Meet the conservative who might win New Jersey’s Senate seat Can a staunch conservative who unabashedly opposes President Barack Obama on everything — from taxes to health care to National Security Agency surveillance — win in deep-blue New Jersey?...Steve Lonegan thinks so — and is campaigning to prove it...Lonegan, a former Republican mayor of Bogota, New Jersey and statewide director of the free-market activist group Americans for Prosperity, has filed to run in a special election to fill the Senate vacancy created by the recent death of Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg...It will be an unusually short campaign season. The primary election to determine the Republican and Democratic candidates will take place on Aug. 13. The winners of those races will then have a mere eight weeks before the voters of New Jersey make their decision during an Oct. 16 special election three weeks before the general election. There will be no candidates for other offices or ballot initiatives for voters to consider, giving Lonegan a unique opportunity to keep the campaign focused on one thing: Obama...READ MORE Read more: dailycaller/2013/06/20/meet-the-conservative-who-might-win-new-jerseys-senate-seat/#ixzz2Wm7o8Er5
Posted on: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:41:56 +0000
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