{"id":25412,"date":"2025-11-05T11:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/25412\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:12:08","slug":"democrats-retain-unanimous-control-of-delco-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/25412\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats retain unanimous control of Delco Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans once dominated Delaware County politics. The party had ruled over Pennsylvania\u2019s second-most densely populated county since the Civil War. In 2017, Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/segments\/democrats-win-big-philly-suburbs-congress-next\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won two seats on County Council<\/a>. In 2019, the Blue Wave <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/in-historic-win-democrats-take-delaware-county-council-in-a-clean-sweep\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">helped score the party the remaining three seats<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>The GOP has been shut out ever since.\n<\/p>\n<p>This cycle, Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/election-2025-delaware-county-council-pennsylvania\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">threw their support<\/a> behind Brian Burke, a Democrat-turned-Republican who previously served on Upper Darby Township Council, and Liz Piazza, a former county employee.\n<\/p>\n<p>The party hammered Democrats on the campaign trail for orchestrating costly reforms \u2014 such as <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/new-delaware-county-health-department-fully-operational\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">establishing a health department<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/delco-takes-back-management-of-george-w-hill-correctional-facility\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deprivatizing the George W. Hill Correctional Facility<\/a> \u2014 and raising taxes.\n  <\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the GOP candidates did not immediately respond early Wednesday morning to a request for comment.\n<\/p>\n<p>Democrats ran on a platform of expanding the tax base and addressing the <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/delaware-county-crozer-health-closure-longer-ambulance-rides-emergency-room-waits\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">closure of Crozer Health<\/a>. Phillips thanked family, friends and the voters for backing her campaign.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to working with everyone to make Delaware County a place we continue to be proud to call home and will continue my work in my new role as a member of Delaware County Council,\u201d Phillips said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Delaware County Council handles all administrative and legislative duties for the county. Council members have the authority to adopt budgets, pass ordinances and hire personnel to lead county departments.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to working together with all parties to make Delaware County one of the strongest counties in the Commonwealth,\u201d Womack wrote. \u201cWorking together\u2026 we all WIN!\u201d\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republicans once dominated Delaware County politics. The party had ruled over Pennsylvania\u2019s second-most densely populated county since the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1383,147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-25412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-elections-2025","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}