Judicial Candidates Maria Battista & Matt Wolford Join the Show

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🗓️ 27 October 2025

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: 4:05pm- Maria Battista—Republican Candidate for Pennsylvania Superior Court—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss her campaign. Battista “has more than 15 years of legal experience in civil, criminal, and administrative law and is a former Assistant District Attorney.” Plus, she discusses earning Scott Presler’s endorsement! To learn more about her campaign, visit: https://www.battistaforjudge.com. 4:30pm- Matt Wolford— Republican Candidate for Commonwealth Court in Pennsylvania—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his campaign. Wolford has “more than 35 years of legal experience” and “has served Pennsylvanians in both public service and private practice. Early in his career he served as a Deputy Attorney General in the Philadelphia office of the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General (OAG), where he represented Commonwealth agencies in civil litigation. He later became attorney-in-charge of the Environmental Crimes Section field office in Meadville and served as a Special Prosecutor for both the OAG and the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania.” To learn more about his campaign, visit: https://mattwolfordforjudge.com.

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0:36.3	will be speaking a big rally for him outside,
0:38.5	one of the early voting places. But I do not want to forget, obviously, we have very important
0:42.6	elections in Pennsylvania, judicial elections. So I'd like to welcome to the show right now,
0:47.3	Maria Batista. She is a Republican candidate for Pennsylvania Superior Court with more than 15 years
0:52.9	of legal experience in civil criminal and
0:55.5	administrative law. Maria, thanks for joining us here on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT. How are you?
1:01.3	I'm doing great. It's great to be with you today. I'm sitting in my car in Cambria County
1:06.4	and have a few drop-offs here before I get on to Bedford County.
1:11.0	We're hitting all 67 counties, and the last two counties I have to hit are Cambria and Bedford.
1:17.4	That's not bad.
1:18.1	So you've done 65 out of 67. Well done.
1:21.5	Yes, since May 20th.
1:23.4	Good, good for you.
1:25.1	All right, so tell us about your judicial view and why you want the job.
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