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The Daily Pennsylvanian

2003 Philadelphia ballot

Statewide

Supreme Court Justice -- Retention (vote yes or no):

Ronald D. Castille

Superior Court Judge -- Retention (vote yes or no):

Joseph A. Del Sole

Commonwealth Court Judge -- Retention (vote yes or no):

James Gardner Colins

Ballot questions (vote yes or no):

Shall the Pennsylvania Constitution be amended to provide that a person accused of a crime has the right to be "confronted with the witnesses against him," instead of the right to "meet the witnesses face to face?"

Shall the Pennsylvania Constitution be amended to provide that the General Assembly may enact laws regarding the manner by which children may testify in criminal proceedings, including the use of videotaped depositions or testimony by closed-circuit television?

Supreme Court Justice (vote for one):

Max Baer (Democrat)

Joan Orie Melvin (Republican)

Superior Court Judge (vote for three):

John J. Driscoll (Democrat)

Seamus McCaffery (Democrat)

Jack A. Panella (Democrat)

Grainger Bowman (Republican)

Palmer Dolbin (Republican)

Susan Gantman (Republican)

Philadelphia

Mayor (vote for one):

John F. Street (Democrat)

Sam Katz (Republican)

John Staggs (Socialist Workers Party)

City Council at-Large (vote for five):

David Cohen (Democratic)

W. Wilson Goode Jr. (Democratic)

James Kenney (Democratic)

Juan F. Ramos (Democratic)

Blondell Reynolds Brown (Democratic)

Will Mega (Education Party)

David Hardy (Republican)

Jack Kelly (Republican)

James T. McDermott Jr. (Republican)

David Oh (Republican)

Frank Rizzo (Republican)

Hilda Cuzco (Social Workers Party)

City Council District 3 (vote for one):

Jannie L. Blackwell (Democratic)

Sheriff (vote for one):

John D. Green (Democratic)

David H. Richards (Republican)

City Commissioner (vote for two):

Edgar A. Howard (Democratic)

Margaret M. Tartaglione (Democratic)

Joseph J. Duda (Republican)

Bruce M. Reed (Republican)

Clerk of Quarter Sessions (vote for one):

Vivian T. Miller (Democratic)

Marcus Mitchell (Republican)

Register of Wills (vote for one):

Ronald R. Donatucci (Democratic)

Anita Zalewski (Republican)

Common Pleas Court Judge (vote for eleven):

Lori A. Dumas (Democratic/Republican)

Joseph A. Dych (Democratic/Republican)

Leslie Fleisher (Democratic/Republican)

Brenda Frazier-Clemons (Democratic/Republican)

Jeffrey P. Minehart (Democratic/Republican)

Paula Patrick (Democratic/Republican)

Nina Wright Padilla (Democratic/Republican)

Ramy Djerassi (Democratic)

Holly J. Ford (Democratic)

Joel Johnson Jr. (Democratic)

Doris Pechkurow (Democratic)

Brad Moss (Republican)

Thomas Nocella (Republican)

Common Pleas Court Judge -- Retention (vote yes or no):

Jacqueline F. Allen

Genece E. Brinkley

Tama Myers Clark

Steven R. Geroff

D. Webster Keogh

William J. Manfredi

Frederica A. Massiah-Jackson

Rayford A. Means

Sandra Mazer Moss

Joseph D. O'Keefe

Albert W. Sheppard Jr.

Carolyn Temin

Allan L. Tereshko

Thomas Watkins

Municipal Court Judge (vote for one):

Gerard A. Kosinski (Democratic/Republican)

Municipal Court Judge -- Retention (vote yes or no):

Robert Blasi

Frank T. Brady

Gwendolyn Conway

Barbara S. Gilbert

Lydia Y. Kirkland

Marsha H. Neifield

Craig M. Washington

Lydia Y. Kirkland (Democrat)

Traffic Court Judge (vote for one):

Earlene Green Clark (Democrat)

Michael McAleer (Democrat)

Traffic Court Judge -- Retention (vote yes or no):

Bernice Ann DeAngelis

Joseph A. Howlett

Francis E. Kelly

Fortunato N. Perri, Sr.