The biggest Republican names are begging off of an unexpected—and very winnable for the G.O.P.—Congressional race in New Jersey. Republican Michael Ferguson, a 37-year-old fourth termer, announced yesterday that he won’t seek re-election to his 7th District seat next year, and already former Congressman Bob Franks (who held the seat from 1992-2000), state Senator Tom Read More
Two high-profile retirements today — one in sports, one in politics — have put wannabe successors in exceedingly tough spots.
At the University of Michigan, coach Lloyd Carr’s retirement should open the door for LSU’s Les Miles, who played and served as an assistant at Michigan. But Miles is in the thick of the national Read More
The dismissive view of Capitol Hill in the bossist culture of New Jersey politics was best articulated by John V. Kenny, one of several Jersey City mayors to have been involuntarily retired to a federal penitentiary: “How many jobs does a congressman have?”
And yet almost by accident, New Jersey may host three of the Read More
Mike Ferguson, a conservative Republican who was re-elected to his suburban New Jersey seat by less than two percent of the vote last year, just announced that he would vote against the resolution condemning the escalation of the war.
The youthful and ambitious pol, who engaged in some rather embarrassing district-shopping before winning his Read More
