Here’s another House candidate jumping in after the 2009 election, and this guy’s biography seems particularly intriguing:

A former assistant Bucks County prosecutor and Marine reservist who served in Iraq announced his candidacy Tuesday for the Republican nomination for the 8th Congressional District.
Dean Malik said it’s time to return a Republican to the district and criticized the direction of the country since President Barack Obama was elected last year.
”They have taken it upon themselves to reinvent, modify and tamper with this American dream,” he said outside the Bucks County Courthouse in Doylestown. ”The American dream, which always stood for opportunity and freedom, is now being turned into an American dream of entitlements and handouts.”
Malik, 38, of New Britain Township is a lawyer with Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin in Philadelphia. He graduated from Villanova University Law School in 1997 and worked in the county district attorney’s office from 2001-05. Married with three children, Malik is the son of immigrants; his father is from Pakistan, his mother from Lithuania.

The Democratic incumbent, Patrick Murphy, won reelection handily last year but won his first House race in 2006 by less than one percentage point, about 1,500 votes.