Lunching today at the Capital Grille on South Broad, a hatchery for political schemes of all stripes: Lehigh County Executive Don Cunningham, who says he is running for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2010; former City Controller Jonathan Saidel; Common Pleas Judge John Younge of Philadelphia, a Democratic nominee for Superior Court in the Nov. 6 election; Republican consultant Aaron Cohen; and Democratic operative Charles Breslin, a confidant of Gov. Rendell.
Heard in the Hall hears that among the items on the menu was talk that Saidel might run for lieutenant governor three yeras hence, perhaps in alliance with Cunningham.
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