Looks like U.S. Rep. Bob Brady is well on his way to another re-election victory.
Keith Leaphart, the 32-year-old physician who formed an exploratory committee to run against the five-term congressman in the April 22 primary, has called it quits.
"Yes, he's not running," Leaphart ally Tracy Hardy confirmed Friday.
With financial support from two of the region's biggest benefactors - H.F. "Gerry" Lenfest and Peter L. Buttenwieser - Leaphart drew serious attention as someone well-positioned to take on Brady. The 20-year-plus chairman of the Democratic City Committee, Brady is the only white House member representing a mostly black district. Leaphart is African American.
Alas, this race is not to be.
"Being he is a newly married man, with a new infant baby," Hardy said, "it all came at him and was more than he anticipated."
Hardy said he was unsure how much money Leaphart raised and what would happen to excess funds.
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