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Doherty seems ready to challenge Lautenberg
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| News Date | Thursday, April 26, 2007 02:30:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | As Republicans prepare their campaign to unseat Democrat Frank Lautenberg next year, their most likely candidate is Michael Doherty, a three-term Assemblyman from Warren County and one of New Jersey’s most conservative legislators.
Doherty says he’s interested in running, and his supporters regard the 43-year-old West Point graduate as a sharp, but blue collar alternative to the classic Republican mold of Clifford Case, Thomas Kean and Christine Todd Whitman.
Case was the last Republican to win a U.S. Senate seat in New Jersey – in 1972. Deeply admired by centrists in both major parties, but generally detested by cultural conservatives and hard-right Republicans, he was defeated for renomination in the 1978 Republican primary.
As a hard-boiled conservative, Doherty makes a case for being the anti-Case.
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