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Rochelle Culbreath
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Rochelle Culbreath (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to represent District 54. She lost in the Democratic primary on May 17, 2022.
Culbreath completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Rochelle Culbreath was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania. She earned a bachelor's degree from Temple University in 1991. She earned a degree from Main Line Paralegal Institute in 1992. Culbreath's career experience includes working as a manager of legislative affairs with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA).[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Pennsylvania House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 54
Greg Scott defeated Allen Anderson in the general election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 54 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Greg Scott (D) | 71.7 | 14,379 |
| Allen Anderson (R) | 28.3 | 5,685 | ||
| Total votes: 20,064 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 54
Greg Scott defeated Rochelle Culbreath in the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 54 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Greg Scott | 53.9 | 3,074 |
 | Rochelle Culbreath | 46.1 | 2,629 | |
| Total votes: 5,703 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 54
Allen Anderson advanced from the Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 54 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Allen Anderson | 100.0 | 2,289 | |
| Total votes: 2,289 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Daniel Wissert (R)
Campaign finance
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Rochelle Culbreath is a 4th generation Norristonian. She grew up, graduated from Norristown High School, and raised her daughter in the same neighborhood her parents, grandparents and great grandparents called home. From a young age, Rochelle was called to be a vocal and tireless advocate for her community. In 2000, she was the first African American woman elected President of Norristown Borough Council, serving in that role till 2007. She has also devoted her time and energy to volunteer leadership roles with over twenty non-profits serving the residents of Montgomery County. Rochelle fought to keep Montgomery Hospital open in Norristown and worked with The Food Trust to improve access to fresh healthy food in the Borough. She currently works as Manager of Legislative Affairs (State) for SEPTA, the nation's 6th largest public transportation agency. Over the last 16 years in this role, she has shepherded hundreds of bills through the PA legislature annually, worked on budget reconciliations, amendments, and legislative compromises bringing together Republicans and Democrats to pass legislation. She facilitates constituent services for all state legislators in southeastern PA and created the Montgomery county vulnerable population task force, consisting of 50 stakeholders that work in Montco supporting homeless and vulnerable populations.
- To protect our local schools against predatory for-profit charter school expansion and the billionaires that back it, charter schools must be held to the same accountability standards as public schools, not be allowed to overcharge for special education services they don’t provide, pay teachers the same wages as public schools & allow them the protection of unions. I am the only candidate in this race opposed to charter school expansion and free from conflicts of interest. Charters take over $12.2 million taxpayer dollars from District 54 schools annually - allowing private corporations to gut our public schools to benefit private corporate bottom lines. My Comprehensive Education Platform outlines a multi-issue approach.
- I have a roadmap to fully fund & equip career technical education to put skilled workers into jobs. We need dedicated funding, private/public partnerships to fund the technology & a change to the way teachers are certified to create a shortened pathway to certification. Students who qualify for free school lunch should have their tools provided at no cost. I will bring development dollars back to our district to fix roads, build and maintain parks, support local manufacturing and small business growth. Working parents need full day kindergarten, expansion of quality Pre-K programs like Headstart, Pre-K counts and Keystone stars and shift worker daycare. Early education is pro family, pro worker and pro business.
- It's time to send an infrastructure specialist to Harrisburg. Our roads need to be paved not patched. We deserve state of the art roadwork. In the next 5 years the population of Conshohocken will increase by over 4000 people necessitating investment to grow the infrastructure to support families and businesses. The sale of public utilities and the loss of the long-term income is not a solution to long term investment in infrastructure needs. I opposed the sale of utilities to for-profit corporations that put the needs of their shareholders above residents. These same businesses have subjected Pennsylvania residents to some of the highest rate increases in the region.
-Job creation and economic security
-Infrastructure investment
-Affordable housing and sustainability
-Community services - central to which is building new & upgrading community centers and creating a central HUB for services
-Expanding constituent services
-Women's rights - particularly defending a woman's autonomy of her own body
-Healthcare reform through a Medicaid for All type system and expanded real investment in mental health care and drug addiction
-I support automatic voter registration, early voting expansion, maintenance of Vote By Mail and oppose discriminatory voter ID laws. I support the repeal of voter ID legislation and any attempt to disenfranchise voters through suppression efforts.
-Criminal Justice Reforms including legislation to expand the model technical training program I created to restructure workforce development and job placement in one Pennsylvania prison to successfully reintegrate former prisoners into society. I support and will co-sponsor a bill to allow non-violent seniors serving life sentences to age out and live the remainder of their time with family at home. I support bail reform and will oppose the continued criminalization of poverty that negatively impacts our communities.
