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State Sen. Lisa Boscola, left, and Scott Janney \/ Contributed photos<\/p>\nState Sen. Lisa Boscola, left, and Scott Janney \/ Contributed photos<\/p>\n
State Sen. Lisa Boscola, who is seeking her eighth four-year term representing the 18th District, has raised vastly more money than Republican challenger Scott Janney, according to campaign finance reports filed with the state.<\/p>\n
Heading into the Nov. 3 election, Friends of Lisa Boscola has $651,730 available for the fall campaign while the Vote for Scott Janney committee has $3,824.<\/p>\n
Boscola, a Democrat and the Lehigh Valley\u2019s senior senator, has more cash on hand than the area\u2019s two other senators, who are also seeking reelection \u2013 Nick Miller<\/a> (D-14), $646,693, and Jarrett Coleman<\/a> (R-16), $502,993. They also hold significant fundraising advantages over their opponents.<\/p>\n The 18th District comprises the eastern half of Northampton County and all of Bethlehem, including the Lehigh County portion of the city.<\/p>\n Janney Major contributors include PA Future Fund, a political action committee affiliated with Robert Asher, a Montgomery County Republican powerbroker and chairman of the family chocolate company, $5,000; Asher also contributed $5,000; Charles Baltic, owner of Buttercup Farm, Mount Bethel, $3,000.<\/p>\n On the expense side, campaign coordinator Andrew Young of Bethlehem received $5,520 and Lehigh Valley Print Center was paid $3,418 for campaign signs, flyers and cards.<\/p>\n Boscola Major contributors include Greater PA Carpenters, $3,000; Ironworkers Political Action League, $3,000; International Union of Operating Engineers Local 542, $5,000; Wind Creek Bethlehem LLC, Bethlehem, $13,000; PA Automotive Association PAC, $5,000; Operating Engineers Local 542; $5,000; Citizens for Hughes, the campaign committee for state Sen. Vincent Hughes, $6,000.<\/p>\n Individual donors included Raymond Lahoud, lawyer from Coopersburg, $10,000; J.B. Reilly, president of City Center Group, Allentown; $5,000; Joseph Topper, Bethlehem, an owner of City Center Group, $5,000; Northampton County District Attorney Stephen Baratta, $1,000; Randy Galiotto, owner, Alloy 5, Bethlehem, $5,000; Louis Pektor, president, Ashley Development, Bethlehem, $5,000; and Carlos Tavares, Bethlehem, $5,000.<\/p>\n Expenses included Celeste Dee of Bethlehem, $16,534, for consulting and reimbursements; Aidan Levinson of Zionsville, $1,604, for website design and hosting; Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, $30,000; and Easton City Councilman Frank Pintabone and Baron Vanderburg, $2,000 each for nominating petition work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State Sen. Lisa Boscola, left, and Scott Janney \/ Contributed photos State Sen. Lisa Boscola, who is seeking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-256219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256219","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=256219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Since announcing his campaign last year, Janney raised $15,114 and spent $11,290, through June 8, the end of the most recent reporting period.<\/p>\n
Boscola began 2025 with $504,349 in the bank. Since then, her campaign raised $249,038 and spent $101,657 through June 8.<\/p>\n