State Rep. Sheryl Delozier has an opponent in the 88th District, but it's not whom she expected.



While Cumberland County Commissioner Gary Eichelberger has said he is considering a run, the first to say he is running is Joshua Coward, a 23-year Harrisburg Area Community College student from Mechanicsburg. Coward plans to run as a Democrat.



Getting quickly into the fray, Coward on Friday launched a website about his candidacy and another website attacking Delozier.



On his website, joshcoward.com, he lists some of the issues important to him, such as budgetary reform, electoral reform, including term limits, increasing the speed limit to 70 mph, lifting a ban on Sunday hunting and reforming tax codes.



His attacks against Delozier on the other website, www.baddelozier.info, were more pointed.



He said "Sheryl Delozier is bad for Pennsylvania," and listed nine reasons people should not vote for her.



Coward at first incorrectly claimed on the website that Delozier takes a $163 per diem when she is in Harrisburg, uses the state car and accepts state health insurance.



By later in the day Friday, Coward had removed those claims from the website. By Friday evening, the website linked to www.joshcoward.com.



Coward said he grew up in a military family and joined the U.S. Marine Corps after graduating from Mechanicsburg Area High School. He had to leave the military because of medical reasons.



He worked for a year for the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency and is now studying political science at HACC with the hope of attending law school at Dickinson. He lives in Mechanicsburg with his wife and daughter.



Delozier, 44, who lives in Lower Allen Twp., is seeking her third term as state representative. She previously worked for the state Public Utility Commission.



Eichelberger said this month that he might consider a run against Delozier, but had not yet made up his mind. He did not return phone calls Friday.



Margie Stuski, who ran against Delozier in 2008 and 2010, said she does not plan to run this year. She is a member of Wormleysburg Borough Council.