Below is the official slate of endorsed candidates for the General Election on November 6, 2012.  You can print out this list and take it with you when you vote.

Below is the official slate of endorsed candidates for the Primary Election on April 24, 2012.  You can print out this list and take it with you when you vote.

President of the United States

• President Barack Obama 

Attorney General

• Patrick Murphy

Auditor General

• Representative Eugene DePasquale 

Pennsylvania State Senate

• Senator Larry Farnese, 1st District

Pennsylvania State House

• Steve McCarter - 154th District (Montgomery County) 
• Representative Mike O'Brien - 175th District 
• Brian Sims - 182nd District 
• Jordan Harris - 186th District 
• Fatimah Muhammad - 188th District 
• Representative Vanessa Lowry-Brown - 190th District 
• Andrew Kleeman - 195th District
• Malik Boyd - 198th District 
• Representative Cherelle Parker - 200th District 
• Representative Mark Cohen - 202nd District

Click here to read the press release about our 2012 Primary Endorsements.

Below is the official slate of endorsed candidates for the General Election on November 8, 2011.  You can print out this list and take it with you when you vote.

Mayor

• Mayor Michael Nutter

City Council At-Large

• Blondell Reynolds Brown
• Bill Green
• Bill Greenlee
• James Kenney

1st District City Council

• Mark Squilla

2nd District City Council

• Kenyatta Johnson

7th District City Council 

• Maria Quiñones Sánchez

8th District City Council

• Cindy Bass

City Commissioner 

• Stephanie Singer

Commonwealth Court

• Kathryn Boockvar

Court of Common Pleas 

• Diana Anhalt
• Jonathan Irvine
• Angelo Foglietta
• Barbara McDermott
• Carolyn Nichols

Delaware County Council 

• Keith Collins

On October 6, the General Membership of Liberty City held its Fall Candidates Night and Endorsement meeting.  Approximately 50 members of the community came out to hear candidates for office speak and then to vote on our fall endorsements.  Our Co-Chair, Lee Carson, opened the meeting and presented announcements.  After that he introduced Cei Bell, a member of the Endorsement Committee, who moderated our candidate's discussion.

We first heard from Councilman Bill Greenlee, who was not endorsed by Liberty City in the primary.  Greenlee is an incumbent At-large Councilperson and is one of 5 incumbents running for 5 available seats.  Since the organization endorsed two challengers in the Primary Election, out lesbian Sherrie Cohen and community activist Andy Toy, two incumbent councilmembers were not endorsed, including Councilman Greenlee.  Now that the primary election has passed, and the two challengers did not win, we were able to reconsider Greenlee for endorsement.  Greenlee addressed the membership and reiterated his work with the Human Relations Commission to strengthen our Fair Practices Ordinance.  After he spoke, the membership unanimously voted to endorse him in the fall election.

1st District Council candidate Mark Squilla spoke next.  He also competed for our endorsement in the primary election, but the membership endorsed candidate Joe Grace, who came in second place in a four person race.  Squilla won the Primary Election to replace Councilman Frank DiCicco.  Even though he is running unopposed in the General Election, he nevertheless appeared once again before Liberty City to earn our endorsement.  He reiterated his opposition to selling city owned land to the Boy Scouts as well as his opposition to gender markers on SEPTA trans passes.  A member asked if he supported the earned sick leave bill that Mayor Nutter has vetoed.  He said that he would not support it in its current form because he doesn't believe it will pass, but would consider supporting a bill with revised language.  After discussion by the membership, Squilla was overwhelmingly endorsed.

We then heard from Keith Collins who is running for Delaware County Council.  He told us that no Democrat has been elected to Delco's Council in 40 years.  He plans to fight for a countywide Human Relations Ordinance much like what we have in Philadelphia.  The organization also voted to Endorse Mr. Collins.

Municipal Court Judge James DeLeon spoke on behalf of himself and all of the judges running for retention this fall.  Every 10 years a sitting judge must appear on the ballot in a retention election.  Retention elections are nonpartisan yes/no elections in which voters decide whether sitting judges should continue to serve for another term.  After much discussion, the membership decided not to endorse any judicial retention candidates because we had no information about any of the individual candidates appearing on the ballot.

Three candidates who we endorse in the Primary and won their election returned and spoke to thank us for our support.  They were Councilman Bill Green, City Commissioner candidate Stephanie Singer, and Common Pleas Judicial candidate Carolyn Nichols.  Each will appear on our slate of endorsed candidates for the fall election.

Finally, Al Schmidt, the Republican candidate for City Commissioner addressed the membership.  It was made clear to him that he was not eligible for our endorsement since he was running on the Republican ticket.  Allowing Schmidt to speak was consistent with past practices of allowing Green Party and independent candidates an opportunity to speak.  After Mr. Schmidt spoke, one member requested that we reconsider that policy and argued that Republicans should not be allowed to speak before the membership of what is a Democratic Party organization.  The Co-chair said the board will look into the policy of who gets to speak before the General Membership. 

Liberty City is interested in hearing your thoughts on the matter.  Should Republicans be banned from speaking before Liberty City, since our mission is to elect LGBT supportive Democrats?  What about independent candidates or other progressives from the Green Party or other third parties?  Let us know in the comment section below what you think, and the Board will take it into consideration when we next meet.

