Heather Boyd won a Pa. House seat in Delco, beating Republican Katie Ford for a vacancy created by the resignation of Democratic Rep. Mike Zabel. Democrats will maintain their narrow state House majority.
limiting abortion rights that legislative Republicans are one House floor vote away from putting before voters as a referendum.
Shapiro cut an ad focusing on the abortion issue for Boyd, who reported raising more than $1.3 million, including more than $1 million in in-kind advertising from the House Democrats’ campaign arm and the Democratic Party. Ford reported raising about $146,000, more than half of which came from the House Republicans’ campaign arm.
Ford criticized Boyd, who has been a leading Democratic Party official in Delaware County, for not doing more in response when she learned about the allegations against Zabel. Boyd said she respected the lobbyist’s request for confidentiality about her claim that Zabel caressed her leg while they discussed legislation outside the Capitol in 2018 and did not stop when she moved away from him.
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