Nick Mastros is a 33-year resident of Ross Township. Nick and his wife, Evelyn have been married for 26 years and have one daughter, Nicole. Nicole is graduate of North Hills School District and will be graduating from college this spring. Nick grew up in the City of Pittsburgh and lived in Bellevue and the Northside for several years prior to settling in Ross Township.

Nick has been a local business owner in the Northside of Pittsburgh for over 40 years. A 1975 graduate of Peabody High School, he went on to attend Community College of Allegheny County before venturing into business.

Most known for his restaurant, the Allegheny Sandwich Shoppe on Western Avenue in the Northside, Nick established this neighborhood cornerstone in 1981. Over the years, he expanded the Shoppe to include several other locations in Downtown Pittsburgh. He further diversified his business interests with companies in event parking and real estate.

As a well-established restaurant owner, Nick was invited to serve on the Allegheny County Health Department Advisory Board, and is a member of the Pennsylvania Masonic Blue Lodge Perry-Ionic Lodge, #796 F&AM.

Over the years, Nick has gladly supported community youth programs and athletics through financial contributions and donations.

Nick’s greatest asset and distinction is real-life, real-world experience. Longevity provides the opportunity to gain certain lessons, insights, and knowledge that you cannot learn in a classroom.

Nick has sustained a business for over four decades. This required hard-work and perseverance to navigate and withstand ever-changing economic conditions, as well as a keen sense of commitment and responsibility to employees who count on him for income to sustain their own families.

Longevity not only provides extensive experience but is also a testament to the ability and qualification of this candidate to serve and deliver results to his community as the next State Representative for the 20th District.

Throughout his career, Josh Shapiro has stood up for the people of Pennsylvania, taken on the status quo, and delivered results. Josh grew up in Pennsylvania, watching his parents serve their community — and it was their example that inspired him to enter into public service. He helped write and pass some of the toughest ethics laws in state history, led a fiscal and ethical turnaround in Montgomery County, and has taken on the powerful and well-connected as Attorney General. As Governor, Josh Shapiro will continue to take on the big fights and bring people together to get things done.

Abigail Salisbury is a solo attorney with a practice focused on serving nonprofits and small businesses which might otherwise not have access to legal services. She is in her fifth year on Swissvale Borough Council and served the past two years as Council President. With her background as a small business owner, lawyer, and municipal elected official, Abigail focuses on getting things done from a bottom-up, nuts-and-bolts, practical point of view.

As Council President, Abigail developed her “Service, Safety, Success” approach to servant leadership, which she brings with her into her campaign for PA House District 34. The most important thing about being a public servant is right there in the name: serving the public. That is why constituent services form the bedrock of the Salisbury for PA platform. She wants the Representative’s office to be a place in which community members feel they can seek assistance and exchange ideas.

We all want to live in safe communities that are environmentally healthy and policed in careful, appropriate ways. That is why Abigail Salisbury led efforts to implement composting programs in Swissvale, removing 25 tons of waste annually from the trips to the dump and turning it into fertilizer instead. It is also why she reformed the police hiring process when she was elected by her peers to serve as Swissvale Council President, making it a collaborative process that is focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion principles, as well as de-escalation and accountability. Finally, we deserve safe infrastructure that does not fall down and endanger lives. Abigail had to deal with the collapse of Swissvale’s municipal building as Council President, as well as landslides and sewer inadequacies, and she recognizes that we cannot continue to ignore our area’s deterioration any longer.

Success is vital to the future of our region and its residents. Everyone deserves an opportunity to attend high-quality schools that provide a great education and set up students for careers of their choosing, whether they pursue a trade or go to college. Abigail believes in the importance of small businesses to creating jobs, revitalizing once-vibrant commercial business districts, and building the culture of our communities. Abigail Salisbury believes that we must foster and project success in our region.

Growing up in the Mon Valley in western Pennsylvania – a longtime industrial center outside Pittsburgh – Austin Davis saw the struggles of working families firsthand. He watched his mom – a hairdresser in McKeesport for more than 40 years – juggle raising a family with putting food on the table, and he watched his dad work hard every day as an ATU bus driver.

Austin knew from an early age he wanted to dedicate his life and career to public service. Throughout his career, he has fought for economic equality, worked to lift people out of poverty and secure fair funding for education, and has been committed to bettering the lives of people in western Pennsylvania.

In high school, when he felt young people needed a voice in city government, Austin founded and served as chairman of the Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council under McKeesport Mayor Jim Brewster. Working with city leaders, Austin helped combat rising youth violence and provided the young people of McKeesport with more opportunities to get involved in civic life.

