The chairman of the Democratic Party of Carbon County, Billy O'Gurek Jr., has been elected to chair the 11-county Northeast Caucus of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party.

O'Gurek was the unanimous choice of state committee members from the northeast delegation who attended the Pennsylvania Democratic Party's summer reorganizational meeting on Saturday at the Radisson-Harrisburg, Camp Hill.He will succeed Joe Long of Northampton County in directing the regional counties in state party concerns. In addition to Carbon and Northampton counties, the Northeast Caucus includes Schuylkill, Monroe, Luzerne, Lackawanna, Pike, Wyoming, Wayne, Bradford and Susquehanna counties.In addition to O'Gurek, the caucus members elected Susan Lyons of Monroe County to serve as vice chairwoman and Colleen Eagen Gerrity of Lackawanna County as secretary of the delegation. Paul Maher of Luzerne County was re-elected the caucus' treasurer.During the weekend events, over 300 state committee men and women gathered for the party's reorganizational session, re-electing Jim Burn of Allegheny County as chairman, as well as Penny Gerber of Montgomery County as vice chairwoman and Jack Hanna of Indiana County as party treasurer.The Northeast Caucus is one of eight caucuses of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party. The others include Allegheny, Northwest, North-Central, Southwest, South-Central, Southeast and Philadelphia.O'Gurek was re-elected chairman of the Democratic Party of Carbon County during its reorganizational meeting held June 7 in Nesquehoning.Joining him in participation in the state meeting was attorney Carol Walbert of Jim Thorpe, who is the party's elected state committeewoman.