By Rich Cholodofsky
Trib Total Media
The balance of political power in Rostraver Township shifted recently when two of the township’s commissioners changed their political affiliations from Democrat to Republican.
In January, board Chairman John Lorenzo, who was elected in November as a Democrat, and Henry Boldyzar Jr., whose current four-year term started last year, switched parties and, in doing so, gave Republicans a 3-2 board majority.
Boldyzar previously served about a year as the elected chairman of Westmoreland County’s Democratic Committee before he resigned the post in 2015.
“They are folks we’ve been courting and they expressed that the Democratic Party as it stands today no longer represents their core values,” said Bob MacPherson, chairman of the county Republican District 4 committee, which includes Rostraver.
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