Davis is not well-known in Pennsylvania, but he attracted attention in the past month as Shapiro was in contention to be Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate.
Lt. Gov. Austin Davis, the son of a hairdresser and bus driver, grew up in McKeesport, a small city less than 15 miles from Pittsburgh that was hit hard by the collapse of the steel industry. As a teenager, he witnessed a shooting on his block. That moment spurred him into action, he said.Austin Davis knows Pennsylvanians aren’t thinking about their lieutenant governor. But that hasn’t stopped him from trying to make an unknown office more useful.
“If you came to my house, it’s not like the state of the governor’s residence,” Davis said. “There’s playpens everywhere, there’s toys.What the lieutenant governor does — and how Davis changed the role State Sen. Devlin Robinson has worked with Davis for more than a decade, beginning when Davis worked for then-Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald and Robinson worked for former U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy . They both came to Harrisburg in the last few years, and share cigars on the lieutenant governor’s balcony — which has a great view of the Capitol building.
“You have my commitment,” Davis told the group. “We’re going to continue to work to be better to make our communities safer.”Lieutenant governors typically run independently in primaries, and then join the ticket of their party’s gubernatorial candidate for the general election. Shapiro did things differently, and indicated that he wanted to handpick his running mate.
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