Wolf Announces Replacement Of Port Authority Board Member Involved In Mysterious Political Committee
By: Chris Potter & Lucy Perkins, 90.5 WESA, April 11, 2019
Robert Kania, a Port Authority of Allegheny County board member and Republican donor, is registering Americans Against Socialism with state election officials – four months after 90.5 WESA first reported on the group’s failure to disclose its activities, and within a day of a Washington D.C. activist group’s call for an investigation of the matter.
Despite the move, Gov. Tom Wolf removed him from the transit agency’s board Thursday afternoon.
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Costa sat on the Port Authority board with Kania, and had been defeated by Innamorato in the Democratic primary that spring. But Americans Against Socialism had not filed a registration statement or financial-disclosures concerning its donors or expenditures, as required by state law.
It did so this week, shortly after Washington D.C.-based Campaign for Accountability called on county elections officials to investigate, citing WESA’s reporting.