Reply #17: Rothman has a Republican opponent [View All]

[Freddie Stubbs]

In northern New Jersey's 9th District, where there was no Republican on Tuesday's ballot, former Fair Lawn Mayor Edward Trawinski won a write-in campaign for the GOP nomination to face Democratic Rep. Steven Rothman in November.

Republicans in the Bergen County-dominated district had recruited another candidate to run this spring, but that person backed out and the April filing deadline passed before the party could field a replacement. Not wanting Rothman to go unchallenged, party leaders asked Trawinski to mount his write-in candidacy. Libertarian Party candidate David Daly of Fort Lee is also running against Rothman.

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