U.S. Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.), a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, announced today he is going to run for the Senate next year.
Castle, a former governor, will seek the seat formerly held by Vice President Joseph Biden. Former Biden aide Ted Kaufman currently holds the seat, but has said he won't run next year. Biden's son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, is expected to seek the seat.
During the 2008 campaign cycle, CUNA's political action committee gave Castle's campaign $2,000 and NAFCU's PAC contributed $1,000.
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Lackawanna (Pa.) County Commissioner Corey O'Brien announced he plans to challenge Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.), one of the strongest supporters of credit unions in Congress, in next year's primary.
O'Brien, who is half way through his first term, announced his candidacy last Saturday and said Northeast Pennsylvania needed new blood in Congress and criticized Kanjorski for arranging the allocation of federal money to a now-defunct company run by his nephews, according to an account in The Scranton-Times Tribune.
Kanjorski has never been charged with any wrongdoing, and his campaign spokesman, Ed Mitchell, told the paper that O'Brien is making a "wild statement" that was "almost libelous."
Kanjorski, who has mostly been re-elected easily, faced a tough challenge last year from Hazelton Mayor Lou Barletta and won by four percentage points.
The PACs of CUNA and NAFCU have each given Kanjorski's campaign $5,000 this cycle and both gave him $10,000 in 2008. Employees of credit unions affiliated with both groups volunteered on Kanjorski's behalf.
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