Click here to see the full slate of endorsed candidates.

The following candidates were endorsed by Liberty City in the Primary Election on May 17th.  The candidates in bold were victorious in the Election and go on as Endorsed Liberty City Candidates for the General Election.

Mayor

• Mayor Michael Nutter

City Council At-Large

• Blondell Reynolds Brown
• Sherrie Cohen
• Bill Green
• James Kenney
• Andrew Toy

1st District City Council

• Joe Grace

2nd District City Council

• Kenyatta Johnson

7th District City Council 

• Maria Quiñones Sánchez

8th District City Council

• Cindy Bass

City Commissioner 

• Stephanie Singer
• Bernard B. Talmadge

Commonwealth Court

• Kathryn Boockvar

Court of Common Pleas 

• Diana Anhalt
• Jonathan Irvine
• Angelo Foglietta
• Christopher Mallios
• Barbara McDermott
• Carolyn Nichols
• Drew Aldinger
• Giovanni Campbell
• Leon King
• Sayde Ladov

Municipal Court 

• Judge Kenneth Powell

Traffic Court 

• Robert Tuerk

The following candidates were endorsed by Liberty City in the General Election in 2010.  The candidates in bold were victorious.

UNITED STATES SENATE 

• Joe Sestak

UNITED STATES CONGRESS 

• Allyson Schwartz - 13th District
• Patrick Murphy - 8th District
• Bryan Lentz - 7th District
• Manan Trivedi - 6th District

PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR

• Dan Onorato

PENNSYLVANIA STATE SENATE

• Ruth Damsker - 12th District (parts of Montomery and Bucks)
• Cynthia Philo - 10th District (Bucks County)

PENNSYLVANIA STATE HOUSE

• Fern Kaufman - 26th District (Chester County)
• Matt Bradford - 70th District (Montgomery County)
• Rick Taylor - 151st District (Montgomery County)
• Shannon Meehan - 163rd District (Delaware County) 
• Mike O'Brien - 175th District (Philadelphia) 
• Babette Josephs - 182nd District (Philadelphia) 
• Kenyatta Johnson - 186th District (Philadelphia) 
• James Roebuck - 188th District (Philadelphia) 
• Vanessa Brown - 190th District (Philadelphia)

The following candidates were endorsed by Liberty City in the Primary Election 2010.  The candidates in bold were victorious in the Primary and went on as Endorsed Liberty City Candidates for the General Election in 2010.

UNITED STATES SENATE 

• Arlen Specter

UNITED STATES CONGRESS 

• Manan Trivedi - 6th District

PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR

• Joe Hoeffel

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

• Jonathan Saidel

PENNSYLVANIA STATE HOUSE

• Fern Kaufman - 26th District (Chester County)
• Tim Kearney - 172nd District (Philadelphia)
• Mike O'Brien - 175th District (Philadelphia)
• Jonathan Ramos - 180th District (Philadelphia)
• Lewis Thomas - 181st District (Philadelphia) 
• Babette Josephs - 182nd District (Philadelphia) 
• Kenyatta Johnson - 186th District (Philadelphia) 
• James Roebuck - 188th District (Philadelphia) 
• Vanessa Brown - 190th District (Philadelphia)
• Josh Cohen - 194th District (Philadelphia)
• Anthony Ingargiola - 195th District (Philadelphia)

The following candidates were endorsed by Liberty City in the General Election of 2009.  The candidates in bold were victorious.

District Attorney

• Seth Williams 

City Controller

• Alan Butkovitz

Supreme Court

• Jack Panella

Superior Court

• Anne Lazurus
• Teresa Sarmina
• Robert Colville

Commonwealth Court

• Linda Judson
• Barbara Behrend Ernsberger

Court of Common Pleas

• Diane Thompson
• Angeles Roca
• Donna Woelpper
• Dan Anders 

Municipal Court

• Dawn Segal
• Charles Hayden
• Joseph Waters

The following candidates were endorsed by Liberty City in the Primary Election of 2009.  The candidates in bold were victorious in the Primary and went on as Endorsed Liberty City Candidates for the General Election in 2009.

District Attorney

• Seth Williams

City Controller

• Alan Butkovitz

Superior Court

• Anne Lazurus
• John Younge
• Robert Colville

Commonwealth Court

• Linda Judson
• Stephen Pollock

Court of Common Pleas

• Diane Thompson
• Angeles Roca
• Donna Woelpper
• Sharon Williams-Losier
• Jonathan Irvine
• Dan Anders
• Joyce Eubanks

Municipal Court

• Dawn Segal
• Charles Hayden
• Joseph Waters
• Christine Adair

The following candidates were endorsed by Liberty City in the General Election of 2008.  The candidates in bold were victorious.

President

• Barack Obama 

State Treasurer

• Rob McCord

State Senate

• Larry Farnese - 1st District

State Representative

• Frank X. Custer - 61st District
• Matt Bradford - 70th District
• Kevin Lee - 163rd District
• Mike O'Brien - 175th District
• Tony Payton, Jr. - 179th District
• W. Curtis Thomas - 181st District
• Babette Josephs - 182nd District
• Kenyatta Johnson - 186th District
• Vanessa Brown - 190th District