Posted on 06/06/2013 10:44:13 AM PDT by Perdogg
Chris Christie just announced that the NJ State Attorney General Jeff Chiesa will be appointed to the Senate pending the Special Election in October.
Chiesa will not run
(Excerpt) Read more at legalinsurrection.com ...
That’s pretty much a confirmation that Christie plans to switch parties.
Sen. Jeffrey S. Chiesa, R-NJ. (He just said he was a registered Republican)
Yep all that’s left is an official ceremony
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
NJ governor names state Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa to temporarily fill US Senate seat
By: ANGELA DELLI SANTI and GEOFF MULVIHILL , AP
Updated: June 6, 2013 - 12:44 PM
TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has named state Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa (kee-AY’-sah) to temporarily fill the U.S. Senate seat that opened up this week after Frank Lautenberg’s death.
Chiesa worked with Christie in the U.S. attorney’s office before becoming the top lawyer for the state government. He has overseen gun buyback programs all over the state, but has not had a particularly high profile.
Christie has scheduled a special election for October to fill the seat until it expires in January 2015. Christie says Chiesa will not seek the seat for the rest of the term.
Lautenberg served nearly 30 years in the Senate. The liberal Democrat was 89.
As candidates start lining up to run for the U.S. Senate seat that opened when Frank Lautenberg died Monday, Gov. Chris Christie appeared poised Thursday to name someone to fill the office temporarily.
The Republican governor scheduled a 1:30 p.m. news conference in Trenton, but did not specify a topic. He has said he expected to have a senator working in Washington by next week.
Lautenberg died Monday after nearly 30 years in the Senate. The liberal Democrat was 89.
Christie is expected to name a Republican to fill the seat until after a special election set for Oct. 16. He has not said whether he will name a placeholder or someone who will seek a full term.
Whoever wins in October will have to run again in the fall of 2014 when the term is up.
The races will shape up quickly because of a deadline Monday for candidates to file papers declaring they are in the race. A primary is set for August.
On Thursday, U.S. Rep. Rush Holt became the first Democrat to announce he’s seeking his party’s nomination.
In an email Thursday to supporters, he explained why he’s running. “The reason is simple,” he wrote. “I believe I am the best candidate to continue the passionate advocacy for progressive values that Sen. Lautenberg exemplified.”
Holt, now 64, was assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory for most of the 1990s before being elected to Congress in 1998. Around his central New Jersey district, it’s not uncommon to see a bumper sticker that proclaims, accurately: “My congressman IS a rocket scientist.”
He’s considered one of the most liberal members of New Jersey’s congressional delegation. He’s pushed for laws against racial profiling and has been critical of drilling for oil and natural gas on public lands and waters.
Two well-funded Democrats, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone and Newark Mayor Cory Booker, had expressed interest in the seat before Lautenberg died, but neither has made an announcement so far. Booker began raising money to seek the seat in January and has brought in about $2 million.
The only Republican in the race so far is former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan, a conservative who has twice sought his party’s nomination for governor.
Lonegan, who runs the New Jersey office for American for Prosperity, said Wednesday that he looks forward to weighing in on national issues such as the Obama administration’s handling of the attack last year at the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, and the selective scrutiny of conservative groups’ nonprofit tax applications.
Not that this all matters much... Cory Booker has this one in the bag.
Why do you say that?
its at least one less vote for Dems hopefully for 5 months....
His political actions since Sandy indicates that he may have burned his bridges with Republicans.
Christie just threw the Senate race to the democrats.
Good riddance. That way he can be honest with himself when he kisses 0bama's ass.
But this guy is a Republican. RINO, most likely, but not someone whose votes will echo Harry Reid’s.
like the Republicans were ever gonna win that one.......placeholder at best.
bump
Unfortunately Chiesa’s not running.
Chiesa already said he won’t run in the election.
Thanks for nothing, fatso.
10% voted for his primary opponent last Tuesday...FWIW..
I know I won’t be voting for his fat a$$ in the fall.
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