Meet Josh
Josh grew up recognizing the power of public service and the importance of who gets elected. The leaders at the table and the values they hold determine who gets ahead and who gets left behind. They determine whether government is about opportunity or oppression, whether it expands freedoms or takes them away, and whether government works for working people or only the wealthy, well-connected, special interests. They can choose to unite us around a vision for something or manufacture fear of something.
Josh was inspired to run for office by the experience of his father and sister, a gay man and trans woman, and a belief that public service is about inspiring and unifying people around a concrete and positive vision that includes everyone. In 2019, at the age of 25, he was elected to serve on Allentown City Council. Josh proudly made Allentown one of the few communities in the Commonwealth to offer its employees six weeks of paid family leave, so mothers and fathers didn’t have to choose between parenthood and providing for their family.
When Allentown’s police cars and firetrucks weren’t being repaired fast enough because an out of state corporation running the city garage was abusing union workers and putting profits over public safety, Josh brought the garage back under city control and terminated the contract with the company to save taxpayer dollars and protect our residents.
In 2022, Josh was elected as one of the youngest members of the Pennsylvania State House where he voted to triple the child and dependent care tax credit, delivered the largest tax break for Pennsylvania seniors in two decades by expanding the Property Tax and Rent Rebate, and voted for the two largest-ever state increases in public education funding. Josh has been a champion in Harrisburg for housing affordability, union rights, public safety and economic development.
Josh shares the frustration of many that the government has been ineffective, unresponsive and broken. He watched elected officials scapegoat and target people like his father and sister to divide and conquer and distract from their actual agenda: enriching the wealthy, cutting taxes for Wall Street, and empowering billionaires to write policy that would benefit special interests and their industries while working families suffered and paid for it all.
Josh recognizes that too many politicians are eager to advance their careers by pitting Americans and Pennsylvanians against one another, creating a lie, a false competition and zero-sum game, convincing people that someone else’s progress has come at their expense.
Cowardly politicians constantly create “others” in their lust for power and their service to billionaires and special interests, turning us against each other and taking us from neighbors to enemies, all of it to distract from the fact that they have no plan for us. They have no real agenda to reduce costs, keep us safe and improve our lives.
Josh’s public service has been built on rejecting that divisive playbook and focusing on delivering for working families and enduring the belief that government can be a force for good in our community and people’s lives.
Josh lives in Allentown with his wife, Sara.
Josh was inspired to run for office by the experience of his father and sister, a gay man and trans woman, and a belief that public service is about inspiring and unifying people around a concrete and positive vision that includes everyone. In 2019, at the age of 25, he was elected to serve on Allentown City Council. Josh proudly made Allentown one of the few communities in the Commonwealth to offer its employees six weeks of paid family leave, so mothers and fathers didn’t have to choose between parenthood and providing for their family.
When Allentown’s police cars and firetrucks weren’t being repaired fast enough because an out of state corporation running the city garage was abusing union workers and putting profits over public safety, Josh brought the garage back under city control and terminated the contract with the company to save taxpayer dollars and protect our residents.
In 2022, Josh was elected as one of the youngest members of the Pennsylvania State House where he voted to triple the child and dependent care tax credit, delivered the largest tax break for Pennsylvania seniors in two decades by expanding the Property Tax and Rent Rebate, and voted for the two largest-ever state increases in public education funding. Josh has been a champion in Harrisburg for housing affordability, union rights, public safety and economic development.
Josh shares the frustration of many that the government has been ineffective, unresponsive and broken. He watched elected officials scapegoat and target people like his father and sister to divide and conquer and distract from their actual agenda: enriching the wealthy, cutting taxes for Wall Street, and empowering billionaires to write policy that would benefit special interests and their industries while working families suffered and paid for it all.
Josh recognizes that too many politicians are eager to advance their careers by pitting Americans and Pennsylvanians against one another, creating a lie, a false competition and zero-sum game, convincing people that someone else’s progress has come at their expense.
Cowardly politicians constantly create “others” in their lust for power and their service to billionaires and special interests, turning us against each other and taking us from neighbors to enemies, all of it to distract from the fact that they have no plan for us. They have no real agenda to reduce costs, keep us safe and improve our lives.
Josh’s public service has been built on rejecting that divisive playbook and focusing on delivering for working families and enduring the belief that government can be a force for good in our community and people’s lives.
Josh lives in Allentown with his wife, Sara.
