PA-03: Meet the longshot in the Democratic primary
Shaun Griffith is tired of being left out of the conversation.
The political newcomer – and longshot in the PA-3 Democratic primary – has been putting in the work as the “people over politics” candidate, even as voter guides and community forums exclude him.
Griffith said he personally collected most of the signatures he needed to get on the ballot, but even after gaining enough support on paper, the city’s Democratic Party tried to stop him.
“I did not expect that … the Democratic City Committee would immediately sue me and that I would then spend nearly a month in court, fighting them, (at) first, to win at the Commonwealth Court,” Griffith told City & State. “We don’t have much money, so I couldn’t hire an attorney for the campaign. It was me.
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