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State Chapters => NY/NJ => Topic started by: Gefn on July 08, 2020, 08:28:10 pm

Title: Amy Kennedy wins NJ primary to face GOP's Van Drew
Post by: Gefn on July 08, 2020, 08:28:10 pm

Former teacher and mental health advocate Amy Kennedy won the Democratic primary in New Jersey on Tuesday, setting her up to go head-to-head against Democrat-turned-Republican Rep. Jefferson Van Drew in November.

Kennedy was leading with 54.7 percent of the vote after 30 percent of precincts had reported, prevailing over her closest rival, political science professor Brigid Callahan Harrison, who received 31.8 percent, according to The Associated Press.

Van Drew, previously a dentist, has emerged as a top target for Democrats after he left the party last year and opposed President Trump's impeachment.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/506281-amy-kennedy-prevails-in-nj-primary-to-face-gops-van-drew

Title: Re: Amy Kennedy wins NJ primary to face GOP's Van Drew
Post by: Gefn on July 08, 2020, 08:29:59 pm

Amy Kennedy is related to the Kennedy clan. She’s married to Patrick Kennedy.

Edit: this is the one congressional race to watch in November for NJ.

 :2popcorn:

Title: Re: Amy Kennedy wins NJ primary to face GOP's Van Drew
Post by: Hoodat on July 08, 2020, 09:02:23 pm

Quote from: Gefn on July 08, 2020, 08:29:59 pm

Amy Kennedy is related to the Kennedy clan. She’s married to Patrick Kennedy.

Patrick Kennedy's handwritten police statement regarding his accident in Portsmouth, RI where he entered the oncoming lane in order to cut ahead of another car waiting to turn left into a CVS pharmacy when he struck an oncoming car head on.  Despite his complete inability to write a legible sentence, the Congressman was not charged with DUI.

(https://thesmokinggun.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/750x970/documents/0505062kennedy6.gif)