Paul Stuart Aronsohn

Some clever campaign tactics, a successful fundraising operation, newspaper endorsements, a political environment that was advantageous to Democrats, and a late campaign visit from Christopher Van Hollen wasn't enough to help blind Rabbi Dennis Shulman run any stronger against U.S. Rep. Scott Garrett than any of this the three previous Democratic candidates.  Garrett beat Shulman 56%-42%, a stronger showing than his 55%-44% win over Paul Stuart Aronsohn in 2006.  Anne Wolfe won 41% in 2005, and Anne Sumers won 38% in 2002.

Paul Stuart Aronsohn, the Rotarian-American who ran for Congress against Scott Garrett in 2006, will endorse Dennis Shulman for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the fifth district. Shulman, a Rabbi and psychologist who has been blind since childhood, has raised nearly $190,000 since entering the race last fall.

Emerging as the Paul Stuart Aronsohn of 2007 is Richard Dennison, the Democratic candidate for State Senate in the seventh district. The 29-year-old undertaker/lawyer refuses to talk about state issues and appears to be mounting a campaign to oust George W. Bush, not Diane Allen. He has used two poorly attended press conferences to tie the three-term GOP Senator to the unpopular President, but is still unable to name a single vote Allen has cast during her twelve years in the Legislature where he would have voted differently.

Paul Stuart AronsohnRotarian-American Paul Stuart Aronsohn says he will "lead the effort" against GOP Rep. Scott Garrett's campaign for a fourth term.  While he "stopped short of announcing his candidacy," he said he will "continue my consultations and conversations about a possible Aronsohn '08 campaign -- with an eye toward a late spring announcement."