County
Montgomery
Occupation
Chief of Staff to State Representative Nancy Guenst
Education
American University - Master of Arts in Teaching, Secondary Education; American University - Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
Qualifications
I have five years of experience in the PA House, currently serving as a Chief of Staff. I have worked on legislation, secured funding, and helped residents access services. I am a Township Supervisor, giving me both state and local experience. I am also a former teacher.
Our district’s biggest challenges are affordability, healthcare access, and infrastructure. Rising housing costs, utility bills, and everyday expenses are stretching families thin. We must strengthen state assistance programs, support first-time homebuyers, ensure oversight of utility rate increases, and raise the minimum wage. Pennsylvania is also facing healthcare challenges, including provider shortages, rising costs, and maternal health deserts. We must expand access to reproductive care, including contraception, abortion, and fertility treatments, and codify these protections in state law. Public transit is also critical to our region. It supports our economy and working families, and we must fully fund it to ensure reliable service.
I support state-level reforms to expand access, strengthen security, and improve election administration. This includes same-day voter registration, expanded early voting and more secure ballot drop boxes. I am against any voter ID requirements that further restrict access. We should allow earlier pre-canvassing of mail-in ballots to ensure timely and accurate results. We must invest in modern, secure election infrastructure, including updated systems, strong cybersecurity protections and regular audits to maintain public trust. The state must also provide consistent funding for counties, voting equipment, and poll worker training. Finally, public education is critical to combat misinformation and ensure voters can participate confidently.
As a staffer in the PA House for five years, I have seen firsthand how flawed the budget process is and how delays directly impact working families. PA has a pattern of late budgets, passing 13 late budgets in the past 20 years, including some that dragged on for months, leaving schools, counties and nonprofits without critical funding. Partisanship is also a major contributing factor in budget delays. Overall, we need a more transparent and accountable process. I support earlier, good-faith negotiations, increased public reporting during budget talks, and stronger incentives for timely passage. We must move away from closed-door negotiations and ensure stakeholders and the public have a seat at the table so budgets reflect community needs.
Yes, the state should enact laws to address the impacts of data centers on water, energy, and land use. These facilities place significant demands on local resources, and without clear standards, communities bear the costs. The state has a role in setting baseline protections to ensure responsible development, grid stability, and environmental safeguards, including support for Gov. Shapiro’s GRID standards. At the same time, state policy should complement, not override, local control so zoning and land use decisions reflect community needs. A balanced approach ensures both statewide standards and local input.
County
Montgomery
Occupation
Retail Store Owner, Spot's - The Place for Paws
Education
Friends Central, Class of 1985; Franklin & Marshall College, Class of 1989; Temple University School of Law,, Class of 1992
Qualifications
I bring 10 years of local government experience as Mayor of Narberth and Borough Council member. I am a former trial attorney, longtime small business owner, and health care advocate, with a record of ethical leadership, collaboration, and informed decision-making.
Residents of District 148 face rising costs, including utility, healthcare, and everyday expenses, along with strained infrastructure and the need to sustain strong public services. I will work to ease affordability pressures by lowering healthcare costs through increased transparency, competition, and expanded preventive care. I'll support small businesses, which create jobs and enrich our communities, with policies to help them thrive. I will fight for reliable, long-term funding for SEPTA and invest in safer roads to reduce congestion, pollution and improve quality of life. I'll also support fair school funding statewide to strengthen our workforce and regional economy, while prioritizing responsive leadership that serves our community.
Free and fair elections are the foundation of our democracy. I support expanding access through early in-person voting, secure drop boxes, and ballot tracking so voters can participate easily and confidently. We must also maintain strong security with paper ballots and resources for counties to protect against cyber threats.
I oppose efforts that restrict access, including the SAVE Act, which I believe would disenfranchise millions of legitimate voters. I also strongly oppose placing ICE officers at polling sites, as it risks intimidating voters and discouraging participation.
Finally, we must support election workers, standardize procedures, and modernize equipment to ensure elections remain secure, accessible, and trusted.
Pennsylvania’s budget process is not working. Last year’s four-month delay caused real harm to schools, counties, nonprofits, and small businesses that depend on timely payments.
We need a more predictable, transparent, and accountable system. I support enforceable deadlines with consequences for missing them, along with earlier, good-faith bipartisan negotiations instead of last-minute deals.
Greater transparency is essential so residents can track progress and understand what’s at stake. I also support automatic continuing appropriations to keep essential services funded if a budget is late.
Passing an on-time budget is a basic responsibility, and Pennsylvanians deserve stability and results without disruption.
Yes, we should enact clear statewide standards to address data centers’ impacts on water, energy, and land use, without shifting costs to residents or small businesses. We should require public reporting of water use and closed-loop cooling to reduce waste, with incentives tied to sustainable sources. We can mandate energy transparency and create special utility rate classes so high-demand users pay the full cost of service, including their own utilities and any grid upgrades. At the same time, we can preserve municipal authority under the MPC, enabling local zoning on setbacks, noise, and impact studies. Done right, this ensures fairness, protects communities, and supports responsible growth.
