Steve Lonegan’s Long Shot
A conservative battles the odds in deep-blue New Jersey.
By Robert Costa
Bogota, N.J. — Steve Lonegan’s Senate campaign is being run out of his basement. Three tables are covered with blue bumper stickers, and a lone staffer — Sean Carney, a recent graduate of Loyola University — sits by the phone. A pile of dolls and plastic toys discarded by Lonegan’s grown-up daughters is stashed in a corner.
It’s base camp for the Republican party’s last, best hope of winning a Senate seat this year.
Most Republicans, however, aren’t paying attention — at least not yet. Newark mayor Cory Booker, a Democratic celebrity, is the frontrunner for October’s special election, and Lonegan is considered the longest of long shots — a tea-party outsider in a deep-blue state.
But he’s gearing up for a battle. The former mayor of this sleepy suburban town predicts low turnout and conservative enthusiasm will make him competitive, and he dismisses Booker’s popularity as adoration by liberals who don’t live in the Garden State.
https://www.nationalreview.com/article/352430/steve-lonegans-long-shot-robert-costa
It’s too bad he’s not getting more traction because Lonegan would be a great Republican representative. He’s fiscally conservative and actually does what he says he’s going to do. What a concept.
I saw him on Fox news 5 this AM. He has all the right ‘talking points’. Not unlike Mitt Romney the first time around, he needs to get more ‘down to earth’. I’m voting for him but he needs the votes of ‘joe six pack’ and in order to get that, he needs to change his persona to more of a ‘regular guy’. I wish him well.