Monday, June 03, 2013
Senator Frank Lautenberg dead. Chris Christie will appoint a successor, which means that the Senate will be 52-2-46 through November. (The two independents, Bernie Sanders (Vermont) and Angus King (Maine) caucus with the Democrats, but I don't see a lot of work getting done from here out.) The winner of the replacement election only gets to fill the remainder of Lautenberg's term, which means that next year there will be another election for the full six year term. New Jersey elections are famously expensive because the state straddles the New York/Philadelphia media market. Newark's mayor, Cory Booker, had been planing a run at it-- Lautenberg, who was 89, had already announced that he wouldn't run again. I guess if Booker wants it he'll have a whack at running in November, but Lautenberg up and dying is a real stick in the spokes for him.
// posted by Bill @ 10:28 AM 
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