Holt’s Rush to Fairer Elections

• By Matthew Murray
• Roll Call Staff
• June 26, 2007, Midnight

Election Day shenanigans haunt Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.).
Holt’s father, Rush Dew Holt, a one-term Democratic Senator and career West Virginia state legislator, ran for governor in the Mountaineer State in 1952. Decades later, the controversy surrounding his father’s defeat is still fresh in the younger Holt’s mind.