
At the very last minute, Gannon started distributing literature trying to make it look as though Rendell endorsed Tom Gannon. (Rendell had written him a nice letter to thank him for his support of a piece of legislation.)
Given that Rendell’s coattails were large, taking almost 70% of the vote down this way, nobody wanted there to be any ambiguity. They were running around the district with sticky notes that simply said that Ed Rendell endorses Bryan Lentz for State Rep.
In the end, it all worked out. But with only a 500-ish vote margin, it was too close to leave anything to chance.