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WILKES-BARRE – A Hazleton councilman is appealing a Luzerne County judge’s decision that allows Michael Marsicano to run for mayor.
Councilman Jack Mundie had filed an objection to Marsicano’s nomination, saying Marsicano’s primary residence is in Sugarloaf Township, not Hazleton.
At a March hearing on the matter, Mundie’s attorney, James Scallion, showed Court of Common Pleas Judge Mark Ciavarella a document filled out by Marsicano and filed in the county tax assessment office indicating his primary residence was the Sugarloaf home.
But Marsicano and his attorney, Henry Giuliani, argued that the document was from 2004, while Marsicano moved to Lafayette Court in Hazleton in late 2005. He keeps the Sugarloaf home as a summer residence, he said, and his home address in Hazleton is reflected on his driver’s license and documents in the election bureau.
Ciavarella sided with Marsicano, who previously served as mayor of Hazleton, and allowed him to remain on the ballot.
On Monday, Scallion appealed the ruling to the state’s Commonwealth Court.