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PolitickerNJ: Christie May Appoint A Placeholder To U.S. Senate

David Samson

David Samson

PolitickerNJ is reporting that “several Republican sources” told them that Governor Chris Christie could appoint former State Attorney General David Samson to New Jersey’s vacant U.S. Senate seat as early as today.

Samson would be a placeholder, meaning that he would not run in the Special Election Christie called for October 16 to retain the seat.

Samson was Attorney General during the first year of the McGreevey administration.  He served in Governor Tom Kean’s administration as General Counsel to the NJ Turnpike Authority and as Chairman of the Governor’s Commission on the Laws Governing the University of Medicine and Dentistry (UMDNJ).  In the Florio administration, Samson was a member of the Governor’s Commission on Health Care Costs.

Samson was counsel to Christie’s 2009 gubernatorial campaign and Chairman of Christie’s Transition Team. Christie nominated Samson to Chair the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey, a position he has held since February of 2011.

Christie was U.S. Attorney while Samson was State Attorney General. Both of their lives were threatened by the Latin Kings street gang.

Samson is a founding member of the Wolf and Samson law firm.  The firm has offices in West Orange, New York and Trenton.

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Posted: June 6th, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: 2013 Election, 2014 U.S. Senate race, Port Authority, Senate Special Election | Tags: , , , | 3 Comments »

3 Comments on “PolitickerNJ: Christie May Appoint A Placeholder To U.S. Senate”

  1. Impressed again said at 9:14 am on June 6th, 2013:

    If true, another great decision by Gov. Christie

  2. Bob English said at 11:26 am on June 6th, 2013:

    I’ll vote for two great decisions (1) Having an election to fill the seat 2) Appointing a placeholder who will not run and one preposterous decision (having a special election 3 weeks before the general election at an additional cost of $12 million. Even if the special election had zero cost, there is no reason to have two elections within a span of three weeks.

  3. The reason is said at 12:31 pm on June 6th, 2013:

    getting the biggest Nov. win for the Gov., period..am fine with a temporary place-holder, but our field is actually rather slim.. It will be extremely tough to wrestle that seat from the D’s column.. Kim is the best overall choice as our candidate.. the Gov. needs a woman, like a Caroline C. for the new LG, for Nov., and even though I totally agree with 90 percent of Lonegan’s issues, we will never get him nominated, and so, still feel that Kim is the only R that makes sense this time,for this situation, if we really want an R US Senator, and I do!.. we MUST be about putting breaks on this out of control Washington admin. and debacle, and every Congressional and US Senate race will count, big-time- this is NO time to throw any seat away!.