ADAMS TWP — A member of the Mars School Board will run for the 12th District state House seat for a second time.

Republican Gordon Marburger, 59, of Adams Township announced Monday that he again will seek the Republican nomination for the legislative seat occupied by state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, a Cranberry Township Republican.

The primary is April 26.

Marburger ran against Metcalfe in the 2014 GOP primary and lost.

“I felt we need a change and wanted to finish what I started,” Marburger said.

Metcalfe has served in Harrisburg since 1999. Marburger said Metcalfe is not representing the 12th District well.

“I just feel he’s dealing with issues that don’t really involve the 12th District,” Marburger said.

He said he felt that the state budget impasse — in which Gov. Tom Wolf and the GOP-controlled Legislature have failed to agree on a spending plan, which was due at the end of June — is a major problem, and one that legislators are not solving.

Marburger said he could do a good job of dealing with such situations, saying that he can work with both Republicans and Democrats.

“Unlike the incumbent, I will find solutions to problems without giving up my conservative principles,” Marburger said.

He said he believes that Harrisburg needs to be reformed, saying the Legislature needs to be smaller and that state government needs to be more efficient and less wasteful.

“They need to cut expenses,” Marburger said.

In 2014 Marburger failed to turn in a statement of financial interest with the state Ethics Commission. After his campaign was challenged by two residents, the state Supreme Court in May 2014 removed his name from the GOP primary ballot.

Following that, Marburger decided to run a write-in campaign in the primary.

Metcalfe won the nomination with 3,271 votes while Marburger got 2,731 write-in votes — 54 percent to 45 percent.

In the fall of 2014, Metcalfe beat Democrat Lisa Zucco.

At the time, Marburger said the paperwork he was working from indicated that he had filed everything necessary to be on the ballot.

He said won’t make the same mistake again.

“We will make sure we are there,” Marburger said.

Marburger graduated from Mars High School in 1975 and Penn State University in 1979 with a degree in agriculture business management. He is a fifth generation farmer and works his 170-acre property with his son. He also is employed by A.J. Myers and Sons.

Marburger has served 10 years on the Mars School Board and represents the district with the Butler County Vocational Technical School as treasurer.

He is a member of the Butler County Community College board of trustees and is on the personnel committee. He has been on the BC3 board since 2001.

He is a longtime member of the Glade Run Church in Cooperstown and a member of the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau and Pennsylvania Holstein Association.

Marburger and his wife, Butler County Treasurer Diane Marburger, have two grown children.

The 12th District covers Adams, Clinton, Cranberry, Forward, Middlesex and Penn townships as well as Callery, Mars, Seven Fields and Valencia.