According to reports, Tom Ridge will announce whether or not he's running for Senate within the next two weeks.
But that's not the only open question -- if Ridge does decide to run, he's going to need to figure out in which state, because it turns out he has a claim on running in at least three of them.
In a June, 2008 foreign agent registration filing, Ridge listed Maryland as his residence and said that his firm, Ridge Global LLC, was a Delaware corporation. Ridge was also governor of Pennsylvania, leaving him with at least three 2010 races he could consider:
- Maryland, where he would challenge Barbara Mikulski
- Delaware, where he would try to fill Joe Biden's old seat
- Pennsylvania, where he would challenge Pat Toomey for the GOP nomination, and if he won, whoever wins the Democratic primary
In addition to showing that Ridge lives in Pennsylvania Maryland and incorporated his firm in Delaware, the document also shows that in 2007 Ridge earned nearly a half-million dollars representing the foreign government of Albania.
Perhaps more notably, even though Ridge was paid that money in January and November of 2007, he didn't report it until June 2008.
All the polls say that Ridge could mount a viable campaign in Pennsylvania. But as this document shows, if Ridge does run, his opponents will start out with serious questions to raise with him.
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Here are the key portions of Ridge's foreign agent registration filing: