Former NFL Lineman aims to oust freshman Democrat in New Jersey 3rd District
By Jonathan V. Last – March 8, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 24
Jon Runyan is no-nonsense. Just what you would expect of a former NFL offensive lineman. When he was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles in 2000, he didn’t take up the celebrity life…
Runyan and his wife, Loretta, have three children. They attend a local Quaker school where Loretta became friendly with another mother, Dawn Addiego, a Republican state assembly-woman. Last November, Addiego asked Loretta if she thought Runyan might be interested in running for Congress from Jersey’s 3rd District.
Loretta said she’d pass the idea on to her husband, which is how Jon Runyan, 36 and only recently retired from professional football, comes to be the GOP’s best chance for a congressional pickup in New Jersey.
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