If Gov. Tom Corbett loses today's election, Republican
influence at the state-built Pennsylvania Convention Center will wane as
Democratic appointments replace GOP-filled state seats on the board. Can GOP
board chairman Gregory Fox keep that post? Will GOP lobbyist John McNichol find
a way to keep his paid job overseeing the Center and urging big shows to
return? Will vice chairman Josh Shapiro, the ambitious Democratic Montgomery
County commissioners' chairman who worked closely with Republicans, gain
influence?
Any comeback for ousted Center CEO Ahmeenah Young, whose
Philadelphia political ally Dwight Evans is firmly in Wolf's camp? Will a new
establishment keep smooth relations with outside center manager SMG? Will
Heather Steinmiller, the Democratic lawyer and Mayor Nutter appointee (she
works for George Norcross's big insurance agency) who led the long campaign for
revised Center work rules, have something to show for years of heavy
lifting?
And will Ed Coryell Sr.'s Carpenters, who lost 82
fulltime jobs when the Convention Board replaced them and the Teamsters, be
able to use his union's clout with Wolf or with Democratic Lt. Gov. candidate
Mike Stack to win back his union's old set-up role? Will Democratic appointees
help Coryell at the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board, where he's trying to
win back the jobs lost to his rival John Dougherty of IBEW Local 98 and
Dougherty's allies in the Laborers union, under the Center's reorganization at
the end of last year?
Source: Philly.com
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