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2025 Election Preview: Allentown Mayoral Race Candidate Matt Tuerk (D)
Primary: defeated Ed Zucal, 80.6% – 19.4%Experience: Mayor, City of Allentown (2022-present); Principal, Equitable Development LLC (2020-21); Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation (2013-20); Allentown Economic Development Corporation (2008-13); Controller, Panamerican Management (2004-08).
Priorities.
- Vision and Energy. Empower the people of Allentown and engage with regional partners to deliver equitable economic growth through energized leadership.
- Trust the People. Our city faces unique challenges, and the solutions to those problems should come from people who understand them best: Allentonians.
- Better Together. Work with our partners across the region and resist the temptation to go it alone.
- Allentown For All. Give love to every neighborhood and every community in our City.
- Open For Business. Improve organizational efficiency
Education: B.S., College of Charleston ’02; MBA, University of South Carolina ’04
https://www.politicspa.com/2025-election-preview-allentown-mayoral-race/144686/