ERIC MENCHER / Staff Photographer
Montco Commissioner Bruce L. Castor Jr., the former golden-boy prosecutor, at a groundbreaking in West Conshohocken.
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Montco's Castor eyeing state Senate bid
Mensch has declined to clear the path.
"He's been on television all those years, but it's about who understands the people," Mensch said.
If Castor is beaten, he's considering still running for the Senate seat in the 2010 primary.
It is a potential fallback plan to escape a commissioner's office.
The certificate of election as a county commissioner hangs in the restroom, and Matthews has been Photoshopped out of a group portrait of the county's 2007 GOP team.
The office is otherwise decorated in Early Arsenal: his great-grandfather Smith's mayoral rifle, a gift rifle and saber from his time as a prosecutor, and a replica of the pistol used in a Norristown State Hospital shooting.
Castor toyed with a dagger - a relic from a distant stabbing, sometime in 1986 in Pottstown - as he considered where endless public appearances and political warfare had gotten him.
"I can sometimes get somebody to fix a pothole," he said.
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