Mercy Killing
DiFrancesco ends Lt. Governor bid after humiliating RSC vote
by Lowman S. Henry
Dauphin County Commissioner Nick DiFrancesco officially ended his bid for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor today after receiving an embarrassing 24 votes out of 360 votes cast on the first ballot in the endorsement process which was ultimately won by Bucks County Commissioner Jim Cawley.
When the floor vote came, DiFrancesco actually got fewer votes than he did during the straw poll process when he accumulated a paltry 38 votes. The handwriting for the DiFrancesco campaign was on the all this morning when his support in the central caucus -- which he once touted as his base -- fell to just 15 votes (he had received 27 votes in the January straw poll vote.)
In the end, DiFrancesco failed to climb into the top tier of contenders for the statewide post, gathering little support outside of the Dauphin and Cumberland county delegations.
Clearly the rest of the state realized what Dauphin County voters will demonstrate next year in the county commissioner election: Nick DiFrancesco is simply neither qualified nor capable of holding public office.
More on the DiFrancesco record in Dauphin County to come . . .