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Robert Zeigler
Robert Zeigler (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to represent District 171. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Zeigler completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2022
See also: Pennsylvania House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 171
Incumbent Kerry Benninghoff defeated Robert Zeigler in the general election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 171 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Kerry Benninghoff (R) | 72.0 | 19,028 |
 | Robert Zeigler (D)  | 28.0 | 7,415 | |
| Total votes: 26,443 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 171
Robert Zeigler advanced from the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 171 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Robert Zeigler | 98.8 | 3,741 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.2 | 44 | ||
| Total votes: 3,785 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Paul Takac (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 171
Incumbent Kerry Benninghoff advanced from the Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 171 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kerry Benninghoff | 99.2 | 9,298 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.8 | 74 | ||
| Total votes: 9,372 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
To view Zeigler's endorsements in the 2022 election, please click here.
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Robert Zeigler completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Zeigler's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I have worked within food service, hospitality, and retail, accruing over 20 years of management and trainer experience. I moved to the State College area in 2004, earning my B.A. in Political Science in 2005 at Penn State. I finished my MBA/MPA with the University of Phoenix. I began working on my Doctorate in Management (ABD), when I met my wife and we began our family together in 2010.
I have been on the Millheim Borough Council since summer of 2018. While on council I have: 1) gotten high speed fiber broadband in the Penns Valley Region, 2) gotten Millheim Borough on its own solar array, 3) ensured borough employees are paid a living wage and have parental leave, and 4) cut taxes. I am involved with the East Penns Valley Community Business Association and am chair of the Penns Valley Code Agency. You could say I tend to keep busy. #UnionYes
- Pennsylvanians demand economic justice. This means supporting a living wage, because if you don’t support a living wage you support a dying wage. This means providing support for infrastructure, especially broadband. And this means supporting unions and other worker advocates. It also means ending Corporate Welfare helping working folks transition from one industry to another to keep economic growth strong and healthy. This also entails supporting the transition to green energy, a fast growing industry within Pennsylvania and an opportunity to train and help transition union jobs from the fossil fuel industry to the renewable energy sector.
- Rural communities are tired of being ignored by state legislators who are supposed to represent them. This means championing environmental issues to help preserve and conserve our streams, wetlands, and forests. This means holding corporations accountable for them abandoning work sites, poisoning water supplies, and damaging communities. This means pushing for healthcare reform to not only expand accessibility and affordability, but making it a reality for all Pennsylvanians. This means supporting emergency services, especially ones operated by volunteers. This means providing funds to smaller municipalities to ensure Pennsylvanians have clean water, drivable roads, safe bridges and pathways for pedestrian, vehicle, and bike traffic.
- We need more accountability, responsibility, and transparency within our government. We need to institute a reasonable gift ban to ensure that our politicians cannot be bought off by corporate interests with trips to the Bahamas or the Super Bowl. We need to prevent Corporate PAC money from making politicians bought and paid for by putting forth legislation that prevents the influence of corporations within elections and legislation. We need to expand and place stronger right-to-know capacity into the hands of the people in regards to legislative communications. And we need to make all expenses transparent for our elected officials for the public to see. Candidates should be transparent and work for the people, not corporate interests.
My dad is and has always been open-minded about finding solutions to problems, often thinking outside of the box for a solution and then implementing practical ideas to get those solutions in place. He has always been able to work to find a solution that works for the people while minimizing the costs. And for our family and as a dad, he has a good sense of humor, would be firm but fair. He was always willing to teach us what we wanted to learn if he could do it. He also worked hard, working full-time at the local level while also running a business out of his workshop. This does not include the yardwork, house projects, and other tasks he would do himself. Odds are, this is where I got my work ethic from.
2) Integrity
3) The ability to listen (not just hear)
4) The ability to be direct (without malice)
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
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