Lamont McClure
Public service was instilled in me at the kitchen table. My late Dad was a lifelong public servant who made sure that older folks and others had safe, affordable housing in which to live. My Mom broke the glass ceiling on her school board, becoming the first woman to be its President.
We weren’t well-to-do — far from it. My Mom and Dad had their share of financial hardships, but through it all they taught me that whatever God-given talent I may have, I have an obligation to use it in the service of others as well as myself.
That’s why I’m running to serve you in Congress, representing Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District. Whether I was fighting the world’s largest corporations and their insurance companies on behalf of Steelworkers and other Trades people, who through no fault of their own were sickened by asbestos, or while on Northampton County Council battling to protect the elderly residents of our nursing home from being sold out to a for profit corporation, or as County Executive taking on the opioid manufacturers who caused so much death and devastation through the fentanyl crisis, I’ve always been a fighter on your side against the powerful interests.
Carol Obando Derstien,
is an engineer, advocate, educator, and bilingual leader in PA-07 dedicated to serving her community
Carol, a bilingual engineer in PA-07, has dedicated her life to her community. Immigrating from Colombia at three, she overcame financial and language barriers. Inspired by her parents, she worked multiple jobs in high school and volunteered, graduating near the top of her class.
After receiving her master’s from Penn State, Carol went on to build a career dedicated to helping people help themselves. She worked in a Head Start program and became the executive director of two prominent nonprofits: SkillsUSA Council and the Children’s Coalition of the Lehigh Valley. She then served as Sen. Casey’s Regional Manager and Statewide Latino Affairs Advisor, taught at Northampton Community College, volunteered with the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce, and also participated in Gov. Wolf’s Advisory Commission on Latino Affairs.
Carol spent nearly a decade working on energy issues at PPL Electric Utilities, during which she earned her second master’s degree in Energy Systems Engineering from Lehigh University. Carol and her husband Chad have raised their two children in the Lehigh Valley.
Ryan Crosswell
I’m running for Congress because it’s time to stand up for our country again. As a Marine and then a federal prosecutor, I’ve spent my life in service to this country. But when Donald Trump tried to get the prosecutors in my section to use the Department of Justice as a weapon against his enemies, that was something I would never do, so I stepped down. And now, I’m fighting back. To stop big tech and a handful of billionaires from taking our money and our data. To stop Ryan Mackenzie from rigging the economy so the rich get richer but everyday Pennsylvanians have to work harder than ever just to get by. And to stop the biggest threat our Democracy has ever known, even if he’s the President of the United States. I’m Ryan Crosswell. It’s time to stand up for the country we love. Let’s do it together.
Bob Brooks for Congress – PA-07
Bob Brooks is the real deal. A Bethlehem firefighter, President of the Pennsylvania Professional Fire Fighters Association, and a man who has worked as a bartender, landscaper, warehouse worker, and teamster — Bob Brooks knows what it means to show up, work hard, and fight for the people beside you. Now he’s taking that same working-class grit to Washington, running to unseat GOP incumbent Ryan Mackenzie in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District. Bob’s campaign is built on a simple promise: lower costs for families, expand access to healthcare, raise wages for workers, and get corporate and billionaire money out of our politics. Backed by Governor Josh Shapiro, Lt. Governor Austin Davis, Senator Bernie Sanders, SEIU Pennsylvania, and the Working Families Party, Bob Brooks isn’t a politician — he’s a neighbor, a union brother, and a fighter who’s ready to go to work for the Lehigh Valley.
Senator Lisa Boscola has spent her career fighting for the Lehigh Valley — and in the 2025-2026 legislative session, she is doing it from the inside. As Minority Chair of the Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee She is the leading Democratic voice protecting Pennsylvania consumers from bad actors and predatory practices. She also serves on the Banking and Insurance Committee, the Communications and Technology Committee, the Senate Game and Fisheries Committee, and the Law and Justice Committee — five committees that touch the everyday lives of families, workers, and businesses across Northampton and Lehigh Counties. A proud steelworker’s daughter and lifelong Lehigh Valley resident Pennsylvania State Senate, Senator Boscola brings decades of real-world understanding to every vote she casts and every bill she champions. From passing bipartisan legislation to protect consumers from harmful toxins in IV bags, to securing millions in state funding for local infrastructure projects Senator Lisa Boscola, she is not just showing up — she is delivering results. This session, as always, Lisa Boscola is working for you.
