Analysis: In South Jersey, it’s a Kennedy against a power broker favorite to challenge turncoat Rep. Van Drew
BRIGANTINE, N.J. — Amy Kennedy is an unlikely heir to a family dynasty that first set foot in Congress in 1947 and has won the White House, sent three men to the Senate and propelled several members into the House.Kennedy, 41, grew up in this Jersey Shore outpost in a family that was politically active only at the municipal level. She spent 10 years as a public school teacher.
“The Kennedys as outsiders,” Brigid Callahan Harrison said Wednesday, in an hour-long telephone interview, amazed at how much the race is pivoting on personality. “That is how they’re marketing this.”So, as voters check off their mail ballots in this pandemic-era July 7 primary election, the battle is coming down to two powerful, yet very different political machines: the Kennedys versus South Jersey power brokers.Neither Kennedy nor Harrison is really supposed to be running for this seat.
Harrison, after losing a local municipal race in the late 1990s, was hired as a political science professor at Montclair State University. She did commentary on local TV and wrote a regular column in some New Jersey papers, always engaged in policy without ever fully entering the arena herself.
What has ensued is an increasingly bitter, personal campaign that is befitting of this state’s bare-knuckle traditions.
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