NJ-07: Liberal super PAC makes Kean's absence a campaign issue
Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-Westfield)’s lengthy medical absence from Congress, long a subject of conversation and speculation in his 7th congressional district, has now officially become an issue in his re-election campaign.
Your Community PAC, a somewhat shadowy super PAC funded by a variety of Democratic dark money groups, began a $289,000 digital ad buy this week that minces few words about Kean’s largely unexplained disappearance from public life. “Tom Kean Jr.: Wherever you are, do your job or get the hell out,” the ad’s narrator intones.
The ad echoes similar messaging being put out by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which began its own far smaller ad investment last week. Both ads focus in part on reports that Kean has continued to trade stocks during his absence; Kean’s office told NOTUS in April that the congressman has a “blind structure with his personal investments.”
Kean last cast a vote in the House on March 5, and what began as a footnote in Kean’s career – his office said shortly after he began missing votes that he was dealing with a “personal health matter” and would be back “soon” – has since exploded into a national news story. Kean has insisted he’ll be fine and will seek re-election, but has provided almost no information on what has been ailing him.
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