James Dowden

November 10, 2006 - 3:01pm

Dowden remains possible Senate candidate

James Dowden, a Democrat who spent twenty years as the popular Mayor of heavily-Republican Bridgewater, still shows interest in running for State Senator in the 1th district next year. Republicans are facing a possible primary between longtime incumbent Walter Kavanaugh and Assemblyman Christopher Bateman. Somerset County showed some signs of shifting toward the Democrats this week: U.S. Senator Robert Menendez won 48% of the vote in Somerset County and Democratic Freeholder candidates came within about 1,500 votes of winning. Dowden was the Mayor from 1973 until his retirement in 2003.

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July 14, 2006 - 1:26pm

Will Democrats play in Somerset County?

James Dowden, a Democrat who spent twenty years as the Mayor of Bridgewater, a Republican town of 42,900 people in Somerset County, has not ruled out a bid for the State Senate in the sixteenth district. Many Republicans expect the incumbent, Walter Kavanaugh, to retire after 32 years in the Legislature, and the conventional wisdom is that Assemblyman Christopher Bateman will emerge as the leading candidate for the Senate. Before his retirement, Dowden was the Vice President for Administration at Raritan Valley Community College, where Bateman's father, former Senate President and gubernatorial candidate Raymond Bateman, was the longtime Chairman.

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