The annual event had a charitable twist this year. Author: WNEP Web Staff Updated: 7:42 PM EST February 20, 2021
SCRANTON, Pa. There was a charitable twist to an annual political event on Saturday in Scranton.
Political candidates in need of signatures on the petitions they need to run could get some drive-thru style at Lace Works Tap and Grill on Court Street.
Visitors were asked for their John Hancock, and also for a donation of non-perishable food for the United Neighborhood Centers food bank. Many of the events we have through the year we try to involve a chartable component and so the pantries, you know are getting lower so were doing a food drive asking people to come and drop off some food, that we will then give to the local pantries, said Sharon Quinn with the Lackawanna County Federation of Democratic Women.
A Scranton woman well-known in local Democratic politics and with plenty of managerial experience sounds like she wants the job of collecting the cityâs taxes.
Cathy Nealon Wechsler, 60, said Friday sheâs âpretty sureâ she will run for tax collector in 2021.
The job will come open after next year because the law bars Tax Collector Bill Fox from seeking a third four-year term.
Wechsler could have company on the Democratic ballot.
City Councilman
This could get interesting.
When Donahue won his council seat four years ago, he made it through a six-candidate Democratic contest to win one of three council seats. Donahue finished second well behind current council President