"On Monday, Jack Shea, president of the Allegheny County Labor Council, said he is considering challenging Mr. Altmire.
Mr. Shea, who's led the local labor group since 1998, said he was being urged by some colleagues to mount a write-in campaign for the May 18 Democratic primary. But he said that he was concerned that it might be too late to organize a realistic challenge for the nomination, given the difficulty of convincing voters to write in a name against a candidate with the considerable advantage of having his name listed on the ballot.
Mr. Shea said he might have a better chance of ousting the second-term incumbent by gathering enough signatures to run as an independent on the November ballot. He said that his consideration of a challenge was a response not just to Mr. Altmire's health care vote itself but also to his belief that Mr. Altmire had misled him and other labor leaders on his plans on the legislation.
"He didn't keep his word," Mr. Shea said. "I'm not the only one that he committed to. He told
Bill George the same thing. He told Leo Gerard. ... What he said very plainly was, at the end, the final bill, he would be there."
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