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December 26, 2009
Gordon: ‘I’m running to win’
The Democratic primary in the 6th Congressional District is officially a three-way contest, now that Lower Merion Township Commissioner Brian Gordon has decided to jump into the increasingly contentious fight between Doug Pike and Manan Trivedi.
A couple weeks after pa2010.com first reported Gordon’s interest in the race, he has filed FEC paperwork, put together a group of policy advisers and is currently looking for a campaign manager. He made his final decision in a statement last week, and is planning a more formal announcement for January.
“I’m in, and I’m running to win,” Gordon said Saturday. “It’s been a process. You have to make sure you’re family’s on board, that you have local support and donors who are willing to finance campaign. I had to go through that process before making the decision to run.”
Gordon has his work set out for him, with both Trivedi and Pike already deep into the work of fundraising and building support. He acknowledged that “gearing up quickly” will be critical. And while it may seem too late to report any significant fundraising haul by the close of the fourth quarter this month, Gordon said “wait and see.”
Earlier this month, Gordon, who has been a leader in open-space issues and an advocate against the use of eminent domain land acquisitions in Ardmore, said he could better sell his candidacy to 6th District voters that have sent Democrats packing all decade.
“I looked at the field of candidate, and they seem like very good people, very nice guys,” he said. “But they did not strike me as very compelling or very likely to prevail [in the general election] next year. … I have the best ideas and I can best articulate them to the voters of the 6th Congressional District.”
December 26, 2009 at 4:51 pm
from: http://www.pa2010.com/2009/12/gordon-im-running-to-win/
December 25, 2009
Gordon makes run for Congress official
By Cheryl Allison of the Main Line Times
Lower Merion Township Commissioner Brian A. Gordon has made it official — in vigorous terms.
“I am running for the Sixth Congressional District of Pennsylvania and I am in this race to win,” Gordon, of Merion, said in a press release announcing his candidacy Tuesday.
“I think I can win not only in the primary but in the general election,” he said in a brief interview.
A Democrat, Gordon had confirmed last week that he was “exploring” a run for the seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach in 2010. Gerlach, a Republican who has held the seat since 2002, is running to be Pennsylvania’s next governor.
“I am in the early stages of organizing the campaign. I am assembling a core staff of professionals and volunteers. I am consulting with a constellation of stellar policy advisers who are experts in their fields and experts on repairing the U.S. economy, reducing the cost of health care, protecting the environment and bringing clarity and cost control to American foreign policy,” Gordon said in the statement.
Gordon, an attorney who grew up in Lower Merion, was elected in November to his second four-year term representing Ward 12.
He pledged to run a “campaign of ideas.”
“This will be a campaign to solve the major challenges of our time: the economic recovery and jobs, reducing the national debt and controlling health-care costs, which consume over 16 percent of our GNP,” he said. “This will be a campaign to protect the environment and preserve open space, which itself will create jobs for this region.
“Finally, the campaign will incorporate a foreign policy which is based on diplomacy first,” Gordon continued. “We must also narrow the application of force to objectives which are achievable and attainable that will bring many of our forces home soon.”
He said those ideas will come “from all points of the political spectrum.”
“The best ideas don’t come from any single group but from a composite,” Gordon said in an interview, adding that he believes he has shown in his work on the local board that he has “tried to reach “I think the inclination to solve problems is really what people want,” he said.
A board colleague, Republican Commissioner V. Scott Zelov of Haverford, confirmed earlier this month that he also is “seriously considering” a run for the Sixth District seat, but he had not officially announced his candidacy as of this week.
In what is shaping up to be a crowded race on both sides in the May 2010 primary, three other Republicans and two Democrats have said they will seek the seat.
“I am running for the Sixth Congressional District of Pennsylvania and I am in this race to win,” Gordon, of Merion, said in a press release announcing his candidacy Tuesday.
“I think I can win not only in the primary but in the general election,” he said in a brief interview.
A Democrat, Gordon had confirmed last week that he was “exploring” a run for the seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach in 2010. Gerlach, a Republican who has held the seat since 2002, is running to be Pennsylvania’s next governor.
“I am in the early stages of organizing the campaign. I am assembling a core staff of professionals and volunteers. I am consulting with a constellation of stellar policy advisers who are experts in their fields and experts on repairing the U.S. economy, reducing the cost of health care, protecting the environment and bringing clarity and cost control to American foreign policy,” Gordon said in the statement.
Gordon, an attorney who grew up in Lower Merion, was elected in November to his second four-year term representing Ward 12.
He pledged to run a “campaign of ideas.”
“This will be a campaign to solve the major challenges of our time: the economic recovery and jobs, reducing the national debt and controlling health-care costs, which consume over 16 percent of our GNP,” he said. “This will be a campaign to protect the environment and preserve open space, which itself will create jobs for this region.
“Finally, the campaign will incorporate a foreign policy which is based on diplomacy first,” Gordon continued. “We must also narrow the application of force to objectives which are achievable and attainable that will bring many of our forces home soon.”
He said those ideas will come “from all points of the political spectrum.”
“The best ideas don’t come from any single group but from a composite,” Gordon said in an interview, adding that he believes he has shown in his work on the local board that he has “tried to reach “I think the inclination to solve problems is really what people want,” he said.
A board colleague, Republican Commissioner V. Scott Zelov of Haverford, confirmed earlier this month that he also is “seriously considering” a run for the Sixth District seat, but he had not officially announced his candidacy as of this week.
In what is shaping up to be a crowded race on both sides in the May 2010 primary, three other Republicans and two Democrats have said they will seek the seat.
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