Jennnifer Beck

July 23, 2008 - 8:25pm

With his caucus in fighting shape, Kean sees GOP poised for more wins

Senate Minority Leader Ton Kean, Jr. (R-Union), and Sen. Leonard Lance (R-Hunterdon).: Politicker photoSenate Minority Leader Ton Kean, Jr. (R-Union), and Sen. Leonard Lance (R-Hunterdon).: Politicker photo

State Sen. Thomas Kean, Jr., (R-Union) became minority leader just as a new band of hungry Republican legislators came up from the General Assembly to assume their Senate seats.

Another under 40 senator with statewide aspirations might send out at least back channel messages of panic in the face of a baseball roster's worth of new GOP talent.

And indeed there have been some nose-to-nose moments in the last few months since Kean made caucus boss, notably between the patrician leader and the headstrong state Sen. Kevin O'Toole (R-Essex).

But according to his colleagues, the stoic Kean has generally met the onrush by embracing it; and has assumed a statesmanlike stance while tapping the scrappy skills honed by his freshmen senators in the lower house.

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July 14, 2007 - 12:20pm
PRESS RELEASE

ASSELTA: VAN DREW DELIBERATELY MISLEADS. AGAIN.

(VINELAND, July 14) –- First District Senator Nick Asselta -– responding to continued misleading statements by Democratic Assemblyman Jeff Van Drew denying his vote in support of giving the Governor a blank check to prepare for the sale of the Garden State Parkway and the Atlantic City Expressway -– today again called on Van Drew to come clean.

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