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New reporting from WNYC detailed the dire lengths cowardly Tom Kean Jr. has gone to to hide away his dangerous, MAGA positions from voters.
Tucked away in a fundraising email, Kean seeded the link to his MAGA agenda where he promises to “fight every step of the way to protect the unborn from egregious abortion laws” proposed in Congress.
This is hardly new for Tom Kean Jr., who has aligned his campaign with national efforts to strip women of their freedoms across the country.
No matter how hard he may try and hide, Kean’s extreme anti-abortion position is a clear danger to New Jersey women and their doctors.
Read more about Kean’s deception below and visit his hidden website here:
WNYC: Tale of 2 Tom Keans? Republican in NJ-7 congressional race shows right-wing side on hidden webpage
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The Tom Kean Jr. for Congress campaign website includes a hard-to-find, seemingly hidden-away page that outlines staunchly conservative positions on voting issues — in stark contrast to more moderate views the Congressional candidate promotes on the rest of the site.
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There’s no link to the page in the site’s navigation. The campaign for Democrat Tom Malinowski — fighting to hold onto the 7th Congressional District seat after flipping it blue in 2018 — says the website’s URL has been emailed directly to some voters, though Gothamist hasn’t seen those emails firsthand. A voter who received the email tipped off Malinowski, the Democrat’s campaign says.
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On TomKean.com, the campaign says Kean Jr. would end wasteful spending, promote American industry, support middle-class tax relief, and back energy independence — palatable positions for most voters.
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But add a slash and “kean-conservative” to the URL, and the platform takes a turn to the right.
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On that page, Kean Jr. says he wants to stop critical race theory in schools. He laments criminals and drugs coming across the border. And he takes a stand on abortion.
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“Tom is a fierce defender of the sanctity of life, fighting every step of the way to protect the unborn from egregious abortion laws proposed in New Jersey, and will continue to do so in Congress,” the hidden page says. The New Jersey Legislature affirmed the right to abortion earlier this year. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation that provides legal protections to people who travel from other states for abortions.
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Voters only have so much to go on beyond what they see on the site. So far, the only public event Kean Jr. has held was for donors — reporters were not allowed in. And he hasn’t responded to requests for an interview.
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The Malinowski campaign says its own analysis shows Kean Jr.’s hidden page has been up since the June primary, unchanged. The “Wayback Machine,” which shows the history of websites on Archive.org, only started recording snapshots of it in early September. That site’s archives of the Kean Jr. website overall don’t show any time the page was ever accessible through the site’s navigation.
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For Malinowski’s part, he’s been eager to portray Kean Jr. as a secret MAGA-style Republican who hides his true positions from moderate voters.
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At a recent campaign event, he talked about being in the U.S. Capitol during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Then he held up a photo of a Kean Jr. mailer.
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“And down here, it says, ‘No matter what Trump does, Kean has his back,’” Malinowski told the crowd, citing a line the ad quoted from a Star-Ledger editorial (which, in its original context, had criticized Kean Jr.). “Think about that. ‘No matter what?’”
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