-A future facing environmental policy prioritizes support for the emerging green economy and the need to produce the skilled workforce to fill those jobs.
In my spare time, I have served on over 20 nonprofit boards. Working with these organizations gave me the chance to make a difference and learn about issues that I would not otherwise have the opportunity to influence. The Boards of Montco Works, Your Way Home, the Agape Improvement Development Corp, the Norristown Homeowners Association, the Macedonia Community Development Corporation, the Norristown Preservation Society, the Norristown Salvation Army Advisory Board, Montgomery County 2040 Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee, the Montgomery County Homes for All Advisory Committee, and as Chairwoman of Weed & Seed each touched my heart and shaped the platform I will pursue when elected to be the next State Representative.
Honesty, integrity and experience. I have run a campaign on these values and will legislate with them.
A strong work ethic and a moral center based on honesty, integrity and accountability. I have always worked to fulfill these values and to hold myself and those around me to the highest standards of accountability.
To be responsive to the voters, fiscally accountable and to deliver assistance to the members of the district you are elected to represent.
A legacy of service.
I have never forgotten what my first experience as an elected official meant to me - the opportunity to give back and serve. For two terms, I had the opportunity together with my fellow Council Members to begin the process of turning Montgomery County Blue, protecting Norristown from bankruptcy, creating new sources of revenue that continue to this day, and building our community infrastructure. Investing in our community is my passion and I pledge to bring the much needed funds back to our community to deliver what we deserve.
I joined SEPTA to take the lessons I learned serving in Norristown to all of southeastern PA. For the last 16 years, I have worked on every single piece of legislation related to public transportation considered in the PA House and Senate. I sit at the table with Republicans and Democrats to craft, revise, reconcile hundreds of bills per year. I created the most popular constituent service program delivered by our legislators - the Seniors Ride Free Program, serving 200,000 residents annually. I also have a direct role in creating innovative sustainable environmental policy - wind farms, solar projects, green buildings, investing in regenerative energy, utilizing recycled rainwater to wash SEPTA buses, and adopting electric vehicles. SEPTA is the 6th largest transportation agency in the nation serving 4 million people in 5 counties annually. This role has given me the opportunity to address pressing social issues. I am on the frontlines of addressing the homeless crisis, implementing SCOPE (Safety Cleanliness Ownership Partnership Engagement), a nationally recognized program to address the homeless population in our system and ensuring nondiscrimination, equal access and equality policies at SEPTA.
I joined SEPTA to take the lessons I learned serving in Norristown to all of southeastern PA. For the last 16 years, I have worked on every single piece of legislation related to public transportation considered in the PA House and Senate. I sit at the table with Republicans and Democrats to craft, revise, reconcile hundreds of bills per year. I created the most popular constituent service program delivered by our legislators - the Seniors Ride Free Program, serving 200,000 residents annually. I also have a direct role in creating innovative sustainable environmental policy - wind farms, solar projects, green buildings, investing in regenerative energy, utilizing recycled rainwater to wash SEPTA buses, and adopting electric vehicles. SEPTA is the 6th largest transportation agency in the nation serving 4 million people in 5 counties annually. This role has given me the opportunity to address pressing social issues. I am on the frontlines of addressing the homeless crisis, implementing SCOPE (Safety Cleanliness Ownership Partnership Engagement), a nationally recognized program to address the homeless population in our system and ensuring nondiscrimination, equal access and equality policies at SEPTA.
A partnership where we can work together, disagree when necessary, but compromise to serve the interests of our fellow Pennsylvanians.
Equity and climate change. We must work toward equity in education, access to jobs, business opportunities, and access to the polls. Climate change will apply hard realities on our policy making in all these areas, creating a new economy and difficult challenges with the remnants of the fossil fuel economy and our dependence on jobs in this industry, homes reliant on fossil fuel sources for heating, cooking, and the challenges of extreme weather events that cause natural disasters impacting our residents.
We do not have a unicameral legislature in Pennsylvania.
It is essential. As an experienced legislative analyst and policy maker, I have decades working at the state, county and local level on transportation, infrastructure, housing, homelessness, food insecurity and access to healthcare. I am ready before day 1 to serve my constituents in a manner only an experienced incumbent would have. This places our newly created freshman seat in the PA House in a differential position if we elect someone with my background, knowledge of Harrisburg and existing relationships with legislators from both sides of aisle.
Absolutely. I have worked my entire adult life to have relationships with legislators and to advocate for my fellow citizens to do the same.
