PA-01: Ehasz (D) ramps up campaign against Fitzpatrick (R) [View all]
Democratic congressional candidate Ashley Ehasz said on Thursday that she is ready for her second turn taking on four-term incumbent GOP U.S. Rep Brian Fitzpatrick (R-1st District) this November.
At the Neshaminy Federation of Teachers (NFT) union office in Middletown Township on Thursday, Ehasz received the endorsement of the American Federation of Teachers Pennsylvania (AFT-PA), which represents more than 36,000 members in the Keystone State. It was her campaigns first labor union endorsement of the election cycle.
The Ehasz campaign added the education unions endorsement to a number of others, including from EMILYs List, NewDems Action Fund, and VoteVets.
Ehasz, a U.S. Army veteran and public school graduate, thanked the teachers union for their support and said she believes in greater oversight of the charter school system to real solutions for affordable higher education.
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