Its very unusual to have 4 state wide candidates from the "greater Delaware Valley" as they like to say.

McCord lives in Bryn Mawr and is considered the favorite because of his large fundraising advantage and does not seem terribly bad on progressive issues. Website features prominent pictures of Hillary and Rendell, was at one time a speechwriter for Gore among others. As a venture capitalist he does have direct ties with fund management firms that a couple of state pensions do business with - which is a maor part of his job as State Treasurer. He has as said he would recuse himself in issues related directly to those firms but other candidates, particularly Cordisco has sought to criticize McCord for a conflict of interest.

Cordisco is Bucks County Dem Party Chair and very critical of McCord's potential conflict of interest.

Mann is also an incumbent State Rep from Allentown who is simultaneously on ballot for reelection to the State House. Her website says she is also figure of note on the Clinton affiliated Democratic Leadership Council.

Morrison-Wesley is an African American originally from the city with affiliations with State Sen. Tony Hardy Williams and Anna Verna but has never held an elected office.
-Sean
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Harold James was first elected to the state house in 1988 as one of a number of incumbent challengers backed by then-Congressman William J. Gray. James had been the longtime head of the Guardian Civic League, a prominent organization of black members of the police force.

As a legislator, James has shown guts in taken on tough issues such as racial profiling, mandatory sentences, and affirmative action. He has been a strong supporter of raising the minimum wage, and numerous pro-choice, pro-education, pro-workers and pro-environment legislation.

I would strongly encourage any resident of his district in Center City, South Philadelphia, or West Philadelphia to back him for re-election on April 22.

Kenyatta Johnson was an aide to State Sen. Tony Hardy Williams and has been active specifically various groups serving the Point Breeze section of the district.

Will Mega is a supporter and has posted a couple pro-Kenyatta things here on YPP.

Both candidates endorse Obama but Kenyatta did that rather noteworthy flyer where he used Photoshop to badly superimpose himself next to Barack I've been seeing all over South and SW Philly.

-Sean
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Harold James endorsed Lyndon LaRouche for the Democratic nomination for President in 2004 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche). And if you google James and larouche you will see that James is prominently mentioned on the LaRouche website.