Independent commission - Fair Districts educated citizens across PA on the need for the the desirability of having independent, non partisan citizens create the new maps. Unfortunately despite an overwhelming number of cosponsors, the leadership did not allow the bills supported by Fair Districts a fair hearing. The will of Pennsylvania voters was thwarted. Despite obtaining over 100,000 signatures from citizens across Pennsylvania and more co-sponsors than other bills in the PA House & Senate, legislation promoted by Fair Districts was “gutted or ignored.” These attempts to silence the voters of PA must not continue. I pledge to support Fair Districts and stand in solidarity with the citizens who advocated to develop a process free from partisan influence. Voters should choose their legislators, not the other way around.
Agriculture
Transportation
Speaker K. Leroy Irvis
I am only interested in running to be a State Representative in PA.
I met a homeless couple by accident. I lost my phone and the gentleman who found it called me from Plymouth Meeting to pick it up. He called again a few days later after googling my name and finding that I sat on the Board of Your Way Home, a homeless advocacy organization. He then disclosed that he and his wife, a US Navy veteran had recently lost their home. I quickly sprang into action, contacting Your Way Home, landlords and advocates to arrange for emergency housing placement and long terms solutions to help this family. Had I never lost my phone, this man and his wife would never have reached out. I am grateful for the opportunity to utilize my knowledge, connections and compassion to help a family in need.
Only in limited circumstances. The executive must retain the ability to act quickly in response to emergencies. However, the executive should be prevented from excesses and unconstitutional overreach.
I have 16 years experience working with both Democrats and Republicans to deliver legislation on public transportation to fruition in Harrisburg. I work on an average of 200 legislative initiatives per year. I also administer the largest constituent service program offered by Pennsylvania Legislative offices, the Seniors Ride Free program. This service assists over 200,000 seniors across Pennsylvania each year. My experience sitting at the table to work on legislative compromises over nearly 2 decades gives me not only the direct experience necessary for policy making, but trust with legislators of both parties to work together.
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See also
2022 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 14, 2022
Current members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Leadership
Speaker of the House:Joanna McClinton
Majority Leader:Kerry Benninghoff
Minority Leader:Jesse Topper
Representatives
District 1
Patrick Harkins (D)
District 2
Robert Merski (D)
District 3
Ryan Bizzarro (D)
District 4
Jake Banta (R)
District 5
Eric Weaknecht (R)
District 6
Bradley Roae (R)
District 7
Parke Wentling (R)
District 8
Aaron Bernstine (R)
District 9
Marla Brown (R)
District 10
Amen Brown (D)
District 11
Marci Mustello (R)
District 12
District 13
John Lawrence (R)
District 14
Roman Kozak (R)
District 15
Joshua Kail (R)
District 16
Robert Matzie (D)
District 17
Tim Bonner (R)
District 18
K.C. Tomlinson (R)
District 19
Aerion Abney (D)
District 20
Emily Kinkead (D)
District 21
Lindsay Powell (D)
District 22
Joshua Siegel (D)
District 23
Dan Frankel (D)
District 24
La'Tasha Mayes (D)
District 25
Brandon Markosek (D)
District 26
Paul Friel (D)
District 27
Daniel Deasy (D)
District 28
Jeremy Shaffer (R)
District 29
Tim Brennan (D)
District 30
Arvind Venkat (D)
District 31
Perry Warren (D)
District 32
Joe McAndrew (D)
District 33
Mandy Steele (D)
District 34
District 35
Dan Goughnour (D)
District 36
Jessica Benham (D)
District 37
Mindy Fee (R)
District 38
John Inglis (D)
District 39
Andrew Kuzma (R)
District 40
Natalie Mihalek (R)
District 41
Brett Miller (R)
District 42
Dan Miller (D)
District 43
Keith Greiner (R)
District 44
Valerie Gaydos (R)
District 45
Anita Kulik (D)
District 46
Jason Ortitay (R)
District 47
Joe D'Orsie (R)
District 48
Timothy O'Neal (R)
District 49
District 50
Bud Cook (R)
District 51
District 52
Ryan Warner (R)
District 53
Steven Malagari (D)
District 54
Greg Scott (D)
