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| News Date | Wednesday, February 28, 2007 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Two Democrats are denying early endorsements of Rotarian-American Paul Stuart Aronsohn, who is mulling a 2008 rematch with GOP Congressman Scott Garrett. Aronsohn issued a press release on Tuesday claiming that Governor Jon Corzine and Democratic State Chairman Joseph Cryan will support him if he decides to run in 2008. But Corzine and Cryan have not endorsed anyone in the fifth district contest, and they seem highly unlikely to force any congressional candidates on the Bergen County Democratic Organization -- especially as the party faces a potentially divisive State Senate primary in the 37th district this spring.
While Aronsohn claims "the state's two top Democrats threw their support behind him," sources very close to Corzine and Cryan say the claim is not true. Corzine and Cryan said they would support Aronsohn for Congress if he is the Democratic nominee. "It means nothing, though," one Democratic source said of some gratuitous quotes releases by Aronsohn as endorsements. "If we find someone better, we'll take them." Aronsohn lost to Garrett by eleven percentage points in a strong Democratic year.
Paramus Mayor James Tedesco and Ogdensburg Mayor Jim Sekelsky are also viewed as potential House candidates. Tedesco has won twice in the politically competitive Paramus, while Sekelsky, a former state Finance Director for John Kerry's presidential campaign, won the Democratic mayoral nomination as a write-in candidate last year and then defeated a longtime Republican Mayor in the general election.
The super clever Aronsohn, now back at his private sector job with Pfizer, released a statement on Monday indicating that he will lead the effort to oust Garrett next year -- but, as Aronsohn put it, "stopped short of announcing his candidacy." The Corzine/Cryan endorsements -- about as accurate as his pledge to raise $2 million in his last campaign -- came on Tuesday.
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