PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE: Democrat Tom Wolf, the front-runner in a seven-way gubernatorial primary, said on Monday that some of his opponents may try to use against him events from more than a decade ago when he was campaign chairman for a former York mayor, an admitted racist acquitted of murder.
Others may remind voters of his friendship with an ex-legislator who is appealing a corruption conviction, Wolf acknowledged.
Wolf, 65, of Mt. Wolf, shot to the top of three statewide public opinion polls last week because of his TV advertising campaign. Running as an outsider and an “unconventional” candidate who would reform government, Wolf said he becomes a target — and the ex-York mayor’s racially tinged case is an example of the fodder… (more)
