Here is the third of our "70 Questions" Q&As with candidates for the 1st Senate District seat being vacated by Vincent Fumo. Today, it's John Dougherty. Below is a sampling of that interview, with a link to the full version and to the other candidates' interviews:Committee of 70: Would there come a point, if your political career advances, where you would relinquish the union leadership?
Dougherty: I don't think -- right now that guarantees me I won't be a freshman senator. I come in there with the impact and the power that we've developed over the years at Local 98. We've spent a lot of money on both sides of the aisles. So I won't be a back-bench senator. I'll be someone who has relationships on both sides of the aisles, who has been involved in legislation, who has been credited for passing legislation, someone who understands the political apparatus and has a political appatarus. It's actually a positive.
