NJ-05: 'Socially moderate' Republican will challenge Josh Gottheimer
For much of this year, Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-Tenafly) has been running for re-election without a Republican challenger despite the fact that his district came only 6,000 votes away from supporting Donald Trump in last year’s presidential election – but no longer.
Sean Kirrane, a corporate consultant, budding artificial intelligence entrepreneur, and father of two from River Vale, will run as a Republican for the 5th congressional district, which spans from the suburbs of Bergen County to the Pennsylvania border. Politico NJ first reported on Kirrane’s candidacy earlier today.
“I don’t want to be one of these people who sits around and complains and watches TV and says, ‘I could do it better than those people on TV,’ but doesn’t actually do anything about it,” Kirrane told the New Jersey Globe.
Kirrane, who has never run for office before, defined himself as a “socially moderate, fiscally responsible” Republican, and said he wanted his campaign to focus on two things above all others: sweeping affordable housing legislation and the creation of a universal health care system. Both ideas sound at first like progressive proposals rather than conservative ones, but Kirrane said his idea is to let the free market drive both.
https://newjerseyglobe.com/congress/socially-moderate-republican-will-challenge-josh-gottheimer-in-nj-5/
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