Kean Jr. expected to challenge this brand-new Jersey congressman

Newark Star-Ledger ^ | April 12, 2019 | Jonathan D. Salant

[GuavaCheesePuff]

WASHINGTON — State Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean Jr. is expected to run for the U.S. House next year, giving national Republicans a major recruiting success following a midterm where Democrats captured four of the five GOP-held House seats.

Kean, R-Union, already has set up a fundraising committee and met with officials of the House Republicans’ political arm advance of his announcement scheduled for Tuesday in Clark. A campaign consultant, Harrison Neely, declined to comment.

[irishjuggler]

I kinda remember Kean pere as something of a liberal Republican, but whatevs. If Junior can claw back a House seat, more power to him. We’ll take what we can get at this point, esp. in a state like NJ.

[Zhang Fei]

[I kinda remember Kean pere as something of a liberal Republican]

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In NJ, there’s only one kind of Republican who wins statewide office - the liberal kind. It has to be said, however, that they are more conservative than the state’s Democrats.

[kearnyirish2]

Chris Christie was hardly a liberal; he had all the liberal forces of evil arrayed against him. The problem is that with each passing day, more and more productive people are leaving NJ; it gets harder for conservatives to win here.

[chuckee]

His old man , Tom, although a moderate Republican, was a good governor in the eighties when it came to cutting taxes and trying to get a handle on spending. That is the best you can expect from Jersey Republicans who labor with an increasingly blue electorate as taxes drive red voters out of state.

[Deplorable American1776]

If Kean runs, I might send him some money...a Republican who supports Trump 90% is better than a Dem who oppose Trump 100%.

[DoodleDawg]

Could be interesting.