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Pallone Wants A Progressive Senate Slot

Photo credit: Politickernj.com

Photo credit: Politickernj.com

With Congressional redistricting and the certain loss of one House seat on the minds of most New Jersey Congressmen, Frank Pallone is looking ahead to a 2014 run for U.S. Senate.

Pallone distributed slot buckets paid for by Pallone for Senate to delegates of the NJ Democratic convention in Atlantic City last week, according to Politickernj.

Pallone passed on a chance to run for Senate in 2002 when a scandal plagued Robert Torricelli dropped out of his campaign for reelection.  Frank Lautenberg came out of retirement and won Torricelli’s seat after the State Supreme Court ruled he could run even though the statutory deadline for replacing candidates on the ballot had passed.

Pallone raised and spent over $1 million in the hopes of going to the Senate in 2005 as Jon Corzine’s replacement.  Corzine resigned from the Senate during his only term to become governor.  Corzine selected Robert Menendez over Pallone as his replacement in the Senate.

Now Pallone is betting that Lautenberg, who is 87 years old, will not seek another term.

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Posted: May 16th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Frank Pallone | Tags: , | 8 Comments »

8 Comments on “Pallone Wants A Progressive Senate Slot”

  1. Freespeaker1976 said at 7:39 am on May 16th, 2011:

    One sure way to put a stake in that dream is to defeat him in 2012; but alas the odds of that are slim without jettisoning Plainfield from the district

  2. Justified Right said at 8:02 am on May 16th, 2011:

    When they redistrict, I hope his district reaches out to Howell 🙂

  3. Help! said at 11:41 am on May 16th, 2011:

    can’t anyone stop him??. he’s such a disaster, as leftist as they come..he should never have been plopped into the Congress,( it was just about being the only elected D when Cong. Howard dropped dead in ’88,-timing alone), and sure as hell should NOT be allowed to become a US Senator: SOMEONE needs step in with a strong message to take him out, in 2012!..

  4. Help said at 5:07 pm on May 16th, 2011:

    I do believe that these were from a fundraiser during the time he ran for senate. He is not using these as a means to run for Senate again….he’s just using left over materials.

  5. Help! said at 5:53 pm on May 16th, 2011:

    what difference does that make?.. what are all of his $ millions in out of district/state and union funds for?… it’s been very clear he’s been and still is, waiting for “the Laut” to either retire or pass on from this world, to try and grab his seat!..the main point is, he is way to the left, goes more so as time goes by, and we need somebody effective to challenge him, who can get him outa there, and finally,vote in our better interest!!

  6. Rick Ambrosia said at 7:29 pm on May 16th, 2011:

    Don’t you worry….we won’t need your vote. There will be plenty of us out there working to get the Congressman elected if he wants to run. RUN FRANK RUN!!!

  7. Michael Borg said at 9:59 pm on May 16th, 2011:

    Joe Kyrillos can beat Pallone in a statewide US Senate race!

  8. Abe said at 10:20 pm on May 16th, 2011:

    You know who can beat him? Rob Andrews, that is who. For the Democrats, statewide, Rob Andrews has better appeal than Frank Pallone.