CeaseFirePA, a gun violence prevention organization, has endorsed Erie Mayor Joe Sinnott’s re-election bid.

Sinnott, a Democrat, is one of 12 Pennsylvania mayors or mayoral candidates endorsed by the group. Sinnott faces Republican Jack Anderson in Tuesday’s municipal election, and the incumbent is widely expected to easily win a second four-year term in the city’s top job.

A recent CeaseFirePA press release stated that the group chose to endorse mayors who have “taken a leadership role, standing up for local efforts to pass common sense reforms to reduce access to illegal handguns.”

Other mayors/candidates endorsed by the group include:

• Munhall – Mayor Raymond Bodnar
• Homestead – Mayor Betty Esper
• West Homestead – Mayor John Dindak
• Lancaster – Mayor Richard Gray
• Oxford – Mayor Geoff Henry
• Allentown – Mayor Ed Pawlowski
• Pottsville – Mayor John Reiley
• Wilkinsburg – Mayor John Thompson
• Pittsburgh – Mayor Luke Ravenstahl
• Harrisburg – Council President Linda Thompson
• York – Kim Bracey
  

–Kevin Flowers