Ed Pawlowski

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Ed Pawlowski
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Education

Bachelor's

Moody Bible Institute

Graduate

University of Illinois

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Ed Pawlowski was the 41st mayor of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Pawlowski ran for election to the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania in 2016.[1] He dropped out of the race prior to the primary.[2]

Pawlowski was briefly a 2014 Democratic candidate for governor of Pennsylvania in the 2014 elections.[3][4][5]

Biography

Pawlowski became the 41st Mayor of Allentown in 2006. Prior to serving as mayor, he was Allentown’s director of community and economic development. He first moved to Allentown in the 1990s to become President/CEO of the nonprofit Alliance for Building Communities.[6]

Education

  • Bachelor's degree, Moody Bible Institute
  • Master's degree, urban planning and public policy, University Of Illinois

Elections

2016

See also: United States Senate election in Pennsylvania, 2016

The race for Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate seat was one of nine competitive battleground races in 2016 that helped Republicans keep control of the upper chamber after the November 8 general election. Incumbent Pat Toomey (R), who began serving in the Senate in 2011, defeated Katie McGinty (D), Edward Clifford III (L), and write-in candidate Everett Stern (I) in the general election.

Toomey ran his campaign separately from Donald Trump, and he did not tell people who he would vote for on Election Day. Toomey said, “You know, I’m not campaigning with Donald Trump. He’s running his campaign. I’m running mine.”[7][8][9]

Hillary Clinton, who campaigned with McGinty in October, criticized Toomey for not rejecting Trump as his party’s nominee. She said, “How much does he have to hear or to see? If he doesn’t have the courage to stand up against Donald Trump after all of this, then how will he stand up to special interests and powerful forces that are going to be trying to have their way in Washington?”[9]

Speaking about his campaign strategy, Toomey said, “I am convinced that Pennsylvania voters are going to make a complete separation in their minds. … There’s a presidential race going on, quite obviously, lots of attention, lots of focus, everybody’s got their opinion about it, and then there’s a totally separate thing happening in the Senate race — an incumbent senator most people know and an opponent. Totally separate campaign and totally separate judgment.”[9] Toomey stated on Election Day that he voted for Trump.[10]


U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.pngPat Toomey Incumbent 48.8% 2,951,702
     Democratic Katie McGinty 47.3% 2,865,012
     Libertarian Edward Clifford 3.9% 235,142
Total Votes 6,051,856
Source: Pennsylvania Department of State


U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania Democratic Primary, 2016
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngKatie McGinty 42.5% 669,774
Joe Sestak 32.6% 513,221
John Fetterman 19.5% 307,090
Joseph Vodvarka 5.4% 85,837
Total Votes 1,575,922
Source: Pennsylvania Department of State

Pawlowski withdrew from the race before the primary.[2]

2014

See also: Pennsylvania gubernatorial election, 2014

Pawlowski briefly ran for election to the office of Governor of Pennsylvania. Pawlowski was seeking the Democratic nomination in the primary but withdrew before the filing deadline. The general election took place on November 4, 2014. Republican incumbent Tom Corbett is running for re-election.[11][5]

Endorsements

  • Iron Workers Local 420
  • IBEW Local 375
  • Lehigh Valley Building Trades (LVBT)[12]

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Personal

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Pawlowski and his wife, Lisa, have been married for over 25 years and have two children, Mercy and Alex.[13]

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