{"id":195246,"date":"2026-05-17T23:13:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/195246\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T23:13:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:13:26","slug":"gov-shapiro-joins-congressional-candidate-bob-brooks-in-emmaus-election-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/195246\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Shapiro joins congressional candidate Bob Brooks in Emmaus | Election Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EMMAUS, Pa. &#8211; One of of Lamont McClure&#8217;s competitors in the race for Pennsylvania&#8217;s 7th Congressional District, Bob Brooks, was joined by Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro in Lehigh County on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro met with Brooks and his supporters in Emmaus.<\/p>\n<p>State representatives Michael Schlossberg and Peter Schweyer were also there.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks and McClure are running against former federal prosecutor Ryan Crosswell, and former PPL Regional Affairs Director Carol Obando-Derstine.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re all competing to be the Democratic party&#8217;s nominee to take on Republican Ryan Mackenzie in November.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about who&#8217;s on the ballot for the Primary Election, you can check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/election\/ballot\/#tncms-source=Top-Navigation-Election-Ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">69 News&#8217; Election Central<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EMMAUS, Pa. &#8211; One of of Lamont McClure&#8217;s competitors in the race for Pennsylvania&#8217;s 7th Congressional District, Bob&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,836],"class_list":["post-195246","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","tag-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195246","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=195246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}