Making history: Braddock Mayor Fetterman upsets Lt. Gov. Stack

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Making history: Braddock Mayor Fetterman upsets Lt. Gov. Stack

The Associated Press | Wednesday, May 16, 2018 3:30 a.m.

Matt Rourke/AP

Braddock Mayor John Fetterman, seen here April 14, 2016, won the five-way Democratic Party primary race for lieutenant governor Tuesday, beating incumbent Mike Stack.

Braddock Mayor John Fetterman won a five-way Democratic Party primary race for lieutenant governor — and made political history.

The victory means he will run on a ticket with Gov. Tom Wolf in the fall. He vanquished Lt. Gov. Mike Stack, a former Philadelphia state senator, who became the first sitting lieutenant governor to lose a primary.

Stack has had a chilly relationship with Wolf, and Wolf never endorsed Stack and rarely, if ever, appeared in public with him. Wolf left Stack to fend for himself after he stripped Stack of state police protection amid complaints over how Stack and his wife treated state employees, including state police troopers.

Jeff Bartos, a real estate investor from suburban Philadelphia, beat three other candidates to win the Republican nomination.