{"id":141523,"date":"2025-04-07T20:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T00:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=141523"},"modified":"2025-04-07T20:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T00:17:09","slug":"lamont-mcclure-raises-more-than-140k-in-5-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=141523","title":{"rendered":"Lamont McClure Raises More Than $140k in 5 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Overwhelming majority from small-dollar donors show grassroots enthusiasm<\/em><\/p>\n<p>BETHLEHEM, PA. \u2014 Democratic candidate Lamont McClure announced he\u2019s raised more than $140,000 in his campaign against Republican Ryan Mackenize in just five weeks after announcing his candidacy. More than 95 percent of the contributions came from small-dollar donors giving less than $250.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a grassroots campaign powered by workers across the Lehigh Valley and Carbon County. They\u2019ve had enough of the chaos in Washington and are ready for Congress to put a check on the president\u201d McClure said. \u201cRyan Mackenzie cares more about protecting Donald Trump than protecting Pennsylvania families. We\u2019re building a coalition to beat Mackenzie and end the chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lamont McClure began his career fighting for workers sickened by asbestos. As county executive, he worked to support 1,600 small businesses through the pandemic and cut property taxes by almost 10 percent.<\/p>\n<p>McClure is the only Democrat running in Pennsylvania&#8217;s 7th Congressional District and has announced endorsements from more than 50 unions and local officials:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pennsylvania Professional Firefighters Association<\/li>\n<li>Philadelphia Building Trades:\n<ul>\n<li>Boilermakers Local 13<\/li>\n<li>Bricklayers and Allied Craft Workers Local 1<\/li>\n<li>Cement Masons &amp; Plasterers Union Local 592<\/li>\n<li>Elevator Constructors Local 5<\/li>\n<li>Insulators &amp; Allied Workers Local 89<\/li>\n<li>Int\u2019l Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 8<\/li>\n<li>Int\u2019l Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 269<\/li>\n<li>Int\u2019l Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 654<\/li>\n<li>Int\u2019l Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98<\/li>\n<li>Int\u2019l Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 North<\/li>\n<li>Int\u2019l Union of Operating Engineers Local 542<\/li>\n<li>Int\u2019l Union of Painters &amp; Allied Trades District Council 21<\/li>\n<li>Int\u2019l Union of Operating Engineers Local 835<\/li>\n<li>Iron Workers Local 401<\/li>\n<li>Iron Workers Local 451<\/li>\n<li>Iron Works District Council<\/li>\n<li>Laborers District Council<\/li>\n<li>Laborers Local 332<\/li>\n<li>Laborers Local 413<\/li>\n<li>Laborers Local 57<\/li>\n<li>Plumbers Local 690<\/li>\n<li>Reinforced Iron Workers Riggers &amp; Machinery Movers Local Union 405<\/li>\n<li>Roofers &amp; Waterproofers Local 30<\/li>\n<li>Service Employees Int\u2019l Union 32B<\/li>\n<li>Sheet Metal Workers Local 19<\/li>\n<li>Sprinklerfitters Local 692<\/li>\n<li>Steamfitters Local 420<\/li>\n<li>Teamsters Local 107<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>James Irwin, Lehigh Valley Labor Leader<\/li>\n<li>Kelly Keegan, Northampton County Commissioner<\/li>\n<li>Robert Donchez, Former Mayor of Bethlehem<\/li>\n<li>Rocky Ahner, Carbon County Commissioner<\/li>\n<li>Sal Panto Jr., Mayor of Easton<\/li>\n<li>Susan Lawless, Hanover Twp. Board of Supervisors Chairwoman<\/li>\n<li>Frank Pintabone, Easton City Councilman<\/li>\n<li>Glenn Reibman, Former Northampton County Executive<\/li>\n<li>Ken Brown, Easton City Councilman<\/li>\n<li>Judy Haldeman, Northampton Borough Councilwoman<\/li>\n<li>Bill McGee, Building Trades Former Chair<\/li>\n<li>Ken Kraft, Northampton County Commissioner<\/li>\n<li>Jeff Warren, Northampton County Commissioner<\/li>\n<li>Priscilla DeLeon, Lower Saucon Township Council-member<\/li>\n<li>Victoria Opthof-Cardaro, Lower Saucon Township Council-member<\/li>\n<li>Lance Colondo, Mayor of Nazareth<\/li>\n<li>Allentown Professional Firefighters Local 302<\/li>\n<li>Int\u2019l Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 102<\/li>\n<li>Int\u2019l Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 375<\/li>\n<li>Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees Chapter 7<\/li>\n<li>Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees Chapter 9<\/li>\n<li>United Steelworkers Local 2599<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nMcClure for PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overwhelming majority from small-dollar donors show grassroots enthusiasm BETHLEHEM, PA. \u2014 Democratic candidate Lamont McClure announced he\u2019s raised more than $140,000 in his campaign against Republican Ryan Mackenize in just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=141523\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lamont McClure Raises More Than $140k in 5 weeks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140737,"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-141523","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\/2025\/03\/Lamont.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141523"}],"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=141523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}