Jonathan A. Saidel is a politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
After incumbent Philadelphia City Controller Joe Vignola announced his resignation in late 1987, in preparation for a campaign against incumbent Republican Senator John Heinz[2] in 1988, Saidel announced his intention to enter the Democratic primary for the race to succeed him.
He won the Democratic primary, held in the spring of 1989, and narrowly defeated the Republican nominee, State Senator Joe Rocks, in the fall general election.
Saidel sought the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor in 2010.
Ultimately came in second in a three-person field, ahead of Doris Smith-Ribner, a former Commonwealth Court Judge from Pittsburgh, and behind the winner, State Representative Scott Conklin of Philipsburg, Centre County.