Convention Report: Swann Holds Election Rally

The first night of the College Republican State Convention ended with a highly energetic rally for gubernatorial candidate, Lynn Swann. The auditorium was filled with excited College Republicans from all around the state ready to go to work for the former-Steeler-turned-politician.

Swann spoked passionately about living out the American dream, being just a private citizen who has no interest in "career politics." Swann addressed the fact that he has little to no previous political experience, saying that if we judged candidates by those standards then people like Mitt Romney and Ronald Reagan would have never been elected governor. He stressed the issue of giving Rendell a "free ticket" for re-election, just because he's an incumbent.

"We all make mistakes," he said, "and in 2002, Pennsylvania made a mistake by electing Ed Rendell... now we're going to fix that mistake."

Lynn Swann is already the first African American Republican to run for PA governor, and he hopes to be the first candidate to unseat an incumbent in PA.