Some fun facts about the upcoming election:

- One-third of the Scranton School Board is running for state office: Chris Phillips for the 22nd district Senate seat; Kathleen McGuigan for the 113th House district seat; and Bob Lesh for the 112th House district seat. Another school director, Brian Jeffers, was a rumored Senate candidate but he’s backing former Lackawanna County Commissioner Joe Corcoran.

- Democratic congressional candidate Corey O’Brien’s birthday is Sept. 11.

- State Senate candidate Thomas J. Fadden actually worked for New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani during Sept. 11.

- Mr. O’Brien is U.S. Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski’s most serious Democratic competition since his first race in 1984, when Mr. Kanjorski took out incumbent Democratic Rep. Frank Harrison. That was long before the 11th Congressional District’s boundary lines were rewritten to include Scranton.

Read the full Times-Tribune story here.

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