Two candidates hoping to unseat City Councilmember Jamie Gauthier in her West Philly district were hit with legal challenges seeking to remove them from November's general election ballot.
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Three of those voters are Democratic City Committee people in the district and two are progressive activists, a show of support for Gauthier, on Council. Two of the Democratic City Committee members who filed the challenge Tuesday also participated in the successful primary challenge filed against Jones in March.The challenge said Jones, executive director of the West Philadelphia Corridor Collaborative, submitted 2,570 signatures last week but that only 683 were valid.
Jones, now the lone candidate from the “West Is Best” political party, on Tuesday filed a legal challenge to remove Kersey, a Libertarian Party candidate, from the ballot in the 3rd District. That challenge said Kersey submitted 1,048 signatures but that 619 of them were invalid.“That will be an interesting day in court,” Jones said Tuesday afternoon after learning about the challenge from The Inquirer.Gauthier, a Democrat seeking a second four-year term, ran unopposed in the primary.
The PAC was funded primarily by Jeff Yass, a Main Line conservative billionaire and Pennsylvania’s richest man. Gym finished in third place in the Democratic primary for mayor.running on the Working Families Party ticket for City Council at-large seats in November’s election.
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