Pike Republicans go forward with new leader

Chris Decker takes the GOP helm MILFORD — The Pike County Republican Committee elected Christopher Decker as its new Chair. at their re-organization meeting and is looking forward to the November elections. According to a committee statement, “Decker brings with him a wealth of experience and knowledge and has generated new excitement within the committee and Pike County.” Chris Decker currently resides in Matamoras with his wife Jessica and two sons, Reagan Bennett and Landon Jefferson. He moved to Pike County in 2004 to take a position as project manager for a land development and residential construction company in Milford, where he worked on a number of large subdivision projects and was quickly promoted to vice president. Decker was born and raised in Orange County, N.Y. While in college in Albany, N.Y., he interned and worked for a prominent statewide legislative and political action department, spending his days lobbying the New York State Legislature, drafting legislation, and organizing campaigns and other political action efforts. Moving to Pike, he decided it was time to get more involved in the local party and quickly saw that there was a lack of younger people active in the party. He decided to address the issue and organized the Pike County Young Republicans (PCYR) which was quickly chartered by the Pennsylvania Federation of Young Republicans and became the first group of its kind in Northeast Pennsylvania. He since organized a successful “get out the vote” effort in Pike County for the statewide judicial candidates. The PCYR co-hosted the 2010 Lincoln Day Dinner with Pat Toomey as the guest speaker that brought together 185 people from Republican and conservative groups from around Pike County and the tri-state area. Decker said that he is looking forward to leading Pike County Republicans in the tradition of Ronald Reagan and he believes as President Reagan did that “Man is not free unless government is limited.”