7th District Wild Congressional Race
By Bob Small
The 7th Congressional District was the bailiwick of such icons as Pat Meehan, Joe Sestak, and Curt Weldon and even a Mary Gay Scanlon before it became the District of Allentown’s Susan Wild. The shape of the District was described as “Goofy kicking Donald Duck”
Susan Wild became infamous recently for saying, with a later apology, that she was “dismayed” to have Trump-leaning Carbon County added to her District, which also includes Lehigh, Northampton, and a small parcel of Monroe counties.
Though she doesn’t have a Democratic opponent, there are three Republicans vying to take her on in November.
The primary election is April 23.
Maria Montero is bilingual and a first-generation American on her father’s side while her great-grandfather was a Carbon County coal miner.
She grew up in Carbon County.
She is a graduate of St. Joe’s and Widener Law. She has led the Pennsylvania Commission for Women and The Pennsylvania Latino Commission.
Kevin Dellicker with his wife, Susan, wrote Twenty-Percent Soldiers, Our Life in the National Guard
They are the co-founders of Dellicker Strategies Dellicker Strategies – Technology, Solutions, Services a technologies solution company.
He was an economic policy advisor to Tom Ridge and has degrees from Air University, Liberty, Penn State and Syracuse. His family, including three sons, live in Lehigh County. There are 22 issues on his platform.
Ryan Mackenzie is the State Representative for the 187th District.
He is a descendant of a Northampton County Militia soldier in the Revolutionary War.
He is a graduate of NYU and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.
He wants to prohibit congresspeople from trading stocks based on insider information. He also wants term limits.
As a state rep, has voted to eliminate state cars for legislators and for curriculum transparency in K-12 schools.
He lives with his wife, Chloe, and their rescue hound dog, Ruckus, in Lower Macungie Township.
