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[h=1]Ex-Bogota mayor Steve Lonegan to head up Cruz presidential campaign in N.J.[/h]
Former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan, a conservative activist who ran unsuccessfully for governor, House and Senate, will be New Jersey chairman of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign.
In a news release, Cruz called Lonegan “a tireless advocate for taxpayers” and said he knows New Jersey politics.
Lonegan, a former state director for Americans for Prosperity, said his duties include raising money and putting together a slate of delegates who would run in the 2016 primary pledged to Cruz. He praised Cruz’s unsuccessful effort to force a repeal of the health insurance law commonly called Obamacare through a partial shutdown of the federal government in October 2013, even though Lonegan believes the shutdown hurt Lonegan’s campaign against Democrat Cory Booker in a special election for U.S. Senate that month.
“I’m probably the biggest fatality of that shutdown,” Lonegan said. “I’m not going to say that if it was not for the shutdown, I would have beaten Booker, but at a minimum I would have done much better.”
Nevertheless, he said it was “imperative to have a president who fully understands the Constitution and will fight hard for it even when it may not be the most popular thing.”
http://www.northjersey.com/news/ex-...p-cruz-presidential-campaign-in-n-j-1.1351729
