While some Republicans may worry they’re going the way of the Whigs, that could be not as bad as they think after the Modern Whigs party doubled their elected members this week.
In Philadelphia, Whig Robert Bucholz defeated his Democratic opponent by 36 votes to 24 to become an election judge in the Rhawnhurst neighborhood, where he will be tasked with overseeing their local precincts. Though election records may be unreliable for many local offices, the city’s last recorded Whig mayor was in 1856, four years before the party officially dissolved. Bucholz said he joined the party because it matched his economically conservative and socially liberal views.
According to the Modern Whigs chairman, Bucholz is the party’s second elected official nationwide after J. Brendan Galligan won a school-board position in Westfield, N.J. last year.
Via Ace of Spades.