Daily News | Mayoral candidate Cherelle Parker just picked up a major labor endorsement from the building trades
, acknowledged that Parker is at the moment not a frontrunner in the race to win the Democratic nomination. But he vowed to dedicate the trades’ significant manpower and financial resources to her candidacy.
It’s also an open question as to whether the building trades will stay as united and spend as much money on the mayoral race under Boyer as they did under his predecessor, John J. Dougherty, who resigned in 2021 afterDougherty, known as “Johnny Doc,” led the electricians union, which was the biggest spender in city and state politics for years during his tenure.
Aren Platt, a senior strategist for Parker’s campaign, said that Wednesday’s endorsement means that Parker has become first Black woman to be a top-tier candidate for Philadelphia mayor.Boyer hails from the politically powerful Laborers District Council, which includes some of the only majority-Black unions in the trades council, and is the first Black leader of the trades council.
Local 98 was one of two trades unions that abstained from the otherwise unanimous vote to endorse Parker, said Frank Keel, spokesperson for the council. The other was the stagehands, Local 8 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.
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