Posted on 02/19/2018 3:09:26 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
Bret D. Schundler, the crusading conservative mayor of Jersey City, soundly defeated former Representative Bob Franks in the Republican primary for governor today, setting up a sharply drawn November contest with James E. McGreevey, the Democrat.
Mr. Schundler, an ardent opponent of abortion and a supporter of the rights of gun owners, who promised to lower taxes, cut government spending and take down the tollbooths on the Garden State Parkway, united both fiscal and social conservatives behind his campaign. His wide margin of victory, despite a Republican establishment united behind his opponent, gave the party's conservative wing the upper hand in the New Jersey Republican Party for the first time in 23 years.
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He’s history. Didn’t work in N.J. Who cares?
It is a remembrance of what could have been...
He had to be destroyed by the NJ RINO Establishment. Whitman-DiFrancesco made sure the creepy Sodomite Communist McGreevey took the race.
They wanted Franks in there to replace DiFrancesco.
I liked Franks, but he was used in 2001.
They wouldn’t endorse him or campaign for him just like the Establishment did with Tea Party challengers who won primaries.
Franks may have beaten McGreevey as well, we never know.
Good Man, would have been a great governor...
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