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SCTIMESTRIBTIMESPAGES A03 I 052114 00:56 BLACK LOCAL WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2014 THE TIMES-TRIBUNE A3 Flyim easily turns back challenge; will face Lisi 113th House District incumbent takes 80 of Democratic vote in win over Morgan. TV I FLYNN LISI to more influential committees if he is re-elected. "I'm just excited. I love the job," he said. "The more time you get in, the more you can do.

I'm just going to keep fighting." The 113th District includes West Scranton, North Scranton, Green Ridge, Minooka, Central City and part of South Scranton, along with South Abington Twp. and Clarks Green. The two-year state House term pays a salary of $84,012. VOTE TOTALS Democrat Marty Flynn 6,732 Lee Morgan 1,676 Republican Marcel Lisi 1,615 Contact the writer: jhaggertytimesshamrock.com driver Lee Morgan, 54, unofficial returns indicate. "It's hard to get 80 percent of the vote," said Mr.

Flynn, a former Lackawanna County Prison official who is serving his first term in the Legislature. "I attribute that to my staff and all the hard work that everyone has been doing." Mr. Flynn will face Marcel Lisi, who ran unopposed for the Republican nomination, in November. Mr. Lisi, 26, of West Scranton, ran unsuccessfully for the Scranton GOP mayoral nomination in 2013.

Mr. Flynn, a former boxer, said he hopes to be appointed BY JAMES HAGGERTY STAFF WRITER Incumbent state Rep. Marty Flynn cruised to a primary election victory on Tuesday in the 113th Legislative District. Mr. Flynn, 38, a West Scranton Democrat, captured 80 percent of the vote while turning back a challenge from Scranton truck New 112th for Farina Fall race set for the 17th Republican Moylan defeats two others for right to face incumbent Matt Cartwright.

BY KYLE WIND STAFF WRITER Republican Schuylkill County Coroner David J. Moylan will face U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright in this fall's election after defeating fellow Republicans Matt Connolly and Matthew Dietz in Tuesday's primary race. With all votes counted except less than 1 percent of -y i I'll'.

MOYLAN Lackawanna County ballots, and 24 of 76 precincts in Northampton County uncounted, Mr. Moylan garnered 51.26 percent of the vote, followed by Mr. Connolly's 30.56 percent and Mr. Dietz's 18.19 i i 4 CARTWRIGHT JAKE DANNA STEVENS STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER State Rep. Frank Farina loosens his tie at the American Legion on Church Street in Jessup on Tuesday after speaking to supporters following his victory in the race for the Democratic nomination in the state House 112th District race.

Jessup Democrat tops Haggerty in incumbent battle Ik BY JIM LOCKWOOD AND SARAH SCINTO STAFF WRITERS In a three-way battle for a Democratic nomination in the newly configured 112th District, state Rep. Frank Farina of Jessup defeated state Rep. Kevin Haggerty of Dunmore and former Valley View School Director Bob Munley of Jessup. Mr. Farina garnered 44.3 percent of the vote, while Mr.

Haggerty received 37.3 per UN LEY JAKE DANNA STEVENS STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER State Rep. Kevin Haggerty gives his concession speech at Calabria's Pizzeria in Dunmore on Tuesday night. Legislative redistricting combined parts of the 112th and 115th districts into a new 112th District. The reapportionment forced two first-term incumbents, Mr. Haggerty of the 112th and Mr.

Farina of the 115th, to run against each other. They also faced Mr. Munley, a retired radiological technician. There was no Republican on the ballot, and the three-way Democratic battle was the most closely watched legislative race in the area. House members serve two-year terms with an annual salary of $84,012.

In a concession speech at Calabria's Pizzeria in Dunmore, Mr. Haggerty congratulated Mr. Farina and said he would support him. Mr. Haggerty also said he would seek some elected office in the future, but it would not be against Mr.

Farina in the 112th. "This is not a sad moment for us. We did everything that could have possibly been done," Mr. Haggerty said. "Frank Farina won by 900 votes with another individual from Jessup in the race.

That is something else. Kudos to Frank Farina." percent. Mr. Moylan largely won on a strong showing in his home county, leading 6,235 to Mr. Connolly's 1,163 and Mr.

Dietz's 818. This fall, he expects to again be a favorite in Schuylkill County as well as Carbon County, where he has practiced radiation medicine for the past 25 years, but he acknowledged that unseating an incumbent with little name recognition in the other four counties will be difficult. The fact that the 17th Congressional District has seven registered Democrats to every four Republicans will also make Mr. Moylan's candidacy an uphill battle. "I'm attributing my apparent success to the intercession of St.

Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of impossible causes," Mr. Moylan said after Tuesday's unofficial returns were in. Mr. Connolly projected better results in Schuylkill County and thought the low turnout hurt his chances. "I won in five of six counties," said Mr.

Connolly "I feel great about that." Mr. Cartwright, of Moosic, congratulated Mr. Moylan and said he looks forward "to a spirited campaign." The 17th Congressional District includes parts of Lackawanna, Luzerne, Carbon, Monroe and Northampton counties, plus all of Schuylkill County This November's winner will receive a two-year term and will earn a $174,000 annual salary. VOTE TOTALS Republican David J. Moylan 9,114 Matt Connolly 6,495 Matthew Dietz 4,001 Democrat Matt Cartwright 22,516 Staff writers PETER CAMERON and KATHLEEN BOLUS contributed to this report.

Contact the writer: kwindtimesshamrock.com, kwindTT on Twitter cent and Mr. Munley trailed with 18.3 percent, according to unofficial results. Mr. Farina declared victory shortly after 9 p.m. to thunderous applause from a large crowd of supporters at the American Legion in Jessup.

He spoke of having to close out his existing term while moving on to represent the new district. "We have a lot of work to do," Mr. Farina said. "We still have the remaining 115th. We still have the people in this district to represent until December.

And now we have to start building inroads, build those relationships and start taking care of the people of the 112th." Speaking before supporters at Fiorelli's in Blakely Mr. Munley said, "We did everything we needed to do. I take my hat off to my two opponents." During the campaign, Mr. Munley targeted Mr. Farina's personal finances with campaign ads, asking how Mr.

Farina could handle public finances if he couldn't handle his own. Mr. Farina responded with his own ad Tuesday featuring a May 19 letter from a bank stating he had handled his obligations with that bank and that his accounts are in good standing. Mr Farina lauded Mr Haggerty for "taking the high road" during the campaign and said Mr. Munley's ads were "very deceitful." Regarding Mr.

Farina's characterization of Mr. Munley's ads as negative, Mr. Munley responded in a post-election interview, "The ads were the ads. I felt it was factual." VOTE TOTALS Democrat Frank Farina 5,753 Kevin Haggerty 4,843 Bob Munley 2,379 Contact the writers: jlockwoodtimesshamrock.com, sscintotimesshamrock.com, jlockwoodTT, sscintoTT for GOP in House 1 17th Boback defeats nard "Buz" Boback, and they have two adult children. Ms.

Dickson, who is Wyoming County auditor, lives in Tunkhannock Twp. with her husband, James R. Dickson. VOTE TOTALS Democrat Laura Dickson 2,512 Republican Karen Boback 3,710 Davis C. Haire 1,975 ROBERT L.

BAKER, staff writer, contributed to this report. Contact the writer: eskrapitscitizensvoice.com Boback received 1,847 votes and Mr. Haire had 391. Ms. Dickson got 1,062 votes.

In Lackawanna County, with all precincts reporting, Ms. Boback had 232 votes to Mr. Haire's 197. Ms. Dickson received 277.

Ms. Boback was first elected in 2006 to replace the newly retired George Hasay She taught in the Tunkhannock Area School District and was adjunct professor at Miseri-cordia and Wilkes universities. She is married to Ber BY ELIZABETH SKRAPITS STAFF WRITER State Rep. Karen Boback successfully fended off her primary challenger, Davis C. Haire of Meshoppen, in the 117th District state House race.

At her post-election party at the Lakeside Skillet in Harveys Lake, Ms. Boback hollered in delight when she learned she had secured the Republican nomination. "I am ecstatic," she said. "I worked so hard. I had Haire, an ophthalmologist in private practice, ran as a conservative in an election that at times tended toward negative attacks.

Unofficial counts show that, with all precincts reporting, Ms. Boback had 1,631 votes in Wyoming County, and Mr. Haire received 1,387. Ms. Dickson received 1,173 votes.

There are 109 absentee ballots outstanding, which will be counted Friday In Luzerne County, with all precincts reporting, Ms. BOBACK DICKSON the most extraordinary volunteers." Ms. Boback, a Harveys Lake resident, is seeking a sixth term in the state House of Representatives. She will face Democrat Laura Dickson in the Nov. 4 primary Mr.