Robert "Bob" Mensch is a Republican politician. He is a former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Pennsylvania House of Representatives

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two year terms from single member districts....

, where he represented the 147th legislative district

Pennsylvania House of Representatives, District 147

The 147th District of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives is located in Montgomery County and includes the following areas:* Douglass Township* East Greenville* Green Lane* Lower Frederick Township* Marlborough Township* New Hanover Township...

. He was first elected in 2006

Pennsylvania House of Representatives elections, 2006

The 2006 Elections for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives were held on November 7, 2006, with all districts being contested. Necessary primary elections were held on May 16, 2006. Members elected in 2006 were inaugurated on January 2, 2007...

 to succeed the retiring Raymond Bunt, Jr..

Mensch attended Valley Forge Military Academy and College

Valley Forge Military Academy and College

Valley Forge Military Academy & College is an American all male preparatory boarding school and coeducational junior college in the military school tradition...

 on a music scholarship. He worked for 27 years as a general manager at AT&T

AT&T

AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...

 and later for ARBROS Communications as a National Sales Director. In 2010, he voted to make texting while driving

Texting while driving

Texting while driving is the act of composing, sending, reading text messages, email, or making other similar use of the web on a mobile phone while operating a motor vehicle. The practice has been viewed by many people and authorities as dangerous. It has also been ruled as the cause of some motor...

 a secondary rather than primary offense, watering down the House version of the bill which would make texting while driving a primary offense.

He served as a Marlborough Township

Marlborough Township, Pennsylvania

Marlborough Township is a township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,178 at the 2010 census.It is part of the Upper Perkiomen School District.-Geography:...

 Supervisor from 2004 through 2006. He is the co-founder of the Unami Watershed Conservancy and chairman of the Upper Perkiomen Valley Regional Planning Commission.

PA State Senate

On July 28, 2009, State Senator Rob Wonderling

Rob Wonderling

Robert C. Wonderling was a Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate who represented the 24th District from 2003 to 2009. The district he represented includes portions of Montgomery, Berks, Lehigh and Northampton Counties and includes the population centers of Easton, Lansdale, and Emmaus...

 retired from his seat in the 24th district in order to assume the presidency of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. Mensch announced his intention to seek the Republican nomination for the special election as soon as Wonderling announced his plans. With Montgomery County Commissioner and former District Attorney Bruce Castor

Bruce L. Castor, Jr.

Bruce L. Castor, Jr. is an American lawyer and Republican politician from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Castor was district attorney for Montgomery County from January 2000 through January 2008 when he took a seat on the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners...

 and former State Representative Jay Moyer withdrawing their names, Mensch had a clear path to the nomination that he received on August 6.

On September 29, Mensch defeated Democrat Lansdale

Lansdale, Pennsylvania

Lansdale is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 28 miles northwest of Philadelphia. Early in the 20th century, its industries included agricultural implement works, a canning factory, foundries, brickyards, a silk mill, and manufacturers of cigars, stoves, shirts, rope, iron drain pipe,...

 Borough Council member Anne Henning Scheuring with 66% of the vote. In the 2010 general election he defeated Democrat Bill Wallace with 60% of the vote. http://www.electionreturns.state.pa.us/ElectionsInformation.aspx?FunctionID=13&ElectionID=39&OfficeID=12#24

In the News

In May, 2011, Mensch was found guilty of disorderly conduct in a road-rage incident with a handgun, as reported in The Morning Call.

External links

• Pennsylvania State Senate: Bob Mensch official PA Senate website
• Pennsylvania Senate Republican Caucus: Bob Mensch official Party website
• Bob Mensch - official campaign website