Senator Nick Miller is not your typical politician — and the Lehigh Valley is better for it. Elected in 2022 at just 27 years old, he became the youngest Pennsylvanian elected to the State Senate in 135 years, and in 2024 was elected Chair of the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Policy Committee, making him the youngest member in Senate history to hold a leadership position. Nick Miller for PA A fifth-generation Allentown native, Nick brought real-world credentials to Harrisburg — degrees from Penn State and the University of Pennsylvania, professional experience at PricewaterhouseCoopers and IBM, and years of community service including vice president of the Allentown School Board and founder of the Varricchio-Miller Educational Foundation. In the 2025-2026 session, Senator Miller serves as Minority Chair of the Communications and Technology Committee and sits on the Community, Economic and Recreational Development Committee, the Rules and Executive Nominations Committee, the Transportation Committee, and the Urban Affairs and Housing Committee Pennsylvania State Senate — a portfolio that puts him squarely in the fights over infrastructure, housing, economic growth, and the technology shaping our future. Since taking office, Nick has championed historic investments in public education, boosted small businesses and family-sustaining jobs, and backed initiatives that make our communities safer. Nick Miller for PA He is the Lehigh Valley’s next generation of leadership — and he is already delivering.
Some representatives come to Harrisburg to learn the job. Steve Samuelson came knowing it from the inside out. Before winning his seat in 1998, he served as a legislative assistant to Pennsylvania Representatives Paul McHale and Karen Ritter, covered the community as a reporter for the Bethlehem Globe-Times, and spent nearly a decade as a clerk for the Lehigh County Board of Commissioners. He understood how government worked before he ever cast a vote in it. Now in his fourteenth term representing Northampton County’s 135th District, Representative Samuelson serves as Chair of the House Finance Committee Pennsylvania General Assembly in the 2025-2026 session — one of the most consequential leadership roles in the Pennsylvania House, overseeing legislation that shapes how this Commonwealth taxes, funds, and invests in its people. During his career, Samuelson co-authored House Bill 1260, which increased income limits for the PACENET program by $6,000, expanding access to prescription medicine for senior citizens across Pennsylvania. Wikipedia A Bethlehem resident with deep Lehigh Valley roots, Steve Samuelson has spent more than two decades proving that steady, principled leadership delivers real results for working families. Experience like his is not replaced — it is re-elected.
Representative Robert Freeman has spent his life in service to the Easton community and the people of Northampton County’s 136th District — and his record shows it. Freeman first served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1983 to 1994 Ballotpedia, stepped away, and came back in 1998 because the work was not finished. That kind of commitment to public service does not come from ambition — it comes from a genuine bond with the people he represents. A graduate of Moravian College and Lehigh University, where he earned a master’s degree in history, Freeman also brings the perspective of someone who worked as a union shop steward — a man who knows what it means to stand up for working people before he ever stood in the House chamber. In the 2025-2026 session, Representative Freeman serves as Chair of the House Local Government Committee Pennsylvania General Assembly, overseeing the legislation that shapes how Pennsylvania’s municipalities, townships, counties, and boroughs function and serve their residents. This session alone he has co-sponsored legislation to establish an independent redistricting commission in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania General Assembly — a reform he has fought for across multiple sessions because fair maps matter more than political convenience. Bob Freeman is Easton’s anchor in Harrisburg, and the 136th District is better for it.
Some people run for office because it is the next step in a career. Jared Bitting is running because he has lived the stakes. A technology and engineering teacher with more than 25 years in the classroom at Fleetwood Area School District, Jared comes from a family of public servants — his father was a Reading city police officer, his mother a retired nurse, his sister a working nurse today. Substack He brings that same sense of duty and service to his campaign for the 138th District. He has held leadership positions at the national and state level within educators’ associations, including serving as president of the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, and has volunteered to develop and edit state-required science testing for Pennsylvania middle schoolers. Substack On the issues that matter most to working families in Bangor, Pen Argyl, Wind Gap, and across this district, Jared’s positions come from personal experience, not political calculation. His late wife Rebecca passed away from pancreatic cancer after 20 years of marriage, and during her illness she suffered a miscarriage that required a procedure that could now be restricted under changed abortion laws. Substack When Jared says he will fight for reproductive healthcare and women’s right to make their own medical decisions, he means it in a way that goes beyond a talking point. He is a problem solver looking for bipartisan, commonsense solutions to the challenges facing this district Bitting for PA — and this community deserves a representative who shows up with that kind of honesty, experience, and heart.
