Whitmans Can't Win Every Close One

The CHIMP.net sadly reports that Kate Whitman (Deerfield '95, Wesleyan '99) narrowly lost an election for Freeholder for Sommerset County, New Jersey on Thursday, March 29. Kate, a three year girl at DA, and her brother Taylor (Deerfield '97) come from strong NJ genes - as children of national moderate republican icon Christine Whitman (Wheaton '68, Gov of New Jersey '94-'01, EPA Administrator '01 - '03).

We're blaming it all on her campaign manager - despite him being a former Governor of New Jersey. The early election serves as the Republicans' tidy "primary before the primary", to prevent internecine squabbling and bleeding to ensure only one candidate enters the general election. We now await the next Deerfield Candidacy, Sherlock Grigsby (Deerfield '94, MTV Spring Break Hard Body award '95, Yale '98, Enterprise, MS 'current).