Pallone Wants A Progressive Senate Slot
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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.
Posted: May 16th, 2011 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Frank Pallone | Tags: Frank Pallone, U.S. Senate | 8 Comments »