Scranton Mayor Chris Doherty, a candidate for governor, is being urged by some fellow Democrats to give up his gubernatorial ambition and run instead for the Pennsylvania Senate seat to be vacated at year’s end by Democratic Sen. Robert J. Mellow, a Doherty campaign aide said today.
While not saying yes or no, Doherty “is listening to what they have to say,” said the aide, who was not authorized to give his name for the record.
Scranton, in which Doherty is just beginning his third term as mayor, is within Mellow’s 22d Senate District, which includes parts of Lackawanna, Luzerne and Monroe Counties in northeastern Pennsylvania.
Doherty was in Harrisburg to attend a meeting with Gov. Rendell and several other candidates for governor today, when word spread through the Capitol that Mellow, the longest-serving member of the legislature, had decided not to run again in November.
Read the entire Inquirer story here.
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