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PA-13 Game Changer: Margolies Floats Bid for Schwartz Seat
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Last Edited | karin1492 Apr 09, 2013 09:23am |
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News Date | Tuesday, April 9, 2013 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | Former Congresswoman Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky said she may take a run at her old seat now that Rep. Allyson Schwartz is eying the Governor’s mansion. She’s well connected, and her in-laws are Bill and Hillary Clinton.
“It is premature, because we have a Congressperson in office now, but it is true that I am talking about it with party leaders and family members,” Margolies-Mezvinsky told Larry Kane.
She served in Congress from 1993 to 1995 when the 13th was a swing district. Observers attribute her loss to her deciding vote on President Bill Clinton’s 1993 budget and support for Clinton’s health care proposal.
In case that wouldn’t be enough to win the former President’s support, she has a more personal appeal: her son Marc married Chelsea Clinton in 2010.
“She has received the blessing of major Democratic Party leaders, and is being encouraged by President Bill Clinton,”
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