When Chris Dush announced in November that he would honor his pledge to serve no more than three terms in the state legislature, the 66th District Republican did not say much about his future plans. Now we know what he intends to do next: Dush has announced that he will run for State Auditor General.
Dush told the website PoliticsPA that he had been planning to run for State Senate when there was speculation that Senate president Pro Tempore Joe Scarnatti was considering retirement, but when Scarnatti announced in December that he would run again, Dush decided to seek the Auditor General post. Current Auditor General Eugene DePasquale cannot run for a third term because of a term limit imposed by the state constitution.
Dush’s 66th District includes all of Jefferson County and in Indiana County, the townships of Banks, Canoe, East Mahoning, Grant, Green, Montgomery, North Mahoning, Rayne, South Mahoning, and West Mahoning, along with the boroughs of Cherry Tree, Ernest, Glen Campbell, Marion Center, Plumville, and Smicksburg.
Dush was elected in 2014 to replace retiring Speaker of the House Sam Smith, and was re-elected in 2016 and 2018, capturing almost eighty percent of the vote in the 2018 race.
