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Tom Kean Jr. Keeps Us Sick

Let’s Talk About Healthcare in NJ7 Malinowski vs. Kean, Jr As a health insurance broker in NJ, I am well aware of the issues faced by my clients in terms of affordability of health insurance as well as out of pocket costs given high deductibles, coinsurance and Rx costs. Now in the midst of a world- wide pandemic, the availability of health insurance is more important than ever. Congressman Malinowski has worked with the House majority to support initiatives to help all Americans. His YES votes include:

NJ State Senator Mike Doherty (R) says that systemic racism does not exist

Trump is Encouraging Voter Suppression

The Apple Fell Far from the Tree

Let’s face it; courage and conviction are on the ballot this November. And in these difficult times, we need lawmakers to rise to the occasion and stand up for their constituents. Only disappointment can describe Tom Kean’s silence on the important issues facing New Jersey and this nation. It has become painfully clear that the State Senator is NOT his father. Nor is he a moderate. Although Kean is hoping to ride on his father’s bipartisan coattails, to a seat in Congress representing the seventh district, his evasiveness in the face of a rogue president dismantling our democracy speaks volumes.

All Politics is Local When the Candidate Supports White Supremacists

Tom Kean Jr. has been in office for 19 years and is the son of a revered New Jersey governor, which means he’s effectively lived his entire life in politics. So how’d he not know he was fundraising for a white supremacist town council candidate in #Garwood? (links below) Answer: incompetence, it’s who he expects his supports to be, or both. Kean’s name is on the fundraiser invitation, which is sponsored by the Union County GOP, and posed with the candidate while he wore a Trump 2020 hat. In public social media posts this candidate posted: “Some of us aren’t okay with teaching kids homosexual history,” “It’s okay to be white,” and mocked George Floyd’s death. The town council candidate’s name is Jesse Wilson but used the name ‘Jerome Biggums’ on Facebook.

The No-Plan Man

Tom Kean Jr. cannot be trusted to protect our State and Nation’s gun laws. His inconsistent voting record and lack of leadership with regards to sensible gun legislation are consistent with current Republican leadership which continues to fail to protect our citizens from the gun violence epidemic.

Just Another Milquetoast!

The Republican’s plan for NJ07 in November is to try to convince the electorate to let go of the substance that is Tom Malinowski for the shadow that is Tom Kean, Jr. As usual, they want JAM on it. What’s JAM? Just Another Milquetoast, another in the line of NJ07 Representatives that go back through Leonard Lance to Mike Ferguson.

Black Lives Matters Somerville Protest - by Donna Gioia Volpe

Photographer Donna Gioia Volpe has been attending and documenting the weekly Black Lives Matter protests in her town of Somerville throughout the month of June, as young activists take to the streets and demand change. Attendees gather at the old Somerset County Courthouse, march up Main Street, around Town Hall, and then back to the Courthouse to hear speakers and others inform and educate the crowd. This is what democracy looks like.

All Politics is Local

I submitted a Letter to the Editor, originally published on 6/30, that included the following statement made by me: “Tom Kean (State Senator running for Congress in our district) is always polite and pleasant to me, and I’ve often heard the refrain “but he’s so nice” echoed by friends. Yet, his recent voting record shows he’s a homophobe who would strip us of our rights tomorrow.”

Tom Kean's Values

Tom Kean Jr. likes to talk about "values," about bringing New Jersey "values" to Washington. It's astonishing, therefore, that he continues to sit by silently while not only New Jersey values but American values are under assault. Is it an American value to encourage a dictator to build concentration camps for an ethnic minority? Is it an American value to beg an authoritarian leader to interfere in our elections? Is it an American value to tear gas and physically abuse peaceful protesters just