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September 16, 2026

Centre County League of Women Voters to Host 2026 Candidates’ Night

Candidates, including John Zangari, “will have an opportunity to answer questions from Central Pennsylvania voters during the League of Women Voters of Centre County’s 2026 General Election Candidates’ Night…at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, in the State College Borough Council Chambers at 243 S. Allen St.”
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September 16, 2026
September 3, 2026

Zangari proposes state park for former Rockview prison land

“We all know in our gut what will likely happen, our land sold off in sweetheart deals to politically connected developers,” Zangari said. “My plan would preserve this rich farmland for our farmers to till, protect our Spring Creek watershed, and prevent data centers from ever getting a foothold on…
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September 3, 2026

Videos

This is a long video but an important one. On June 11th Granville Township hosted a special meeting to go over their data center ordinance. Kerry Benninghoff was called up by a constituent and made some statements. I want to put out there my thoughts on the ordinance as well as talk about what Kerry said because some of it, in my opinion, is incorrect. Some timecodes: 00:00-13:15 Comments on Granville ordinance 13:15-22:30 Kerry Benninghoff's votes against Data Center legislation + current efforts to pass a moratorium on data centers. 22:30-34:25 Kerry Benninghoff's donations over past elections from corperations and organizations that will benefit from data center development including 2 AI and computing companies. Information from the video that you should have: Dawn Keefer - chair of the Senate Local Gov committee: https://www.palegis.us/senate/members/bio/1748/sen-dawn-keefer Patty Kim Minority chair of the Senate Local Gov committee: https://www.palegis.us/senate/members/bio/1636/sen-patty-kim Joe Pittman - leader of the senate: https://www.palegis.us/senate/members/bio/1870/sen-pittman Kerry Benninghoff: https://www.palegis.us/house/members/bio/215/rep-kerry-benninghoff Judy Ward - PA senator for our area: https://www.palegis.us/senate/members/bio/1683/sen-judy-ward Senate Bill 1359 https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/2025/sb1359 Kerry Benninghoff Financials: 2026: https://www.transparencyusa.org/pa/candidate/kerry-benninghoff 2024: https://www.transparencyusa.org/pa/candidate/kerry-benninghoff?cycle=2024-election-cycle 2022: https://www.transparencyusa.org/pa/candidate/kerry-benninghoff?cycle=2022-election-cycle The computing companies that donated to Kerry in 2022: https://www.lumen.com/en-us/industries/data-center-operators.html https://www.unisys.com/solutions/artificial-intelligence/ EMF Study information I cited: https://ehsciences.org/data-centers-increase-electromagnetic-fields-emf-exposure/
Granville Township Data Center Ordinance + Kerry Benninghoff Comments
Data centers are a real issue right now and you need to know about it. Putting it plainly, we need to protect our rural communities. We need to enact ordnances to make it so these AI data centers need to abide by the same rules and laws expected by us. We can't run 100 generators in our yards 24/7 so why should they be able to? If elected I'm committing to passing data center legislation on a state level to ensure if you're building a data center in PA- it won't hurt local communities and pass expenses onto consumers. As for what we can do now? We need to gather together and demand more from our local representatives to get ordnances and legislation on the books. Cut the light pollution, reduce power consumption, cut noise levels, and protect our rural landscape.
Data Centers in PA
Updates about the campaign! Upcoming events: Protest on the square- Lewistown - 5/2 11am-1pm CPAU Affordability event - https://www.mobilize.us/paunited/event/923650/ Craft night at Steelworkers Union Hall - 5/5/20206 from 6:00-8:00pm Coffee Chat at Wayne Twp building - 5/9/2026 from 10:00am-12:00
Campaign Update - May 1st
The PA Turnpike commission is about to start sending you texts to get you to pay for your unpaid tolls... Doesn't that sound familiar? Isn't every government agency warning not to trust spam texts? Genuinely blows my mind that we have to spend $300,000 to figure out that this is a horrible idea.
PA Turnpike To Start Sending Texts for Unpaid Tolls
Primecore, a developer in State College PA is proposing tearing down a affordable 55+ community downtown and replacing it with student housing. You need to know about this. Sources: https://www.centredaily.com/news/local/community/state-college/article315487719.html http://centredaily.com/news/local/community/state-college/article314220489.html https://www.centredaily.com/news/local/community/state-college/article313734796.html https://www.psucollegian.com/archives/addison-building-opens-to-elderly-disabled-tenants/article_ab5985c6-1069-5577-a32c-1053181d8c5d.html https://www.linkedin.com/company/primecore/about/ https://primecoreproperties.com/ https://www.statecollege.com/articles/local-news/developer-requests-zoning-change-for-addison-court-property-pledges-to-help-current-residents-relocate/
State College Developer Kicking Out Seniors for Students
Out of nowhere, after years of telling people that any text coming from the PA Turnpike commission, Penn Dot, or EZPASS was a scam - the Turnpike Commission wants to send text messages about your tolls. And they are spending $300,000 to trial it. This is the worst decision I have ever heard. Scam texts are on the rise and the turnpike is basically saying "LEMME IN ON THAT MONEY!" I'm calling on congressional leaders to tell the turnpike commission to stop this absolute nonsense. That includes Kerry Benninghoff- the Republican chair of the transportation committee. If not him, then the chair Ed Neilson. If not them, then SOMEONE in this government needs to do SOMETHING.
PA Turnpike Commission To Start Sending Text Messages!?!?
Donald Trump has indicated the federal government shouldn't have anything to do with childcare. In this video I try and breakdown the statements, how this will impact Pennsylvania, and convey that I'm someone who will fight to make childcare affordable in Pennsylvania.
"We can't take care of daycare!" Trump claims the federal government can't help with daycare anymore
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