Community advocate Jodi Borello has officially announced her candidacy for the Pennsylvania State Senate in the 46th District. She is running as an independent candidate and will face incumbent Republican Camera Bartolotta and Democrat Evan Snyder. Borello says her platform centers on ‘economic accountability, public health and revitalizing local small businesses’. In a release, Borello says she ‘aims to break through traditional party lines and take on the corruption in both political parties to provide direct, unbossed representation for the residents of Washington, Beaver and Greene Counties’. She admits to facing ‘a steep institutional hurdle’ running outside the traditional two-party system.