Sixteen Democrats are under consideration for the first district congressional seat that Rob Andrews is vacating to run for the U.S. Senate, including Camille Andrews, the Congressman’s wife, according to a list sent out today by South Jersey Democratic leader George Norcross.
On the official Norcross short list: Senate Majority Leader Steve Sweeney; South Jersey AFL-CIO President Donald Norcross, Assembly Democratic Executive Director Bill Castner; Democratic strategist Steve Ayscue; the Camden County Democratic Co-Chairman; State Sens. Fred Madden and Dana Redd, the Democratic State Vice Chairwoman; Assemblymen Louis Greenwald, John Burzichelli and Paul Moriarty; Assemblywoman Sandra Love; Camden County Clerk Jim Beach, the Camden County Democratic Co-Chairman; Casino Control Commissioner Linda Kassekert; former State Sen. Raymond Zane, who had switched to the GOP in 2001 after 28 years as a Democratic Senator and has now switched back; Troy Singleton, an aide to Carpenters Union leader Frank Spencer; Burlington County Democratic Chairman Rick Perr, who would move into the district to run; and Andrews, a Dean at Rutgers-Camden Law School.
Assembly Speaker Joe Roberts has declined the chance to run for Andrews’ seat.
