Holt’s Rush to Fairer Elections

By Matthew Murray
Roll Call Staff
June 26, 2007, 12 a.m.

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.



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