The deep-pockets Philadelphia Building & Construction Trades Council says it is endorsing Republican Jim Hasher for City Council because he supports the proposed 76ers arena.
Ryan N. Boyer, President of Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council, announces who the coalition of unions is endorsing in the upcoming City Council election. He hosted a press conference Wednesday at the Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council headquarters on Woodhaven Road.is driving Philly city politics, a coalition of 30 building trades unions made sure on Wednesday that there was no ambiguity.
campaign said she has a “great relationship” with the building trades and plans to continue that in Council.Boyer said Wednesday morning that Landau “stated opposition” to the arena project. But Landau has said in public forums and on questionnaires that she is awaiting the results of a forthcoming community impact study before reaching a conclusion on the project one way or the other.
The four Democrats who did win the endorsement — Nina Ahmad and incumbents Isaiah Thomas, Katherine Gilmore Richardson, and Jim Harrity — also haven’t said definitively that they support the arena project.for seven seats on Council that serve the city at large, voters can choose up to five candidates. Each party can nominate only five people, meaningin modern history.
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