Seemingly nobody that Pennsylvania Republican Lieutenant Governor candidate Steve Urban talks to.  You see Urban is one of 9 Republicans who are competing to be the Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor.  Steve Urban is currently a County Commissioner in lovely Luzerne County, PA – which is about 120 miles north of Philadelphia.  It’s great that he wants to serve his fellow citizens of the great commonwealth of Pennsylvania this way, but what’s really interesting is that he’s developed a fall back plan should the whole 9-way GOP primary not work out for him.

Doubling His Fun?

What’s the fall back plan you ask?  Why it’s easy really.  While Mr. Urban was dropping off his petitions to run for Lt.  Governor, he also dropped off his petitions to run for State Senate in the 14th district.  The 14th is an open Democrat seat that has no other Republican candidates and 3 Democrat candidates all seeking to fill Raphael Musto’s seat serving the great people of the greater Wyoming Valley.

Urban said he will simultaneously campaign for both seats.

“The lieutenant governor works very closely with the Senate, and the issues are very similar,” Urban said.

He does not believe any Republicans are running for the 14th Senatorial District, so he would be running unopposed in the May 18 primary. Urban said he doesn’t believe any of the other Republican lieutenant governor candidates have “statewide name recognition.”

“I think it will be a more regionalized race,” Urban said. “The governor and lieutenant governor run independently, and I believe the people of the commonwealth ought to have a choice,” he said.

Urban said he has not decided what he will do if he wins Republican nominations to both seats.

“We’ll cross that bridge when we get there,” said Urban.

So there you have it – you can run for two offices at once. Wonder if this trend will spread to other parts of this great democratic experiment?

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