Former Rep. Tom Marino, a Pennsylvania Republican who abruptly resigned from the House in January of 2019, declared Sunday that he would campaign in this year’s contest to retake his old job as Lycoming County district attorney―an announcement he made from his condominium in Vero Beach, Florida.
PennLive.com explains that Marino moved to the Sunshine State in October but still owns property back in Williamsport in the north-central part of Pennsylvania. “I don’t like being retired” said the former congressman, whose 2017 nomination to serve as director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy collapsed following a devastating report from the Washington Post and "60 Minutes" that revealed that Marino had pushed legislation through Congress at the behest of the pharmaceutical industry to deliberately hobble the DEA's ability to crack down on the black market flood of prescription narcotics.
Marino, who served as district attorney from 1992 until he left to become a U.S. attorney in 2002, is the only declared candidate running to succeed incumbent Ryan Gardner, a fellow Republican who is leaving to seek a local judgeship. The Republican primary will take place in May, and the winner should have no trouble in the November general election in a county that Donald Trump carried 70-29.