All candidates like being endorsed by fellow politicians.

Frank Pallotta, who seeks the Republican congressional nomination in CD-5, is no exception.

His campaign just dispatched a release trumpeting endorsements from 29 mayors or former mayors in a district that ranges over Bergen, Passaic, Sussex and Warren counties.

As we said, all well and good,  but here’s a valid question: What does it mean?

Sometimes, being endorsed by 29 people means you have 29 votes.

It’s not as if the mayor of Hardyston (he is on the list) commands a platoon of 500 campaign workers.

Pallotta looks at it differently.

He said today that he sees running for Congress as, in effect, individual races in the almost 80 towns in the district. He reasons that mayors have won the trust of voters in their towns, so residents respect their views.

Pallotta acknowledges, however, that “some mayors are incredibly powerful, some are not.”

Before Pallotta gets to Josh Gottheimer, who he failed to unseat last year, he has to win the Republican primary next June.

Also running are Nick D’Agostino, Nick De Gregorio and most recently, John Flora, the mayor of Fredon in Sussex County.

For the record, Pallotta was endorsed by the mayors or former mayors from the following towns:

Bergen: Bogota, Closter, Englewood Cliffs, Hillsdale, Mahwah (two formers), New Milford, Norwood, Old Tappan, Upper Saddle River (former mayor), River Vale, Washington Township, Woodcliff Lake

Passaic: Ringwood, West Milford

Sussex: Branchville, Franklin, Frankford Township, Hamburg, Hardyston, Lafayette, Wantage

Warren:  Allamuchy, Belvidere, Hackettstown, Hope (deputy mayor), Liberty Township, Mansfield, Oxford