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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