<\/p>\n Democrat Ana Tiburcio wins Pa. 22nd District seat in special election<\/a><\/p>\n
Ana Tiburcio defeated Republican former school board member Robert E. Smith Jr. in the 22nd Legislative District election. She won more than 67% of the vote and will replace Democrat Joshua Siegel, who resigned from the House to take office as Lehigh County executive.<\/p>\n
The Pennsylvania Working Families Party, Make the Road Action Pennsylvania, Lehigh Valley DSA, Lehigh County Executive Josh Siegel, and Lehigh County Commissioner Jon Irons endorsed Ce-Ce Gerlach in the primary for State House in Pennsylvania\u2019s 22nd legislative district, according to a news release.<\/p>\n
\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. That’s what’s wrong with the Democratic Party,\u201d said County Executive Josh Siegel.<\/p>\n
Gerlach was first elected to the Allentown City Council in 2019 and was the top vote getter on the ballot for city council during her re-election in the 2023 Democratic primary, the news release said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am incredibly thankful to these organizations and officials for their endorsements. We\u2019re sick and tired of status-quo politics, because status-quo politics aren\u2019t working,\u201d said Ce-Ce Gerlach, candidate for HD-22. \u201cWe 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, Pa. \u2014 Allentown city councilwoman Ce-Ce Gerlach, who is running for State Representative, received multiple endorsements on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232],"class_list":["post-125405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125405","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=125405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}