District 55
Jill Cooper (R)
District 56
Brian Rasel (R)
District 57
Eric Nelson (R)
District 58
Eric Davanzo (R)
District 59
Leslie Rossi (R)
District 60
Abby Major (R)
District 61
Liz Hanbidge (D)
District 62
James Struzzi (R)
District 63
Josh Bashline (R)
District 64
R. James (R)
District 65
Kathy Rapp (R)
District 66
Brian Smith (R)
District 67
Martin Causer (R)
District 68
Clint Owlett (R)
District 69
Carl Metzgar (R)
District 70
Matthew Bradford (D)
District 71
Jim Rigby (R)
District 72
Frank Burns (D)
District 73
Dallas Kephart (R)
District 74
Dan Williams (D)
District 75
Mike Armanini (R)
District 76
District 77
Scott Conklin (D)
District 78
Jesse Topper (R)
District 79
Louis Schmitt (R)
District 80
Scott Barger (R)
District 81
Richard Irvin (R)
District 82
Paul Takac (D)
District 83
Jamie Flick (R)
District 84
Joe Hamm (R)
District 85
David Rowe (R)
District 86
Perry Stambaugh (R)
District 87
Thomas Kutz (R)
District 88
Sheryl Delozier (R)
District 89
Rob Kauffman (R)
District 90
Chad Reichard (R)
District 91
Dan Moul (R)
District 92
Marc Anderson (R)
District 93
Mike Jones (R)
District 94
Wendy Fink (R)
District 95
Carol Hill-Evans (D)
District 96
Nikki Rivera (D)
District 97
Steven Mentzer (R)
District 98
Tom Jones (R)
District 99
David Zimmerman (R)
District 100
Bryan Cutler (R)
District 101
John Schlegel (R)
District 102
Russell Diamond (R)
District 103
Nate Davidson (D)
District 104
Dave Madsen (D)
District 105
Justin Fleming (D)
District 106
Thomas Mehaffie (R)
District 107
Joanne Stehr (R)
District 108
Michael Stender (R)
District 109
Robert Leadbeter (R)
District 110
Tina Pickett (R)
District 111
Jonathan Fritz (R)
District 112
Kyle Mullins (D)
District 113
Kyle Donahue (D)
District 114
District 115
Maureen Madden (D)
District 116
Dane Watro (R)
District 117
Jamie Walsh (R)
District 118
James Haddock (D)
District 119
Alec Ryncavage (R)
District 120
Brenda Pugh (R)
District 121
Eddie Pashinski (D)
District 122
Doyle Heffley (R)
District 123
Tim Twardzik (R)
District 124
Jamie Barton (R)
District 125
Joe Kerwin (R)
District 126
Jacklyn Rusnock (D)
District 127
Manuel Guzman (D)
District 128
Mark Gillen (R)
District 129
District 130
David Maloney (R)
District 131
Milou Mackenzie (R)
District 132
District 133
Jeanne McNeill (D)
District 134
Peter Schweyer (D)
District 135
Steve Samuelson (D)
District 136
Robert Freeman (D)
District 137
Joe Emrick (R)
District 138
Ann Flood (R)
District 139
Jeff Olsommer (R)
District 140
Jim Prokopiak (D)
District 141
Tina Davis (D)
District 142
Joseph Hogan (R)
District 143
Shelby Labs (R)
District 144
Brian Munroe (D)
District 145
Craig Staats (R)
District 146
Joseph Ciresi (D)
District 147
Donna Scheuren (R)
District 148
Mary Daley (D)
District 149
Tim Briggs (D)
District 150
Joseph Webster (D)
District 151
Melissa Cerrato (D)
District 152
Nancy Guenst (D)
District 153
Ben Sanchez (D)
District 154
Napoleon Nelson (D)
District 155
District 156
District 157
District 158
Christina Sappey (D)
District 159
Carol Kazeem (D)
District 160
Craig Williams (R)
District 161
Leanne Krueger (D)
District 162
David Delloso (D)
District 163
Heather Boyd (D)
District 164
Gina Curry (D)
District 165
Jennifer O'Mara (D)
District 166
Gregory Vitali (D)
District 167
Kristine Howard (D)
District 168
Lisa Borowski (D)
District 169
Kate Klunk (R)
District 170
Martina White (R)
District 171
District 172
Sean Dougherty (D)
District 173
District 174
Ed Neilson (D)
District 175
Mary Isaacson (D)
District 176
Jack Rader (R)
District 177
District 178
Kristin Marcell (R)
District 179
Jason Dawkins (D)
District 180
Jose Giral (D)
District 181
Malcolm Kenyatta (D)
District 182
Benjamin Waxman (D)
District 183
Zachary Mako (R)
District 184
District 185
Regina Young (D)
District 186
Jordan Harris (D)
District 187
Gary Day (R)
District 188
Rick Krajewski (D)
District 189
Tarah Probst (D)
District 190
Roni Green (D)
District 191
Joanna McClinton (D)
District 192
Morgan Cephas (D)
District 193
Torren Ecker (R)
District 194
Tarik Khan (D)
District 195
Keith Harris (D)
District 196
Seth Grove (R)
District 197
Danilo Burgos (D)
District 198
Darisha Parker (D)
District 199
Barbara Gleim (R)
District 200
Christopher Rabb (D)
District 201
Andre Carroll (D)
District 202
Jared Solomon (D)
District 203
Anthony Bellmon (D)
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