It’s 10pm Do You Know Where Your Congressman Is?
New Jersey's 7th District doesn't.
Tom Kean Jr., Republican Congressman for New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District, has not been seen in public since mid-March. No votes. No town halls. No answers. When his chief of staff finally broke the silence, the best he could offer was: “There’s no cameras where Tom is.”
That is not a statement. That is a cover-up dressed up as a non-answer.
Now Kean is making two-minute phone calls to Republican county chairs. He told the New Jersey Globe he expects to “return to voting in the next couple of weeks.” Still no explanation. His spokesman promises he’ll eventually be “fully transparent.” Eventually.
Conveniently, though he’s been completely MIA, Kean has STILL managed to continue his insider trading, which comes as a perk for every member of Congress.
Republican John Farmer Jr. told the NYT plainly: “He’s a public figure running for re-election. It’s not a crazy thing to wonder what’s going on.”
It’s not crazy. It’s democracy. And in a democracy, your elected representative doesn’t just vanish for three months and ask you to trust that everything is fine.
Tom Kean is asking people to re-elect him while refusing to tell them if he’s capable of serving. The voters of NJ-07 deserve better than a promise that answers are coming eventually.
Show up, Congressman. Or step aside.
How about not paying him while he's away?
I live in Kean's congressional district. He was a do-nothing but used his last name to get elected in New Jersey. He was useless as a state congressman, useless as a state senator, and totally useless in the house. He beat Tom Malinowski because Musk gave $90,000,000 to his campaign. He will be totally rejected by our district in November and beaten badly by Rebecca Bennett, who I believe will beat the other people running for the spot in the coming June primary. He kissed Trump's ass and he doesn't even like him, from what I've heard.