1. Steven Mark Lonegan was born on April 27,1956 and is an American businessman and politician who served as mayor of Bogota, New Jersey, from 1996 to 2007.
35 Facts About Steve Lonegan
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Steve Lonegan was the Republican Party's nominee in the 2013 Special Senate election in New Jersey, which he lost to Cory Booker.
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Steve Lonegan served as a national spokesman for the campaign and appeared on various news outlets such as Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, and MSNBC.
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Steve Lonegan was Director of Monetary Policy for the American Principles Project.
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Steve Lonegan served as the organization's national spokesman on monetary policies of the Federal Reserve System and directed the Fix the Dollar project until January 2016.
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Steve Lonegan lectured across the country to a range of audiences on the history of money and current monetary policy conditions.
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On February 27,2015, Steve Lonegan led a team of economists and conservative think tank leaders into a meeting with Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and Federal Reserve officials at the Washington, DC, headquarters of the Federal Reserve System.
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Previously, Steve Lonegan served as the State Director of the New Jersey chapter of Americans for Prosperity and was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of New Jersey in 2005 and 2009.
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Steve Lonegan was the unsuccessful nominee in the October 2013 special election to fill New Jersey's open US Senate seat following the death of Frank Lautenberg.
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Steve Lonegan was born at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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Steve Lonegan graduated from Ridgefield Park High School, where he was a football lineman for the Ridgefield Park Scarlets.
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Steve Lonegan went on to play four years at William Paterson University.
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Steve Lonegan was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at the age of 14, and is legally blind.
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Steve Lonegan has owned a custom home building business and a cabinet-making business.
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Steve Lonegan served as the state national and finance vice president for the National Federation of Independent Business.
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In 1995, Steve Lonegan was elected Mayor of Bogota, New Jersey, defeating incumbent Democrat Leonard Nicolosi.
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Steve Lonegan was reelected in 1999 and 2003 by double-digit margins.
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Steve Lonegan ordered the municipality to hire civilian dispatchers to answer telephones at police headquarters at lower pay than uniformed officers, angering the local police union; successfully fought the implementation of LOSAP, which extended pension payments to volunteer fire and rescue personnel; and required that local union contracts exceeding inflation be put to voters for approval.
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Steve Lonegan did not seek reelection in 2007, stating a belief in term limits.
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In 1997, Steve Lonegan became the Republican nominee for New Jersey State Senator against Democratic incumbent Byron Baer, a 26-year veteran of the state legislature.
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In 2006, Steve Lonegan filed papers for a public referendum in Bogota on making English the official language for the municipality.
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On January 19,2008, Steve Lonegan was arrested by New Jersey State Police troopers for trespassing at a town hall meeting scheduled by Governor Jon Corzine at a high school in Middle Township, New Jersey.
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Steve Lonegan was standing on the school's lawn protesting when police and school officials asked him to move to a designated protest area and remove a sign he was holding.
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From 2007 to 2013, Steve Lonegan served as the New Jersey State Director and Senior Policy Analyst for Americans for Prosperity, a conservative public policy organization.
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On December 1,2008, Steve Lonegan announced that he would run for the Republican nomination for Governor of New Jersey, his second run for the seat.
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Steve Lonegan sought to run as a conservative alternative to the more liberal candidate, former US Prosecutor Chris Christie.
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In June 2013, Steve Lonegan announced that he would run to fill New Jersey's open US Senate seat following the death of Senator Frank Lautenberg.
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Steve Lonegan easily won the Republican primary in August 2013, making him the Republican Party's nominee in the October 2013 special election Steve Lonegan was defeated in the election by Democrat Cory Booker.
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Steve Lonegan announced in October 2013 that he would run in the November 2014 election to represent in the United States House of Representatives.
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In 2017, Steve Lonegan announced his candidacy for the 2018 elections in against Democratic incumbent Josh Gottheimer.
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Steve Lonegan ultimately lost to former Cresskill Borough Councilman John McCann in the Republican primary.
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On December 10,2015, Steve Lonegan announced his endorsement of Ted Cruz for the Republican nomination for president in 2016 and became Chairman of Cruz's campaign in New Jersey.
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Steve Lonegan became Cruz's first major endorsement in New Jersey at a time when New Jersey's own Governor, Chris Christie, was a candidate.
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Steve Lonegan assembled a total of 121 endorsements for Cruz, including Cruz county chairs in all 21 counties.
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On May 3,2016, Steve Lonegan described Republican frontrunner Donald Trump as "Hillary Clinton with a penis".