{"id":125384,"date":"2026-02-27T19:53:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125384\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:53:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:53:37","slug":"ce-ce-gerlach-endorsed-by-josh-siegel-in-pa-house-22nd-district-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125384\/","title":{"rendered":"Ce-Ce Gerlach endorsed by Josh Siegel in Pa. House 22nd District race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allentown City Council member Ce-Ce Gerlach has received a series of high-profile endorsements in her bid for the Democratic nomination to the 22nd District in the state House.<\/p>\n<p>Among the endorsements Gerlach received Friday came from former 22nd District state Rep. Josh Siegel, who resigned from the seat last year when he was elected Lehigh County executive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Ce-Ce understands is that the way through this moment is not to keep our heads down, to stay out of the headlines, and hide from the fight,\u201d Siegel said. \u201cThat\u2019s what\u2019s wrong with the Democratic Party. Nobody believes we will truly fight with the courage of our convictions. Nobody believes we\u2019ll actually deliver for them. And when I was on City Council, Ce-Ce and I were allies, making sure that we showed up for the working people of this city. That\u2019s the kind of courage that we need in the state legislature, and we need in Harrisburg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Ana Tiburcio was elected to serve out the remainder of Siegel\u2019s term through December, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/02\/24\/pa-house-special-election-22nd-district-lehigh-county\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in a special election Tuesday<\/a>. Tiburcio, who was selected by local and state Democrats to appear on the ballot in the special election, is also expected to run in the May 19 primary for the full term.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Robert Smith Jr., who lost to Tiburcio in the special election, is expected to run unopposed in the May primary for his party\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Siegel,\u00a0the Pennsylvania Working Families Party, Make the Road Action Pennsylvania, Lehigh Valley DSA and Lehigh County Commissioner Jon Irons also endorsed Gerlach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am incredibly thankful to these organizations and officials for their endorsements,\u201d Gerlach said. \u201cWe\u2019re sick and tired of status-quo politics, because status-quo politics aren\u2019t working. We need people who are willing to go to Harrisburg and fight for working people. I\u2019m not one to back down from a fight, and that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do, side-by-side with all of you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allentown City Council member Ce-Ce Gerlach has received a series of high-profile endorsements in her bid for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,153,155,154,836,433,182,139,28,50,432],"class_list":["post-125384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-election","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-politics","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}