I'm from Illinois and I also think Lonegan is a terrible egomaniac candidate and he's rubbed me the wrong way since I first heard him speak in 2005 (It also doesn't help that his supporters act like Max Cleland/Tammy Duckworth supporters and pull the "How DARE you attack a DISABLED person! Shame on you!" if you criticize anything in his past).
But since you consider our opinions invalid since we're not from New Jersey, you might want to consider what your fellow New Jersey freepers have to say about Lonegan. They know him best and their assessment is pretty damning:
In addition to being an 0-5 loser since ending his term as a mediocre Mayor of a sh-thole borough, Lonegan suffers from Michael Savage syndrome, aka a nails on chalkboard voice that mouths whatever the Koolaid drinkers want to hear.
10 posted on 6/3/2014, 10:22:25 PM by Clemenza (Lurking)
Lonegan and his brother are, at a personal levels, complete and total arseholes to deal with, and most of the major donors in NJ have at this point figured this out through their personal interactions with the Lonegan brothers.
He is a bottomless black hole where tea party/conservatives can throw their political donations, sucking political monies away from more viable candidates and causes elsewhere.
He’s basically running the Pat and Bey Buchanan 1990’s political donation/consulting racket on a local level, it’s an ugly machine and you don’t want to be associated with it.
6 posted on 6/3/2014, 8:58:43 AM by JerseyHighlander
Monmouth poll of NJ-3
Tom MacArthur (R) 51%, Aimee Belgard (D) 41%.