More family support from Frank Lautenberg’s family for Rep. Frank Pallone. Pallone is one of four Democrats who are running in the special election this year for the U.S. Senate seat. Lautenberg’s son, Josh Lautenberg, said this week that Pallone is the person that his father would have wanted to succeed him. Newark Mayor Cory Booker holds a nearly 40 percent lead in the polls for the Democratic primary.