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...JERSEY After two years off, Frank Lautenberg,78, is back on Capitol Hill after stepping in for Bob Torricelli...
...called Tim Pawlenty, the Republican majority leader in the Statehouse, just 90 minutes before he was set to announce his bid for the Senate and asked him to stand down so that Coleman could move in. The President's father, George H.W. Bush, tried unsuccessfully to persuade ex--New Jersey Governor Tom Kean to enter the race against then Senator Bob Torricelli...
...that we make so much fuss about the influence of money in politics and so little about an even older form of privilege: blood--or marriage. Two years ago, Jon Corzine of New Jersey spent $60 million of his own money to win a Senate seat. Others have tried to do it on $40 million or less and failed. Clearly, if your goal is to be a Senator, being the son of a Senator is equivalent to having something like $50 million. Like money, blood may not be enough to guarantee victory, but it's better than money in improving...
Dunay, ever on top of his game, is proud to say that he did begin his networking career in high school. As student government president, Dunay was able to meet the higher-ups in his local New Jersey political scene. “Everyone does have to start small,” he says...
...exact dates that Hitler experienced bomb scares; a few parts clean-cut prep school good ol’ boy, all tucked-in polo shirts and khakis; a few parts all-American gentleman, opening doors and shaking hands and even drifting into a patriotic Southern accent despite being a New Jersey native as well as a first generation American whose parents are from Romania and Turkey. But Sarokhan, really, is 100 percent ambition...