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Election Day Battleground Bergen
With less than three weeks left before Election Day, candidates in the state’s 40 legislative districts have spent varying sums — in some cases just thousands of dollars, in other districts more than a million — to convince voters that they should be sitting in the Legislature at a job that pays $49,000 annually.
Topping the list of New Jersey’s most expensive races is the redesigned 38th District, which includes parts of Bergen and Passaic counties, where Democrat Sen. Bob Gordon of Fair Lawn faces a formidable challenge from Republican Bergen County Freeholder John Driscoll of Paramus. This race, which will wind up costing perhaps millions of dollars, has become the symbolic race in the state this year. (Harrison for The Record)
