{"id":83287,"date":"2026-01-10T14:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T14:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/83287\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T14:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T14:07:19","slug":"local-activist-throws-hat-in-ring-in-pa-7th-district-race-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/83287\/","title":{"rendered":"Local activist throws hat in ring in Pa. 7th District race | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; A local activist on Friday announced his candidacy for the United States House of Representatives in Pennsylvania\u2019s 7th Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Shupe is looking to run in the Democratic primary, according to a filing with the Federal Election Commission.<\/p>\n<p>In his Friday announcement, Shupe said he is a retired professional with more than 35 years of experience in information technology and would bring a systems-level perspective to public policy.<\/p>\n<p>The district covers Lehigh, Northampton, and Carbon counties, as well as parts of Monroe County.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R) currently holds the seat. He defeated Democratic Rep. Susan Wild in the November election.<\/p>\n<p>Other Democratic candidates that would take him on include: Northampton County Executive Lamont McClure; Carol Obando-Derstine, who worked as a PPl supervisor; Ryan Crosswell, a former federal prosecutor; Lehigh County Controller Mark Pinsley; retired Bethlehem firefighter and President of the Professional Fire Fighters Association, Bob Brookes; and Bethlehem resident Aiden Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania\u2019s primary election is scheduled to take place Tuesday, May 19, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Shupe, visit his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shupeforcongress.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">official website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON &#8211; A local activist on Friday announced his candidacy for the United States House of Representatives in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[9276,5179,153,155,154,8552,2028,34218,9292,9297,40420,17333,434,28,5169,41841,5166,382,40413,8551],"class_list":["post-83287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-american-political-candidates","tag-american-politicians","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-democratic-party-united-states","tag-legislative-branch-of-the-united-states-government","tag-lower-houses","tag-members-of-the-united-states-congress","tag-members-of-the-united-states-house-of-representatives","tag-members-of-the-united-states-house-of-representatives-from-pennsylvania","tag-national-lower-houses","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-politicians","tag-people-from-pennsylvania","tag-politics-of-pennsylvania","tag-politics-of-the-united-states","tag-susan-wild","tag-united-states-house-of-representatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83287","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=83287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}