{"id":272492,"date":"2026-08-26T10:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272492\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T10:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:49:13","slug":"watch-special-election-debate-for-22nd-house-district-in-allentown-area-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272492\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Special election debate for 22nd House District in Allentown area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 The candidates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleynews.com\/elections\/guridy-out-as-special-election-candidate-democrats-put-forth-ana-tiburcio-in-surprise-move?ref=lehighvalleypublicmedia.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to represent the Allentown-area\u2019s 22nd House District<\/a> met head-to-head Thursday in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleynews.com\/elections\/debate-set-for-22nd-house-district-special-election-candidates-at-da-vinci-science-center?ref=lehighvalleypublicmedia.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">debate organized by Lehigh Valley Public Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eY_vDVi7S7cDemocrat Ana Tiburcio and Republican Robert E. Smith Jr. took the stage at Da Vinci Science Center, 815 Hamilton St.<\/p>\n<p>Tiburcio and Smith are on the ballot in a Feb. 24 special election to fill the unexpired term of former state Rep. Joshua Siegel, who now is Lehigh County executive.<\/p>\n<p>The forum was moderated by reporters Tom Shortell and Jason Addy of <a href=\"https:\/\/lehighvalleynews.com\/?ref=lehighvalleypublicmedia.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LehighValleyNews.com<\/a>. It was broadcast live on PBS39 and streamed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@PBS39?ref=lehighvalleypublicmedia.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PBS39&#8217;s YouTube channel<\/a> and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleynews.com\/?ref=lehighvalleypublicmedia.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LehighValleyNews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The hourlong debate was free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the replay now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 The candidates to represent the Allentown-area\u2019s 22nd House District met head-to-head Thursday in a debate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-272492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272492","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=272492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}