November 9, 2008 - 2:45pm
Inside Edge

The short list to challenge Lance in two years

U.S. Rep.-elect Leonard Lance will be tough to beat in 2010 after besting Democrat Linda Stender by nine percentage points

Democrats don't think it will be easy to  unseat soon-to-be freshman Leonard Lance from the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010.  Lance scored a 51%-42% victory over Linda Stender, who had been running for three years and had huge financial support from national Democrats.  The district has been Republican since Florence Dwyer ousted Harrison Williams in 1956.  

Possible candidates to challenge Lance in two years: State Sen. Joseph Vitale, the former Acting Mayor of Woodbridge and the Chairman of the Senate Health Committee; Assemblyman Joseph Cryan, the Democratic State Chairman; Edison Mayor Jun Choi; Union County Freeholder Alexander Mirabella; and Summit Mayor Jordan Glatt.

Wally Edge can be reached via email at politicsnj@aol.com.