Republican governor candidate Doug Steinhardt bypassed campaign laws
Trenton Bureau A leading Republican candidate for governor, well-connected lawyer and longtime power player in Warren County politics, Doug Steinhardt, and people close to him have bypassed state pay-to-play laws while winning more than $10 million in government contracts in the past decade. The small group of donors, which includes Steinhardt's replacement as chairman of the state Republican Party, contributed more than half of the $250,000 total raised by the independent group Leadership PAC for Better Government since it formed in 2011, according to an analysis of campaign finance reco...