County
Montgomery
Occupation
Researcher
Education
Bachelors, University of Pennsylvania
Qualifications
State Government Experience, Union Organizer, Peer Advocate
The most pressing issues are public schools, public transit, and reproductive freedom, each connected by a through-line: access. I will fight for access to opportunity, stability, and choice.
Our children’s educational outcomes should not be determined by their ZIP code. I will support a progressive income tax to fund a sustainable system.
Our transit systems are crumbling. I will co-sponsor the Transit for All PA package, committing $700 million to PA public transit through modest fees on car rentals, leases, and ride-shares.
Our reproductive freedoms are on shaky footing. I will fight for full constitutional codification for abortion and for new legislation to expand access to maternal and sexual healthcare.
Broader access to the ballot means automatic voter registration, expanded early voting, and robust protections against voter suppression efforts, especially those being driven by the current administration's attempts to destabilize confidence in our elections. Democracy doesn't survive on autopilot, but requires active participation and systems that make that participation as easy and secure as possible.
That ethos has been a central part of my campaign, underpinning my call for an open primary and my “Leo is Listening” tour, where I park a 1970s Chevy pickup at neighborhood gathering spots and invite anyone to walk up and talk. I am walking the walk, and I will continue to fight for an open and accessible democracy.
Pennsylvania has a chronic problem with late budgets, and the people who pay the price are not the legislators, but the school districts, social service providers, and municipalities left waiting. That has to change.
I will support freezing legislators’ pay until a budget is passed on time. If you can't perform the most basic function of your job, you shouldn't be collecting a paycheck while others suffer the consequences of your failure. Beyond that, I support greater transparency in the budget negotiation process and stronger structural incentives for timely passage. Budgeting is governing. Getting it done matters.
Yes, the state legislature must act. I have researched the environmental impact of AI with the United Nations and helped draft international AI legislation. I understand the technical reality of these systems firsthand. Energy-intensive data centers place enormous strain on our power grids and water supplies, and the communities bearing those costs are often the ones with the least political power to push back.
State-level regulation is appropriate and necessary to establish baseline environmental standards that cannot simply be avoided by shopping for the most permissive municipality. That said, this does not need to come at the cost of local authority. State standards and municipal ordinances under the MPC can and should work in concert.
County
Montgomery
Occupation
Attorney
Education
BA, University of Pennsylvania; Master of Urban Spatial Analytics (MUSA), University of Pennsylvania; JD, University of Pittsburgh
Qualifications
Environmental lawyer, civil rights advocate, and community organizer with over 15 years of senior legislative advocacy experience in Harrisburg and across Pennsylvania
Residents across the 148th House District are experiencing serious challenges with the sharply rising costs of living — especially for healthcare and utilities. Our communities understand the urgency of action on environmental protection and sustainably, to safeguard our communities from pollution and invest in an economy that works for all. Funding for SEPTA and safe roads and bridges is exceptionally important. Neighbors throughout Lower Merion, Whitemarsh, and Narberth are demanding the state take action to fully fund SEPTA in order to keep our regional economy and workforce moving. Voters are also calling on a new generation of leadership to stand up to every attack on our Democracy. Mobilizing together, we will meet this moment.
We have more work to do in order to ensure universal suffrage for all citizens who want to exercise their right to vote, in every election. Pennsylvania has made great progress in recent years, with online voter registration, and Act 77 providing for no-excuse needed absentee ballots. The legislature should continue to work in a nonpartisan manner to extend the deadlines for voter registration, so that citizens can register closer to Primary and General Elections, if not allow for day-of registration. We also need to ensure that counties are adequately funding their election operations, as well as the mandated storage requirements for paper ballots.
Approving a state budget is a central function of our legislature. State government cannot operate without allocated funding. It is unacceptable that budget standoffs are allowed to exist as they have in Pennsylvania. I would support reforms to force parties to come to the table and agree to a final deal quickly if it is past the June 30th deadline. A state law should be passed that immediately stops the payroll for legislators if they do not have a budget adopted by June 30th. I would support bills that ensure school districts aren’t burdened with expensive interest payments and that would require the House and Senate rules to gavel in session every day until they pass a budget — no leaving for weeks or months on end without a budget deal.
Our Pennsylvania Constitution guarantees the right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the environment. It states that public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including future generations. It is essential that the state legislature enact effective laws to regulate any development and operation of data centers in Pennsylvania. Our constitutional right to conserve and maintain these resources should bolster the powers of municipalities under the MPC to enact additional safeguards. Utility companies also need to be held accountable, ensuring that their costs to provide electricity and invest in infrastructure for billionaire-backed data center warehouses do not continue to be passed to consumers.
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