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.”

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