Big change on tap for Council?
By CHRIS BRENNAN, CATHERINE LUCEY & BOB WARNER
Philadelphia Daily News
A race for the Northeast Republican Brian O’Neill has held Council’s 10th District seat in the Far Northeast for 30 years.But Democrats are eagerly eyeing the only district seat they don’t hold. Two at-large seats, reserved for candidates from minority parties, are held by the GOP.
City Commission’s election supervisor, Bill Rubin, launched an exploratory committee this week.Rubin, also vice chairman of the city’s pension board, must resign his job when he declares or files paperwork to become a candidate because of city regulations.
Rubin said that the committee allows him to test the waters and see if “individuals that wanted to support me financially . . . are serious about that.”O’Neill plans to run again and has said that he is focused on his own race. But has Rubin’s emergence sparked his recent focus on the city’s pension problems?
O’Neill last week introduced a resolution in Council calling for hearings on the pension fund.
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