The Ridgewood blog Endorses Steve Lonegan for US Senate !
the following article captures all the reasons why ….
Editors Special Note : Mike Kelly did and excellent job on this piece , like Lonegan or not its fair , well written and the kind of journalism that Mike got his superior reputation from .
Steve Lonegan’s Passion fueled by challenges
Sunday October 13, 2013, 12:37 AM
By MIKE KELLY
RECORD COLUMNIST
Some people can point to a moment when their life changed and they embarked on a new path. For Steve Lonegan, the conservative Republican running for U.S. Senate in Wednesday’s special election, that moment arrived about two years after he graduated from college.
It was 1982. Lonegan was legally blind — a final diagnosis after years of deteriorating vision from retinitis pigmentosa, a hereditary eye condition he had been battling since he was 16.
He could not find a job, he said. His only income was a Social Security disability check. He felt like a failure — or, as he described his predicament recently, “trapped” in “the entitlement state.”
So, he said, he canceled his disability checks.
What may seem reckless and irresponsible to some was, to Lonegan, a sign of personal independence. It was also a sign of things to come.
Lonegan eventually jumped into politics and became a torchbearer for the anti-government Tea Party movement. And after being dismissed over the summer as a maverick conservative who never won elective office outside tiny Bogota, where he served three terms as mayor, he has emerged in recent days as a serious opponent to Cory Booker, the Democratic mayor of Newark. Booker’s 30-point lead in August has shrunk to around 12 points, according to several recent polls. (Kelly/The Record)
https://www.northjersey.com/columnists/kelly/Kelly_Steve_Lonegans_passion_fueled_by_challenges.html
Wow, I didn’t see this one coming.
Funny how the article describes a moderate who only jumped on the TP bandwagon only when he saw opportunity for self promotion.
I have family in Ridgefield Park who know him personally, have rubbed elbows at parties an benefits etc.
They’re voting for Booker. That should tell you something.
Well I’m from Bogota and although I didn’t live there when he was Mayor my parents did and they loved him. He cleaned up that town’s useless overspending in a hurry.
You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family.
And you can’t choose the morons who post on this site.
You can choose at least one, #4…and yet you’re still here