From the ArcaMax Publishing, Weird News Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/weirdnews/s-558502-666002
PEAPACK-GLADSTONE, N.J. (UPI) -- The daughter of former New Jersey
Gov. Christie Whitman lost a third effort to start a political career
when she was defeated Tuesday in a local council race.
Kate Whitman, 32, came in third in a contest for two seats on the
Peapack-Gladstone borough council, The Star-Ledger of Newark reported.
Whitman, who is married but uses her well-known family name, lost a
Republican primary for Congress last year. She also made an effort to
become a candidate for Somerset County freeholder, failing to get
backing from a screening committee.
In Tuesday's race, technically the Republican primary in a town with
almost no Democrats, Whitman received 302 votes to 361 for Katherine
Howes and 357 for an incumbent, Michael Seboria.
Her mother, the last Republican to win a statewide race in New Jersey,
defeated Gov. Jim Florio in 1993 to become New Jersey's first and so
far only female governor and won a second term in 1997. She resigned a
year before the end of her second term to join the administration of
President George W. Bush.
Kate Whitman has said she is more conservative than her mother, who
has become a spokeswoman for the Republican Party's dwindling moderate
wing.