Judy Feder, the Georgetown University dean who unsuccessfully sought to unseat Rep. Frank Wolf in the U.S. House last year, has filed papers to again challenge the 10th District Republican in 2008.
Feder, a Democrat, sent a statement of candidacy to the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday, indicating an early decision to make another bid for the sprawling Northern Virginia district.
Despite soured public opinion on the Iraq War and Bush administration and a robust fundraising operation that came close to matching the incumbent’s war chest, Feder took only 40.96 percent of the vote to Wolf’s 57.32 percent last November. After the election, Feder returned to her position as dean of Georgetown’s Public Policy Institute.
The Examiner could not reach Wolf nor Feder for comment Thursday. Nevertheless, University of Virginia’s political guru Larry Sabato is betting on Wolf. He said, though, that Feder did well last year for a challenger in “an uphill race against an entrenched incumbent.”
Wolf, the longest-serving of the state’s 11 congressmen, first took office in 1981 and sits on the powerful House Appropriations Committee.
