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The Back Mountain resident plans run for the 10th District Republican nomination.

A Luzerne County resident who previously was involved in a multi-county campaign plans to seek the Republican nomination in the 10th Congressional District.
David Madeira, 42, of Lehman Township, hasn’t made a public announcement, but on Friday he confirmed to The Times Leader that he will run. He said he will officially declare later this month.
The chiropractor-turned-entrepreneur ran unsuccessfully in 2006 for the state Senate seat that was vacated when Charles Lemmond retired. He finished a distant second to eventual winner Lisa Baker in a five-person race for the GOP nod.
But that experience he gained campaigning and getting his name out to four of the 14 counties in the 10th District could prove important, said Terry Casey, the executive director of the Luzerne County Republican Party.
“Dave’s been around the block and he knows the deal,” Casey said.
The seat is held by two-term incumbent Chris Carney, D-Dimock Township. To date no Democrats have announced a primary challenge against Carney.
On the Republican side, Snyder County Commissioner Malcolm Derk, 31, of Freeburg, threw his hat in the ring Dec. 21. Former U.S. Attorney Tom Marino has been rumored to be looking at running, too. It’s been reported that he has met with National Republican Congressional Campaign officials in Washington about the race. Efforts to reach Marino on Friday were unsuccessful.
Madeira said he contemplated a run against Carney in 2008, but when Dan Meuser and Chris Hackett, two fellow Back Mountain businessmen, announced their candidacies, he backed away and supported Hackett. Hackett eventually defeated Meuser in the primary but then lost to Carney in the general election.
Madeira was on the fence but recently he started to climb down on the side of running.
“Some developments over the last two weeks led me to believe we were not going to field a strong candidate,” he said. Then two days ago the pro-life candidate made a decision insuring the voters had a choice.”
He said he’s tired of seeing the national debt skyrocket and congressmen, including Carney, handing out checks for hundreds of thousands of dollars like it’s their money. He said free spending and borrowing needs to be reined in.
“I have six children. I don’t like the idea of passing that burden on to them,” Madeira said.
He said his conservative viewpoint on the economy is something voters will get behind.
Madeira said he believes 2010 will see “a huge wave of support for ordinary people like myself” who run for office to change the country’s direction.
Michael Barley, spokesman for the Republican Party of Pennsylvania, said that having two declared Republicans this early in the year is a sign that “people think we can win this year.”
He said the 5-4 voter registration advantage the GOP has in the district bodes well in a year he believes will be anti-incumbent and anti-Democrat. “I believe it will be a very Republican year,” he added.
The district encompasses parts of Lackawanna, Luzerne, Lycoming and Tioga counties and all of Bradford, Montour, Northumberland, Pike, Snyder, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Union, Wayne and Wyoming counties.