{"id":147151,"date":"2026-01-15T22:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=147151"},"modified":"2026-01-15T22:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:04:18","slug":"lehigh-young-republicans-chapter-formed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=147151","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Young Republicans Chapter Formed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Allentown, PA\u00a0\u2014 Today, young Republicans in Lehigh County announced the official formation of the\u00a0Lehigh County Young Republican Chapter, marking a major step forward in engaging and mobilizing young conservatives across the Lehigh Valley. The chapter will be chaired by Andres Weller of Coopersburg, who currently serves as campaign manager for Congressman Ryan Mackenzie.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAs the Lehigh Valley grows in importance on the state and national level, this new chapter will provide young Republicans the opportunity to lead,\u201d\u00a0said Weller. \u201cYoung conservatives now have a home\u2014a place to engage with like-minded individuals, support Republican candidates at every level, and advance our values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Lehigh County Republican Chairman\u00a0Joe Vichot\u00a0welcomed the chapter\u2019s formation, stating, \u201cThis has been a long time coming. Lehigh County needed a group like this to energize young voters, develop the next generation of leaders, and turn out the vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Lehigh County Young Republicans\u2019 vice chair is Nolan Russo. The organization is open to all registered Republicans in Lehigh and Northampton Counties between the ages of 18-40. Those interested in joining should send an email to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Lehighyr@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lehighyr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Background:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Lehigh County Young Republicans aim to recruit, educate, and mobilize young conservatives throughout the county by supporting Republican candidates, promoting conservative principles, and strengthening grassroots organizing efforts.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nArnaud Armstrong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allentown, PA\u00a0\u2014 Today, young Republicans in Lehigh County announced the official formation of the\u00a0Lehigh County Young Republican Chapter, marking a major step forward in engaging and mobilizing young conservatives across &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=147151\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lehigh Young Republicans Chapter Formed<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147152,"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-147151","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\/2026\/01\/young-republican.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147151"}],"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=147151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/147152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}