State Sen. Tom Kean Jr. has the best name in New Jersey politics, thanks to his father, a famously independent thinker who inspired trust across the partisan divide, a Republican who won 62 percent of the Black vote when he was elected to a second term as governor in a 1985 landslide.
So why is Kean Jr. squandering that legacy? Why is he lining up with the most reactionary wing of the Republican Party?