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SELINSGROVE – Less than six months after a campaign for state house last fall, Selinsgrove’s Dr. Jennifer Rager-Kay is again a candidate in the 85th district. Dr. Rager-Kay won the majority of conferee votes Thursday night, earning 17 out of 27 votes. A meeting room was full of both Union-Snyder Democrat committee members and the public.
Dr. Rager-Kay ran against then incumbent Fred Keller in the 2018 general election for the 85th District. She tells WKOK why she ran again, “I’m still incredibly humbled from the 2018 election, just knowing that so many people believed in me enough to come out and vote for me. So this opportunity was a no-brainer for me…that so many people believed in me…that this is an opportunity for me to continue to show them hope, and that’s why I went for it again.”
She says she’s sticking with her campaign slogan of putting people first, “Certain partisan politics have really divided our area, let alone our entire country. And I want to be able to showcase that a representative is supposed to represent everyone…not Democrats, not Republicans, but everyone.”
Dr. Rager-Kay says some of her most important platforms include healthcare, working on the opioid crisis, and education funding, “There needs to be alternate ways to fund education programs in the state of Pennsylvania other than just property taxes. I think there’s huge opportunities for revenue that the state is not taking advantage of right now, and I would love to be able to a part of that.”
Dr. Rager-Kay won against fellow democratic nominees Bonnie Hamilton, Adam Rosinski, and David Heayn. She will be running against republican candidate David Rowe in a special election on August 20th to fill the seat left by now U.S. Congressman Fred Keller (R-12th, Kreamer).