Jeff Warren has spent his whole life earning the trust of Northampton County — and now he is ready to take that fight to Harrisburg.
Active in local government for more than two decades, Jeff has served on Easton City Council, the Hanover Township Board of Supervisors, and currently serves as a Northampton County Commissioner. LehighValleyNews.com He also spent 13 years as an aide and Director of Outreach to Senator Lisa Boscola PoliticsPA, giving him a firsthand understanding of how state government works — and who it is supposed to work for.
He is running for the 137th District because this community deserves better. He has watched the current State Representative buddy up with warehouse developers and vote against the interests of his own constituents WFMZ.com — and he refused to stay on the sidelines. In Harrisburg, Jeff will fight to fully fund public education, rein in warehouse overdevelopment, expand access to attainable housing, and stand up for working families and unions.
Born and raised in Northampton County. Rooted in this community. Ready to serve.
Jeff Warren for Pennsylvania — people first.
Meriam Sabih is not a career politician. She is a mother of three, a journalist, a community organizer, and a Lehigh Valley resident who has spent years showing up — at the doors, at the polls, at the organizing tables — long before she ever put her name on a ballot. She grew up in a one-bedroom apartment and knows what it means to watch her parents struggle to put food on the table. Meriam Sabih is not a career politician. She is a mother of three, a journalist, a community organizer, and a Lehigh Valley resident who has spent years showing up — at the doors, at the polls, at the organizing tables — long before she ever put her name on a ballot. She grew up in a one-bedroom apartment and knows what it means to watch her parents struggle to put food on the table. Meriamforpa Now she is running for the 131st District in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to make sure the next generation of families in this community can afford to stay, thrive, and build a future here. Sabih’s endorsements include the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania, Moms Demand Action, and Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania Substack — a coalition that reflects her commitment to working families, reproductive freedom, and protecting the Lehigh Valley’s quality of life. She holds a master’s degree in political science from Lehigh University and has been active in local Democratic Party politics as a committee precinct person, poll watcher, and canvasser. WFMZ.com She ran a strong race in 2024, outraising her Republican opponent nearly two to one, and she is back in 2026 because this district deserves better representation and she is the one to deliver it. Her opponent has voted against reproductive rights with no exceptions, for mandatory funerals for fetal remains, against fairly funding public schools, and wanted to overturn Pennsylvania’s elections. Ballotpedia The contrast could not be clearer. Meriam Sabih is running to flip HD-131 — and she has everything it takes to get it done. Now she is running for the 131st District in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to make sure the next generation of families in this community can afford to stay, thrive, and build a future here. Sabih’s endorsements include the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania, Moms Demand Action, and Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania Substack — a coalition that reflects her commitment to working families, reproductive freedom, and protecting the Lehigh Valley’s quality of life. She holds a master’s degree in political science from Lehigh University and has been active in local Democratic Party politics as a committee precinct person, poll watcher, and canvasser. WFMZ.com She ran a strong race in 2024, outraising her Republican opponent nearly two to one, and she is back in 2026 because this district deserves better representation and she is the one to deliver it. Her opponent has voted against reproductive rights with no exceptions, for mandatory funerals for fetal remains, against fairly funding public schools, and wanted to overturn Pennsylvania’s elections. Ballotpedia The contrast could not be clearer. Meriam Sabih is running to flip HD-131 — and she has everything it takes to get it done.
The 183rd District is getting a candidate unlike anyone who has run for this seat before. Deirdre Kamber Todd is an Allentown-based attorney, small business owner, and community leader who has spent her entire career fighting for working people. As managing partner of The Kamber Law Group, she has spent years specializing in labor, employment, and healthcare law THE ORG — which means she does not just talk about workers’ rights in the abstract. She has defended them in courtrooms, in agencies, and at the negotiating table. Before building her Lehigh Valley practice, she represented hundreds of clients in discrimination cases against Fortune 500 companies in Manhattan, and contributed to public health and human rights research at the Harvard School of Public Health. KAMBER LAW LLC She has taught employment law and healthcare law as an adjunct professor, served on the boards of Community Services for Children and the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce THE ORG, and built a professional reputation that spans labor rights, healthcare privacy, civil rights, and small business advocacy. She has been clear about why she is running: Americans should not have to struggle for affordable housing, healthcare, food, bodily autonomy, and the freedom to live privately — and these things should not even be up for debate. The Brown and White Deirdre Kamber Todd brings the credentials, the community roots, and the fighting spirit this district deserves. HD-183 is ready for her.