{"id":11050,"date":"2016-01-29T08:51:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T13:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=11050"},"modified":"2016-01-29T08:57:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T13:57:42","slug":"httpwww-thevalleyledger-comp1904-140","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=11050","title":{"rendered":"January 28th\u2013 HD-183: Phillips Armstrong, Campaign Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Phillips Armstrong has announced his candidacy to be the next representative of the 183<sup>rd<\/sup> Pennsylvania legislative district. Mr. Armstrong is the current president of the Whitehall Township Board of commissioners. He made his announcement Thursday evening at the Tri Boro Sportsman Club in Northampton Borough infront of a crowd of about 100 supporters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">After Ed Hozza, the mayor of Whitehall, \u00a0endorsed and introduced the candidate, Mr. Armstrong addressed the crowd and stated \u201cI have always had a lifelong desire to make an impact and a difference in my community, and it&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve decided to run for State Representative.\u00a0 Too many in Harrisburg have forgotten about making a difference, and as a result, they&#8217;ve failed the people who sent them there in the first place.\u201d\u00a0 He continued, \u201cIn Harrisburg, my first priority will always be to the citizens of my district, not a political ideology. I&#8217;ll work with both Democrats and Republicans in order to pass a realistic budget and make the education of our youth a top priority again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Mr. Armstrong is a long time resident of Whitehall where he resides with his wife Annette. He recently retired from teaching in the Whitehall-Coplay School District.\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. Armstrong received recognition as a highly respected educator.\u00a0 He was chosen as the Social Studies Dept. Chair at the High School, and the Secondary Education Chairperson for the Middle States Council on Social Studies, while also serving as an adjunct Professor at Lehigh County Community College.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Mr. Armstrong was a successful coach who is in both the Whitehall High School Hall Of Fame, and the Lehigh Valley Sports Hall of fame. He also served as the Student Council Adviser, Mock Trial coach, Ski Club Adviser, and Class adviser for various graduating classes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Press Release Provided By:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> Hilllary Smith<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> Press Release Contact:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> Phillips Armstrong<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> armstrongp2011@yahoo.com<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner7036'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com' target=\"_blank\" data-id='7036' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=7036\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,523,482],"tags":[2041,2040,689],"class_list":["post-11050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-political","category-press-release-2","tag-phillip-armstrong","tag-state-representative","tag-whitehall"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Phillip-Armstrong-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}