{"id":295726,"date":"2026-09-28T19:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295726\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T19:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:21:16","slug":"erie-county-democrats-re-elect-jeremy-zellner-to-8th-term-as-party-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295726\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie County Democrats re-elect Jeremy Zellner to 8th term as party chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Erie County Democrats on Saturday re-elected Jeremy Zellner to an eighth two-year term as party chair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The <a data-ylk=\"slk:Erie County Democratic Committee;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/politics\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Erie County Democratic Committee<\/a> said Zellner won more than 85 percent of the weighted vote at Saturday&#8217;s biennial reorganizational meeting. Zellner beat two challengers during the first round of voting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Party treasurer Olivia Owens was also re-elected to a second term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Four new vice chairs were also elected, including county legislature chair Tim Meyers and West Seneca Democratic chair Amy Kobler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;When I spoke to my fellow Erie County Democrats today, I talked about the big victories we have celebrated,&#8221; Zellner, 48, said in a statement. &#8220;And, yes, the defeats we sometimes endured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;After all these years, I am still honored to have the faith, friendship, and support of a great committee, and still as optimistic and excited about our future as I was my first day on the job. Through all the challenges and changes of the past 10 years in particular, we have forged a united party capable of weathering internal debates and emerging stronger than ever before.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie County Democrats on Saturday re-elected Jeremy Zellner to an eighth two-year term as party chair. The Erie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,142,138,137,16907,113289],"class_list":["post-295726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-county","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-jeremy-zellner","tag-party-chair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295726","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=295726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}