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Encyclopedia > Bob Torricelli

Robert Guy Torricelli (born August 27, 1951), nicknamed "the Torch," is an American politician from the U.S. state of New Jersey. Torricelli, a Democrat, served 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives before being elected to the U.S. Senate. He served a single term in the Senate and decided not to run for reelection after being implicated in a bribery and campaign finance scandal involving David Chang, an imprisoned Chinese businessman.


Torricelli attended Rutgers University both for undergraduate and law school, receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974 and his law degree in 1977. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1978 and later attended Harvard University, earning a master's degree in public administration in 1980.


Torricelli was an assistant to the Governor Brendan Byrne from 1975 to 1977. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 1996 and as a U.S. Senator from 1997 to 2003. In 2000 he headed the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, presiding over one of their most successful years in some time (they picked up 5 seats).


In the middle of an increasingly competitive race against Republican Doug Forrester, Torricelli decided not to run for reelection after being implicated in a bribery scandal with a businessman connected to China named David Chang. Torricelli stated that despite his leaving public office in a different way than he planned, he is proud of his service. Late in the election season in 2002, the New Jersey Supreme Court allowed the Democratic Party to replace Torricelli's name on the ballot with that of former U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg.


In 2003 Toricelli raised money for Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry and also donated money (http://www.counterpunch.org/lewis03062004.html) to a 527 group that ran extremely controversial ads juxtaposing candidate Howard Dean with Osama bin Laden.


External links

  • U.S. Senate biography (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000317)
  • CNN report on Torricelli dropping out of Senate race (http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/30/elec02.nj.s.torricelli.race/)


Preceded by:
Bill Bradley		 U.S. Senator from New Jersey
1997–2003		 Succeeded by:
Frank Lautenberg





  Results from FactBites:
 
CNN.com - Torricelli drops out of N.J. race - Sep. 30, 2002 (944 words)
Torricelli's decision sent Democrats scrambling for a replacement to face Republican Doug Forrester in November.
Torricelli was admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee this summer, following an investigation into whether he had improperly accepted gifts from businessman David Chang, a campaign contributor who earlier this year pleaded guilty to violating federal election laws.
Torricelli, who once served in the office of Vice President Walter Mondale, said he made mistakes, but insisted he was not guilty of all the charges leveled against him.
Rewriting Political Rules - 9/26/02-S. Adubato (813 words)
Torricelli is committed to spending millions of dollars to blast Forrester as a far-right, out of touch Republican who is against a woman's right to choose and who looking to invest retirees' social security funds in the roller coaster stock market.
But Bob Torricelli is the only issue when it comes to politics in the state of New Jersey and he only has himself to blame.
Torricelli is fighting it through the courts and through his lawyers, but this election has nothing to do with courts, lawyers or legalities.
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