Sources: Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski exiting governor’s race

LEHIGH VALLEY MORNING CALL: …Three sources with knowledge of the decision said [Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski] is expected to drop out of the race as early as Monday. Pawlowski has scheduled a news conference Monday with state Treasurer Rob McCord, widely considered a top-tier candidate…

Pawlowski would be the first Democratic challenger to leave the race. The three-term mayor has been struggling to raise the money necessary to get his message out to voters across the state, the sources said…

The remaining candidates are McCord, former Department of Environmental Protection Secretary John Hanger, Lebanon County Commissioner Jo Ellen Litz, former DEP Secretary Katie McGinty, clergyman Max Myers, former state Department of Revenue Secretary Tom Wolf and U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz, D-13thDistrict… (more)

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