Update on NE PA. US House Races

[JPZenger]

http://www.timesleader.com/news/Carney__Kanjorski_report_on_coffers_10-20-2009.html?searchterm=carney

Excerpts:

"As of now, no candidates have stepped up to challenge Carney, from within his own party or on the Republican side. His opponent in the 2008 general election, Shavertown businessman Chris Hackett, said he is not entering the race next year.

U.S. Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski, D-Nanticoke, hasn’t officially declared he’s seeking re-election, but his spokesman said he’s raising money as if he is. If he does decide to run, he’ll first have to fight off a fellow Democrat in the primary before taking on a Republican challenger in the 2010 general election.

Lackawanna County Commissioner Corey O’Brien, a Democrat from Moosic, is trying to secure the 11th Congressional District seat. To do that he’ll have to defeat Kanjorski, who’s now in his 13th term. And O’Brien will have to do a lot of catching up on the campaign finance side. The campaign committee for O’Brien, whose candidate didn’t declare his intention to challenge Kanjorski until after the third quarter ended, had no money in the bank on Sept. 30.
Kanjorski’s campaign committee, on the other hand, had $808,136 on Sept. 30, according to the FEC report."