Uncategorized

Trump’s D.C.? These District 18 voters will decide between Lamb and Saccone.

  • Britta Lee, Regional Content Editor
A car travels down South Washington Street in Waynesburg, the largest municipality in Greene county with a population of 4,176. (Photo by John Hamilton/PublicSource)
A car travels down South Washington Street in Waynesburg, the largest municipality in Greene County. Voters here and all across District 18 have an opportunity on March 13 to vote in a special congressional election. (Photo by John Hamilton/PublicSource)

At a small country bar near the border of Washington and Greene counties, owner Vince Rudnick sat below a corner TV that occasionally flashed searing political ads.His wife — co-owner of the bar named Rudnick’s and the 135 acres of farmland it’s on — was flipping burgers as thick as a book. Playing video solitaire, 64-year-old Rudnick reminisced about the Bethlehem Steel coal mine he used to work at, and the cows he used to slaughter to make those burgers.

But the mine business has been sputtering, and, about 10 years ago, the restaurant stopped using its own beef due to U.S. Department of Agriculture regulations.
Rudnick is one of the roughly 707,000 people who live in Pennsylvania’s District 18, where the special congressional election between Republican Rick Saccone and Democrat Conor Lamb will take place on March 13.
READ ENTIRE ARTICLE AT:
https://www.publicsource.org/who-will-fill-murphys-seat-in-trumps-d-c-these-district-18-voters-will-decide-between-lamb-and-saccone/

About Post Author

Britta Lee, Regional Content Editor

See author's posts

Comments

From the Web

Skip to content
Verified by MonsterInsights