Owen Brennan · Republican · PA-12
A Marine. A welder. A father. Owen's running because the incumbent voted with Washington and the plants kept closing — and somebody from this district needs to say enough.
Where Owen stands
Tax credits that reward hiring in Scranton, not Shanghai. Tear up the trade deals that gutted Tunkhannock and shrunk P&G Mehoopany. Fund welding, electrical, and pipefitting apprenticeships through the IBEW and Steamfitters halls — not another four-year-degree lecture.
Finish the wall. Hire 2,000 more agents. End catch-and-release. Treat fentanyl trafficking as the weapon of mass destruction it is — three families on my street have buried kids to it.
Curriculum posted online before the school year — not after a FOIA fight. Politics out of K-8 classrooms. Build vo-tech back into Scranton, Hazleton, and Wilkes-Barre Area schools so a kid can graduate with a credential, not just a loan.
Fund Scranton PD, Wilkes-Barre PD, and every borough in the 12th — pay, training, body cams. Mandatory minimums for fentanyl dealers. Defeat soft-on-crime DAs who keep cutting plea deals while overdoses climb.
Brennan Welding · Est. 2014
11 paychecks. Every one local.
Meet Owen
Eight years in the Marine Corps. Two tours — Anbar and Helmand. Came home to South Scranton, used the GI Bill, and opened a welding shop that hires guys his buddies used to share a shift with before the plant closed.
Married to Kate, a 5th-grade teacher at Scranton Catholic. Three kids — Liam, Maeve, Patrick. Same pew at St. Peter's every Sunday. Same row home off Linden Street his grandfather bought after the mines.
Read his full storyEndorsed by
Not a stack of D.C. logos. Sheriffs, locals, and union halls who've shown up for the 12th every winter — and aren't going anywhere.
Sheriff Tom Walsh
Lackawanna County
PA FOP Lodge 17
Scranton Police
NEPA Building Trades Council
14,000 welders, electricians, pipefitters
IBEW Local 81
Electricians · Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
Steamfitters Local 449
NEPA pipefitters
VFW Post 1944
Wilkes-Barre
Fmr. Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta
Border-security advocate
Lackawanna County GOP
County committee, unanimous
Chip in
No D.C. consultants. No coastal ad agencies. The signs get printed at a shop on Spruce Street. The diners on Lackawanna Ave feed the volunteers. Your money pays the people who live here.
Choose an amount
Federal law limits individual contributions to $3,300 per election. Contributions are not tax-deductible.
Get in the fight
Knock ten doors. Make ten calls. Drop a sign on the lawn. One neighbor, one porch — that's how PA-12 flips. The other side has D.C. money. We have the diner, the parish hall, and you.
Town hall · Lackawanna County
Open mic. Real questions.
On the trail
SAT
May 18
Coffee with Owen — Pittston Diner
8:00 AM · 142 Main St, Pittston
TUE
May 21
Town Hall — Wilkes-Barre
7:00 PM · King's College, Burke Auditorium
SAT
May 25
Memorial Day Walk — Scranton
10:00 AM · Courthouse Square
In the news
The Times-Tribune · 2026-05-04
Brennan rolls out apprenticeship plan: $4,000 tax credit per NEPA hire
Citizens' Voice · 2026-04-29
"Why a welder is running for Congress" — Op-Ed
WBRE Eyewitness News · 2026-04-22
NEPA Building Trades endorses Brennan, calls him "one of ours"