{"id":147731,"date":"2026-02-19T22:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=147731"},"modified":"2026-02-19T22:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:44:10","slug":"ce-ce-gerlach-bilingual-outreach-team-kicks-off-petition-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=147731","title":{"rendered":"CE-CE GERLACH BILINGUAL OUTREACH TEAM KICKS OFF PETITION SEASON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ALLENTOWN, PA &#8211; February 21, 2026<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<strong>Ce-Ce Gerlach<\/strong>, candidate for\u00a0<strong>Pennsylvania House of Representatives in the 22nd District<\/strong>, will launch petition season with a\u00a0<strong>\u201cLatino Launch\u201d press conference<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>at 9:30 a.m.\u00a0<\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>Saturday, February 21st<\/strong>\u00a0at\u00a0<strong>Bucky Boyle Park, 10 Pump Pl, Allentown<\/strong>. The event will highlight the campaign\u2019s\u00a0<strong>priorities\u00a0<\/strong>and introduce the campaign\u2019s\u00a0<strong>bilingual outreach team<\/strong>, focused on ensuring voters across the district can access campaign information and participate fully in the democratic process.<\/p>\n<p>The bilingual outreach team will include\u00a0<strong>Allentown City Councilmember Natalie Santos<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Deputy Campaign Manager John Santana, community advocates Enid Santiago and Yamelisa Jimenez Taveras<\/strong>, who will help lead outreach efforts in both English and Spanish across the district.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately following the press conference, volunteers and supporters will fan out across the community for a\u00a0<strong>petition-signature canvass<\/strong>\u00a0to help place Gerlach on the ballot, continuing until\u00a0<strong>1:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPetition season is where the work begins \u2013 meeting neighbors where they are, listening, and building a campaign that reflects our entire community,\u201d said\u00a0<strong>Ce-Ce Gerlach<\/strong>. \u201cOur district deserves representation that communicates clearly, shows up consistently, and includes everyone \u2013 English and Spanish speakers alike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following brief remarks and introductions at\u00a0<strong>9:30 a.m.<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Gerlach and members of the bilingual outreach team will be available for interviews<\/strong>. Visuals will include campaign supporters, volunteer canvass launch, petition and campaign materials.<\/p>\n<p>For more information please contact Ben Stemrich at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Ben.Stemrich@BenStemMedia.com\">Ben.Stemrich@BenStemMedia.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nBen Stemrich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, PA &#8211; February 21, 2026\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Ce-Ce Gerlach, candidate for\u00a0Pennsylvania House of Representatives in the 22nd District, will launch petition season with a\u00a0\u201cLatino Launch\u201d press conference\u00a0at 9:30 a.m.\u00a0on\u00a0Saturday, February 21st\u00a0at\u00a0Bucky Boyle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=147731\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CE-CE GERLACH BILINGUAL OUTREACH TEAM KICKS OFF PETITION SEASON<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147732,"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-147731","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\/02\/ce-ce-26.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147731"}],"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=147731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/147732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}