{"id":132942,"date":"2024-07-20T06:27:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T10:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=132942"},"modified":"2024-07-20T06:27:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T10:27:11","slug":"mackenzie-named-government-leader-of-the-year-by-pennsylvania-defense-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=132942","title":{"rendered":"Mackenzie Named Government Leader of the Year by Pennsylvania Defense Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong><em>\u00a0A photo of Mackenzie and PDI\u2019s incoming president, Daniel Twilla, is attached. Photo credit: Della Watters of WattersWorks.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>HARRISBURG<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-Lehigh) has been named by the Pennsylvania Defense Institute (PDI) as its \u201cGovernment Leader of the Year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was honored to attend the Pennsylvania Defense Institute\u2019s annual conference, where I was presented with the \u2018Robert C. Keaton Government Leader of the Year\u2019 award. The award is presented to lawmakers who focus on policies that have a direct impact on the legal defense of Pennsylvania residents. I am incredibly humbled by this recognition and will continue to work diligently to uphold the values this award represents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mackenzie received the award earlier this month during PDI\u2019s annual conference at the Omni Bedford Springs Resort in Bedford County.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nAndy Briggs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A photo of Mackenzie and PDI\u2019s incoming president, Daniel Twilla, is attached. Photo credit: Della Watters of WattersWorks. HARRISBURG\u00a0\u2013 Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-Lehigh) has been named by the Pennsylvania Defense &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=132942\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mackenzie Named Government Leader of the Year by Pennsylvania Defense Institute<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132943,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Mackenzie-Award.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132942"}],"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=132942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/132943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}