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Gloves Off in the Garden State
Ireland, Doug | August 23, 1999 issue

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The article focuses on the political development taking place in the U.S. Congress Senate, involving New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman. In the Front Office, as the term-limited GOP governor's executive suite is known, her staff is fretting that Whitman's ascension to the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Democrat Frank Lautenberg could be derailed by a high-decibel, right-wing radio shock-jock named Bob Grant. Because New Jersey is bereft of broadcast TV outlets of its own drive-time radio has played a hugely important role in the politics of the Garden State, where commuters avidly fuel their electoral road rage with daily doses of extremist rantings.

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UNITED States. Congress. Senate; WHITMAN, Christine Todd; GOVERNORS; LAUTENBERG, Frank; TELEVISION & politics; UNITED States
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