PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: Montgomery County Commissioner Chairman Josh Shapiro has told national Democratic Party leaders that he will not run for the nomination to challenge Republican Sen. Pat Toomey next year…
Senior Democrats had been encouraging Shapiro to jump into the primary against Joe Sestak, a retired Navy rear admiral and former Delaware County congressman who lost a close race to Toomey in 2010 but who also has a strained relationship with members of the party establishment…
Democratic insiders say that Shapiro has been considering a bid for state attorney general in 2016. Embattled incumbent Kathleen Kane, a Democrat, is facing potential criminal charges in the leak of secret grand jury information embarrassing to a political rival… (more)
