The NJ candidates for U.S. Senate could not be more different...
Repub candidate Steve Lonegan, a former Bogota (NJ) mayor, was the state director until March of a national organization that used money from energy billionaires to help fuel the Tea Party movement against Obama's policies.
Lonegan vowes to repeal the health insurance overhaul known as Obamacare and the Wall Street overhaul known as Dodd-Frank. He supports drilling for oil off the New Jersey coastline, scoffs at dire predictions of climate scientists, opposes gun control, same-sex marriage and most government spending, including relief for Superstorm Sandy.
Dem candidate Cory Booker, finishing his second term as mayor of Newark (NJ), traveled the country as surrogate speaker for the president in 2008 and 2012 and was co-chairman of the party's platform committee at last year's Democratic convention.
Booker wants to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act that says only a man and women can get married. He opposes natural gas-fracking and the Keystone Pipeline, supports a ban on assault weapons and raising the minimum wage to $10.10, and wants taxpayers to contribute $400 every year to college savings accounts for the children of the working poor.
-The Bergen Record, 08/14/13
"...the empty desks of 20 children marked absent today, and forever"
-Poet Richard Blanco at President Obama's Inauguration, 01/21/13
