Matthew Holt

November 22, 2007 - 2:46pm

Holt urges Lance to seek House seat

Hunterdon County Freeholder Matthew Holt says Leonard Lance should run for Congress, and that if the Senate Minority Leader ultimately declines to run, he would consider seeking the GOP nomination.

Holt is the grandson of former U.S. Sen. Clifford Case, who served as Congressman in the 7th district from 1945 to 1953 before moving to the Senate in 1955.

Lance has expressed interest in entering the seat that became available on Monday when Mike Ferguson announced he would not seek re-election.

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November 21, 2007 - 11:58am

Case's grandson "leaning toward running"

Clifford Case represented the 7th district from 1945 to 1953Clifford Case represented the 7th district from 1945 to 1953Born in Rahway in his grandfather's house when the 7th Congressional district included that tough prison town, Matt Holt remembers U.S. Sen. Clifford Case as a public servant who put the common good ahead of partisan politics.

Case's career included four terms in the House representing the 7th district and four terms in the Senate, and now 25 years after his death, grandson Holt is considering a run for Congress.

"The single biggest challenge is to return to the art of negotiation," says Holt, 49, a Hunterdon County freeholder from Clinton, who served as the town's mayor for two years.

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November 29, 2007 - 10:56am

Musical chairs

The retirements of Congressmen Jim Saxton and Mike Ferguson offers the potential for an interesting game of political musical chairs.

In District 3, if John Adler goes to Congress, look for Louis Greenwald to replace him in the State Senate.  That will open up a sixth district Assembly seat that Cherry Hill might claim, although that decision will be made by party leaders.  Most of the Cherry Hill Councilmembers are potential candidates, and one interesting replacement for Greenwald would be Councilwoman Shelley Adler, whose husband could be a Congressman.  This is a safe Democratic district, and legislators picked at a Special Election Convention would be virtual shoo-ins for the November 2009 elections.

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November 8, 2006 - 2:13pm

Ex-U.S. Senator's grandson wins in Hunterdon

One prominent New Jersey political family had some success at the ballot box this year: former Clinton Mayor Matthew Holt was easily elected to the Hunterdon County Board of Freeholders. Holt is the grandson of Clifford P. Case, who represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1955 to 1979. Case, who also served as a Rahway Councilman, Assemblyman and Congressman, is the last Republican to win a U.S. Senate seat from New Jersey.

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