State Rep. Carrie DelRosso announces run for lieutenant governor
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Another Pittsburgh-area politician is entering the crowded race for Pennsylvania lieutenant governor as state Rep. Carrie DelRosso, R-Oakmont, announced Wednesday that she is seeking the Republican nomination.
A Scranton native who settled in the Pittsburgh region after attending the University of Pittsburgh, DelRosso won an upset victory in 2020 when she unseated longtime Democratic representative Frank Dermody for a seat in the state House. Dermody had served the 33rd District for 15 terms and was the House Minority Leader.
DelRosso, a former Oakmont councilwoman, said she will support whoever the Republican nominee is. She expects her race to be focused on stopping the presumptive Democratic gubernatorial nominee, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro.
“I know that Josh Shapiro will be an extension of the disastrous Wolf administration, pandering to liberal interest groups and further wrecking an already wounded state economy,” DelRosso said. “As part of the statewide ticket, my every thought will be how I can help our nominee for governor defeat Shapiro and bring conservative leadership back to the executive office.”
DelRosso’s campaign for statewide office comes as the redistricting process threatens to draw her home in Oakmont into a new district that is very friendly to Democrats. That move would put her and a handful of other Republican incumbents into a tough reelection campaign.
She enters a crowded GOP field that includes former state representative and congressional candidate Rick Saccone of Elizabeth; New Castle Mayor Chris Frye; state Rep. Russ Diamond of Lebanon; Army veteran Teddy Daniels; former state Rep. Jeff Coleman of Cumberland County; former state House candidate Jerry Carnicella of Cambria County; and education advocate Clarice Schillinger of Montgomery County.
Lieutenant governors in Pennsylvania are nominated separately in the primary. They then join the ticket of whoever wins their party’s nomination for governor in the general election.
The primary is scheduled for May 17.