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Amedore takes step toward Senate run
Assemblyman awaits outcome of district map plan
Friday, February 10, 2012
By Justin Mason (Contact)
Gazette Reporter

CAPITAL REGION — Republican Assemblyman George Amedore has taken the first step toward running for a proposed new state Senate seat by establishing a fundraising arm for an election campaign.
The Rotterdam home builder said he will continue to explore a run for the Senate while awaiting the state Legislature’s final redistricting maps. The state’s Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment released a draft that included a new district that many consider tailor-made for Amedore.
“It’s part of the exploratory process,” he said Thursday, less than a day after forming the committee. “We’ll see what happens with the whole redistricting.”
Amedore didn’t rule out a run for the Senate even if the new maps with 63 districts isn’t ratified. He acknowledged he’d consider running for a vacant seat, but said waging a primary against a fellow Republican is out of the question.
“I’m not considering a primary against an existing incumbent senator,” he said.
The George Amedore for Senate committee appeared Thursday and allows his boosters to begin raising money for a potential campaign. Amedore continues to maintain a separate committee for an Assembly run that contained $51,194, according to a disclosure filed in January..........................>>>>..................>>>>...................http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2012/feb/10/0210_amedore/

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Quackenbush to run for seat in Assembly
April 10, 2012
By JOHN R. BECKER , The Leader Herald

FONDA - Minden Supervisor Thomas L. Quackenbush will formally announce Wednesday he is running for the Assembly in the newly formed 111th District, which includes Montgomery County.

The announcement will take place at 4 p.m. on the steps of the Old County Courthouse on Park Street.

Current Assemblyman George Amedore, R-Rotterdam, is running for the state Senate in the newly created 46th District, creating the Assembly vacancy....................>>>>....................>>>>.............http://www.leaderherald.com/pa.....sembly.html?nav=5011