Open Congress : News Articles for Rep. Scott Garrett [R, NJ-5]

Pascrell, Rothman disagree on few issues

2012-06-03T09:23:01Z

Pascrell, D-Paterson, denounced Rothman for choosing to run against him instead of against conservative Rep. Scott Garrett, R-Wantage. Rothman moved after his hometown was put in Garrett’s district by a state commission late last year.

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NJ Primary Pits Democratic Presidents Against Each Other

2012-06-03T01:00:00Z

...according to the Post. They now face each other because New Jersey is losing one of its 13 House seats and a redrawn congressional map split up Rothman’s turf between Pascrell’s district and an area represented by Republican Rep. Scott Garrett....

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Battling it out for the 9th district

2012-06-02T23:57:31Z

The redistricting originally pitted Rothman, who lived in Fair Lawn, against Republican Rep. Scott Garrett (R-Wantage) in the 5th District. But Rothman moved to Englewood, choosing to run in the 9th against fellow Democrat Pascrell, much to the national ..

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Scott Garrett's Republican challengers attack his record in radio debate

2012-06-02T20:15:36Z

U.S. Rep. Scott Garrett's Republican challengers for U.S. Congress accused him of using "dirty money" and failing to uphold the Constitution at a radio debate last week. "The people just do not understand how far to the right Garrett is ...

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Steve Rothman Meets With Obama, But POTUS Doesn't Endorse Him

2012-06-01T16:20:34Z

As HuffPost's John Celock previously reported, the Rothman-Pascrell battle came about when New Jersey lost one congressional seat and the state's redistricting commission placed Rothman's hometown in the district of Rep. Scott Garrett (R).

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Pascrell in the 9th

2012-06-01T01:00:00Z

...the new 9th. But many people, including Fair Lawn resident Rothman, fell into the new 5th, also home to Republican Rep. Scott Garrett of Wantage. Rothman was faced with a choice of either running in the 5th, a district slightly favoring a Republican, or

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Bill Clinton rallies support for Pascrell in Paterson visit

2012-06-01T01:00:00Z

...Rothman, Pascrell took a shot at his opponent’s decision to run in the 9th District primary rather than take on GOP incumbent Scott Garrett in the redrawn 5th Congressional District. “My opponent thinks this is a race about him and not about you, an

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Steve Rothman Meets With Obama, But POTUS Doesn't Endorse Him

2012-06-01T01:00:00Z

...lost one congressional seat and the state's redistricting commission placed Rothman's hometown in the district of Rep. Scott Garrett (R). Rather than face Garrett, Rothman chose to move his residence and face colleague Pascrell in a new, more Democratic

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Competing New Jersey reps look to Obama, Clinton

2012-06-01T01:00:00Z

...lost one House seat due to population changes. The new map merged districts now represented by Rothman and Republican Rep. Scott Garrett. Democrats hoped Rothman would take on Garrett in the expanded 5th District. But the new district favored Garrett, c

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Rep. Steve Rothman not afraid to do the unexpected

2012-06-01T01:00:00Z

...his hometown of Fair Lawn in the Republican-leaning 5th District. New Jersey’s political elite and some Washington leaders were expecting a high-profile and expensive liberal-versus-conservative battle between Rothman and Rep. Scott Garrett, R-Wantage

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President Obama appears with Rep. Steve Rothman ahead of close New Jersey congressional primary

2012-06-01T01:00:00Z

...bill for that work.” Pascrell is clearly miffed by his former friend’s decision to run against him instead of challenging Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J.), a tea party-backed lawmaker whose district swallowed up a good portion of Rothman’s former terri

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Herald News: Garrett is primary pick

2012-05-31T01:34:08Z

WE HAD hoped, in the newly redrawn 5th Congressional District, that a more mainstream Republican might have emerged to challenge Rep. Scott Garrett, R-Wantage, who has been far and away the most conservative member of New Jersey's Washington delegation ...

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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Congressional candidate, offers to mediate dispute between opponents Rothman and Pascrell

2012-05-31T01:00:00Z

...and Rothman angered some in his party when he opted to run against Pascrell rather than challenge Republican Rep. Scott Garrett after Rothman's hometown of Fair Lawn was placed in Garrett's district. "These guys just a few months ago were friends, colle

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Castle in the 5th

2012-05-31T01:00:00Z

...put Rothman’s then-hometown of Fair Lawn in the "new 5th," many political observers assumed Rothman would take on Rep. Scott Garrett, R-Wantage, in a philosophical battle between veteran lawmakers on opposite sides of the nation’s ideological divide

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Fannie, Freddie easy prey for cash-hungry Congress

2012-05-30T13:23:59Z

"As long as the GSEs exist in any framework or under any name, it will still smell as sweet as a rose to use them as a funding source to pay for something else," said Representative Scott Garrett, a Republican who chairs the House panel that ...

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Bill Pascrell, Steve Rothman Battle In Member-On-Member Congressional Primary

2012-05-29T17:07:05Z

The race unfolded after New Jersey after the Garden State lost one seat and its congressional redistricting commission placed Rothman's hometown -- Fair Lawn -- into a competitive district with Rep. Scott Garrett (R). Instead of challenging ...

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Bill Clinton coming to North Jersey to stump for Pascrell

2012-05-29T15:26:52Z

Rothman decided to run for the seat instead of challenging Republican Rep. Scott Garrett in the 5th District. Whoever wins June 5 is almost sure to be elected in November to represent the solidly Democratic district, which includes parts of Bergen ...

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Candidates: U.S. Congress Republicans District 5

2012-05-29T08:24:31Z

Bonnie Somer and Michael Cino, Bergen County Republicans, know they have a near-impossible task ahead of them as they attempt to unseat Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Scott Garrett in the June 5 primary. Garrett is a five-term incumbent in a GOP-leaning ..

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Bill Clinton coming to NJ to stump for Pascrell

2012-05-29T01:00:00Z

...reflected in the most recent U.S. census. Rothman decided to run for the seat instead of challenging Republican Rep. Scott Garrett in the 5th District. Whoever wins June 5 is almost sure to be elected in November to represent the solidly Democratic dist

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Bill Clinton to Stump for NJ Incumbent Locked in Battle With Fellow Democrat

2012-05-29T01:00:00Z

...territory pre-redistricting. Had he chosen to stay there he would have had to run against conservative Republican incumbent Scott Garrett whose 5th district was re-drawn with Fair Lawn in it. Rothman opted to move back to Englewood, where he served as m

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