Libertarian candidate running for 11th district House seat
Greg Deal, chairman and co-founder of the Butler County Libertarian Party, said he would fight for individual rights and less government regulation if he is elected to represent the 11th District in state House of Representatives in November.
Deal, 39, a military veteran and steelworker, is challenging incumbent Republican Marci Mustello in the Nov. 8 general election. There is no Democratic Party candidate in the race.
“The Libertarian Party and me are very pro individual rights,” Deal said. “I would be working hard for those individual rights and to have less government in people’s lives.”
A lifelong resident of the Butler area, Deal is an elected auditor in Jefferson Township and has been working at Cleveland-Cliffs for a little more than seven years.
He said he been a member of the Libertarian Party since 2013 and co-founded the county party after 2020 election. He also serves as secretary of the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania.
He is a husband, father of two children and a 2001 graduate of Butler Senior High School. He said he spent time at Slippery Rock University studying business management.
“I love this area, and I love the people in it,” Deal said.
Also among Deal’s main issues are lowering or removing restrictions and regulations on small businesses to help them compete against large conglomerates, according to the party website.
His other top issues include allowing parents to send their children to the school of their choice, pursuing legislation that would prohibit the Pennsylvania National Guard from being deployed to an active war zone, unless the federal government issues a declaration of war, and supporting the Second Amendment.
Any gun law is unconstitutional, he said.
“Common-sense gun control should be: Sight picture, steady breathing, and a good trigger squeeze,” he said on the party website.
The 11th District, which was slightly revised by redistricting this year, consists of Butler City, Chicora, East Butler and Saxonburg, and Buffalo, Butler, Clearfield, Clinton, Donegal, Jefferson, Oakland, Summit and Winfield townships.
