TIME LEGISLATOR. >>’ ITS GOING TO BE A CHANGE IN PENN HILLS, IN HARRISBURG. ALL THE PEOPLE THAT LOVED HIM YA KNOW. HE WASN’T JUST STATE REPRESENTATIVE. . HE WAS UNCLE TONY SITTING IN A SEAT AND THATS WHAT IM GONNA MISS ABOUT HIM REPORTER: WYNONA HARPER SPENT YEARS WORKING WITH STATE REPRESENTATIVE TONY DELUCA ON COMMUNITY ISSUES IN PENN HILLS. SHE SAYS SHE HAD KNOWN HIM SINCE SHE WAS A YOUNG CHILD AS DID FORMER STATE REP DOM COSTA. >> TONY WAS SO DEVOTED TO HIS PEOPLE. HE WOULD CALL ME AND SAY HEY THIS GUY NEEDS A WATER HEATER AND HE CANNOT AFFORD IT. IS THERE ANYWAY WAY WE CAN HELP THEM? YOU DO NOT FIND PEOPLE LIKE THAT. . WE WILL NEVER HAVE ANOTHER ONE LIKE HIM. REPORTER: DELUCA’S OLDEST GRANDSON SAYS HE WAS SO COMMITTED TO THE PENN HILLS, PLUM, VERONA AND OAKMONT COMMUNITIES THAT SHE SERVED THAT HE WAS VOTING REMOTELY UP UNTIL JUST BEFORE HIS DEATH. AND YOUNG ANTHONY DELUCA SAYS HIS GRANDFATHER PASSED THAT COMMITMENT TO THEM. >> HE ALWAYS INSTILLED IN US REACHING OUT AND HELPING OTHER AND I ALWAYS REMEMBER THERE WAS A SENIOR CHRISTMAS SING ALONG , THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS HE DID. REPORTER: TONY DELUCA WAS RUNNING FOR RE-ELECTION. HIS NAME WILL REMAIN ON THE BALLOT BUT HIS SEAT WILL BE FILLED BY SPECIAL ELECTION. MIKE: THE SPEAKER OF THE PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE, SAYS TONY DELUCA’S LEGACY WILL LIVE ON IN STATE GOVERNMENT. REPUBLICAN BRYAN CUTLER SAID IN A STATEMENT DELUCA’S UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO HIS DISTRICT COULD NEVER BE QUESTIONED, AND HIS EFFORTS ON BEHALF OF ALL PENNSYLVANIANS, AND IN PARTICULAR CHILDREN, AS THE DEMOCRATIC CHAIR OF THE HOUSE INSURANCE COMMITTEE WILL HAVE AN IMPACT FOR MANY YEARS TO COME. SHANNON: AND WE GOT THIS STATEMENT FROM ALLEGHENY COUNTY EXECUTIVE RICH FITZGERALD ON TONY DELUCA. HE SAYS, HIS WORK ETHIC WAS REWARDED, ELECTION AFTER ELECTION, AS THE PEOPLE OF HIS DISTRICT KNEW HE WAS ALWAYS WORKING FOR THEM. HIS ANNUAL PICNIC IN PENN HILLS PARK WAS ALWAYS A HIGHLIGHT OF THE POLITICAL SEASON, AND WAS ATTENDED BY GOVERNORS, U.S. SENATORS, AND NATIONAL AND STATEWIDE FIGURES. VISITATION FOR REPRESENTATIVE DELUCA WILL BE HELD WEDNESDAY FROM 2:00 UNTIL 8:00 AT GROSS FUNERAL HOME IN PENN HILLS. A FUNERAL MASS AT JOSEPH CHURCH
Tony DeLuca projected to have won PA's 32nd Legislative Seat posthumously
DeLuca died in October after serving for 39 years in a district representing part of Allegheny County.
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Updated: 9:54 PM EST Nov 8, 2022
Pennsylvania state Rep. Tony DeLuca has won re-election in Pennsylvania's 32nd Legislative District one month after his death. DeLuca died on Oct. 9 of complications from lymphoma. He was 85. Press secretary Nicole Reigelman said in an email to Pittsburgh's Action News 4 back in October that this election would "proceed as scheduled, and his seat will be filled by a special election, likely in early spring."Pennsylvania's 32nd Legislative District is comprised of Penn Hills, Verona, the majority of Plum and, now, Oakmont for 39 years.DeLuca was running posthumously against Green candidate Queonia Livingston.A resident of Penn Hills for over 60 years, DeLuca got his start in politics serving on the Penn Hills Government Study Commission that helped draft the municipality's Home Rule Charter, then five years as a Penn Hills councilman, followed by two years as Penn Hills deputy mayor before running for his state House seat. DeLuca served as the Democratic chairman of the House Insurance Committee for 20 years.
Pennsylvania state Rep. Tony DeLuca has won re-election in Pennsylvania's 32nd Legislative District one month after his death.
DeLuca died on Oct. 9 of complications from lymphoma. He was 85.
Press secretary Nicole Reigelman said in an email to Pittsburgh's Action News 4 back in October that this election would "proceed as scheduled, and his seat will be filled by a special election, likely in early spring."
Pennsylvania's 32nd Legislative District is comprised of Penn Hills, Verona, the majority of Plum and, now, Oakmont for 39 years.
DeLuca was running posthumously against Green candidate Queonia Livingston.
A resident of Penn Hills for over 60 years, DeLuca got his start in politics serving on the Penn Hills Government Study Commission that helped draft the municipality's Home Rule Charter, then five years as a Penn Hills councilman, followed by two years as Penn Hills deputy mayor before running for his state House seat.
DeLuca served as the Democratic chairman of the House Insurance Committee for 20 years.
