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Ed Gainey is the Democratic candidate for the Pennsylvania State House in the 24th legislative district. Gainey grew up in the East Liberty section of Pittsburgh. He got his bachelor's degree in Business Management from Morgan State before returning to Pittsburgh to work on community development. During that time, he championed the Minority Media Initiative, diversity education for the Pittsburgh police, and the 52 Weeks of Peace Initiative. In 2010, he became the first Black chairman for the Pittsburgh City Democratic Committee.
Gainey is active in progressive church organizations in the Pittsburgh Black community and has won awards for his outreach work. He is also known as a champion of reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights. Most recently, he has cosponsored a bill to automatically register Pennsylvania citizens to vote through the Department of Transportation, Human Services, and the VA. During the pandemic, Ed Gainey voted to provide protective gear, testing, hazard pay, family leave, and preserve disaster declarations put in place to protect Pennsylvanians, even as Republicans almost unanimously voted against all of these measures.
Ed Gainey is running unopposed.Ed Gainey
Ed Gainey is the Democratic candidate for the Pennsylvania State House in the 24th legislative district. Gainey grew up in the East Liberty section of Pittsburgh.
Ed Gainey is the Democratic candidate for the Pennsylvania State House in the 24th legislative district. Gainey grew up in the East Liberty section of Pittsburgh. He got his bachelor's degree in Business Management from Morgan State before returning to Pittsburgh to work on community development. During that time, he championed the Minority Media Initiative, diversity education for the Pittsburgh police, and the 52 Weeks of Peace Initiative. In 2010, he became the first Black chairman for the Pittsburgh City Democratic Committee.
Gainey is active in progressive church organizations in the Pittsburgh Black community and has won awards for his outreach work. He is also known as a champion of reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights. Most recently, he has cosponsored a bill to automatically register Pennsylvania citizens to vote through the Department of Transportation, Human Services, and the VA. During the pandemic, Ed Gainey voted to provide protective gear, testing, hazard pay, family leave, and preserve disaster declarations put in place to protect Pennsylvanians, even as Republicans almost unanimously voted against all of these measures.
Ed Gainey is running unopposed.Ed Gainey
Ed Gainey is the Democratic candidate for the Pennsylvania State House in the 24th legislative district. Gainey grew up in the East Liberty section of Pittsburgh.
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