He is the man who believes he could be governor, but years of political infighting have stranded him in Norristown, cowboy boots on his desk, surrounded by souvenir firearms and other relics of past success.
Bruce L. Castor Jr., the golden-boy prosecutor who became a feckless Montgomery County commissioner, is restive again. Eighteen months after being cut out of power by his fellow commissioners, he is eyeing a state Senate seat as an escape.
"We have embraced everything that I campaigned against, and we have failed to implement anything that I campaigned for," he said ruefully.
"I thought it would be totally opposite."
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