Austin is a first generation college graduate in his family, and after studying political science at the University of Pittsburgh, he began pursuing a career in public service. By the age of 21, the Tribune-Review called him “a veteran at the politics of helping others.”

Beginning in 2012, Austin joined Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald’s team, spearheading the office’s vision and transition teams in the early days of the administration and serving as Fitzgerald’s representative on the Jail Oversight Board; the Kane Foundation; the Minority, Women, and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Advisory Board; and the Shuman Detention Center Advisory Board.

Then in 2018, Austin successfully ran for the state House of Representatives to represent the Mon Valley and his hometown of McKeesport.

Rep. Austin Davis took the oath of office to serve the people of the Mon Valley on February 5, 2018. When he was sworn in, Austin became the first African American to serve as state representative for the 35th Legislative District in Allegheny County, and he became one of only four African American lawmakers to represent a majority-white district.

Currently, Austin serves as chair of the Allegheny County House Democratic Delegation and vice chair of the House Democratic Policy Committee, as well as serving on the House Appropriations Committee, House Consumer Affairs Committee, House Insurance Committee, and House Transportation Committee. Austin is also a member of the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus, Climate Caucus, and PA SAFE Caucus.

Austin remains committed to the Mon Valley and McKeesport, serving as a board member of the Port Authority of Allegheny County, YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh, Communities in Schools of Pittsburgh, and Auberle.

Austin currently resides in McKeesport with his wife, Blayre Holmes Davis.

Mandy Steele is a Fox Chapel Councilperson, founder and operator of two nonprofits, mom of four, and graduate of the University of Pittsburgh. Her hard work, coalition building, and passion has brought her uniquely qualifying experience and expertise.

In 2019, Mandy ran for Council in Fox Chapel after years of organizing in the community and petitioning for access and change. She won. In fact, she is the first Democrat and first female elected to Council after running in its first contested election in its almost 100 year history. As soon as she took office, she hit the ground running.

While on Council, Mandy has led the charge to ban Coal Tar, a main component in our air and water pollution, making her municipality the first in Pennsylvania to ban the substance. She championed the removal of a racial slur against Native American women from named places in the community, a term that has since been recognized by the Department of the Interior as a racial slur. Additionally, due to her efforts, Mandy’s community became an early adopter of a solar installation that will power municipal functions with clean energy while saving taxpayer money. All of this while navigating entering a global pandemic three months into her tenure.

In her spare time, she takes what she learns on Council, and she works outward, knowing that none of us succeed until all of us succeed. She has, thus far, presented and influenced the passage of the ban on Coal Tar in 20 Southwestern PA municipalities. She has also begun working with school districts and other municipalities to consider solar energy.

In the past year, Mandy has united with her mayor to form the Fox Chapel Parks Conservancy, a nonprofit dedicated to the community’s green spaces and conservation. She also runs an operation that supports West African girls receiving funding for their education through goat breeding programs.

Born and raised in O’Hara TWP alongside her four siblings, Mandy grew up hearing stories of relatives that built the steel bridges that span the Allegheny. Her family taught her to take pride in her community – to give back, to serve. Mandy and her husband are raising their four kids not far from where she grew up and instilling in them those same values. They are growing up caring for a small backyard farm with goats, chickens, and guinea fowl, learning to hunt and fish, and care for our neighbors.

Mandy Steele has deep roots here and intimately understands the hardworking families that built our communities – that is her family and her story. She knows that with a hardworking State Representative in District 33 who is willing to bring everyone to the table, we can rebuild our valley into the vibrant economic hub it once was.

Chris was born and raised in the Pittsburgh area where his parents instilled in him the importance of service and hard work. After graduating from the US Naval Academy, Deluzio was commissioned as an active-duty naval officer, later deploying at sea and then to Iraq with an Army Civil Affairs unit. After his tour of duty in Iraq, Chris went on to earn his law degree from Georgetown and later worked at the Brennan Center for Justice on voting rights and election security issues.

Chris is the policy director of the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security. His work has focused on voting rights, elections, and the intersection of technology and civil rights, and he was a proud member of the Pitt Faculty Organizing Committee that won the biggest union election in the country last year alongside the United Steelworkers. Chris is often a local and national contributor on issues of voting and election security.

He resides in Allegheny County with his wife Zoe, their three young children, and dog, Yankee Doodle. You can follow Chris on Facebook & Twitter @chrisforpa.