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Dick Zimmer
(New Jersey politician)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Alan "Dick" Zimmer (born August 16, 1944) is an
American
Republican Party
politician
from
New Jersey
, who served in both houses of the
New Jersey Legislature
and in the
United States House of Representatives
. He was the Republican nominee for the
U.S. Senate
from New Jersey in
1996
and
2008
. In March 2010, he was appointed by Governor
Chris Christie
to head the New Jersey Privatization Task Force.
Early life and career
Zimmer was born on August 16, 1944 in
Newark, New Jersey
to William and Evelyn Zimmer, the second of two children. In his early years he was raised in
Hillside, New Jersey
.
His father, a physician, died of a heart attack when he was 3 years old. After his father's death, his mother moved from Hillside to
Bloomfield, New Jersey
, where she supported the family by working as a clerk at the
Sunshine Biscuits
warehouse
.
They lived in a Bloomfield garden apartment, which Zimmer has referred to as "the New Jersey equivalent of a log cabin."
When Zimmer was 12 years old, his mother married Howard Rubin, a
Korean War
veteran with three children of his own. The newly combined family moved to
Glen Ridge, New Jersey
, and Rubin worked at the post office there. Zimmer attended
Glen Ridge High School
, where he was selected as the class speaker for his graduation ceremony. His mother, suffering from lymphoma, required paramedics to take her from
Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
to the school auditorium on a stretcher to hear the address. She died several days later. Zimmer attended
Yale University
on a full academic scholarship and majored in political science, graduating in 1966. In the summer of 1965, he worked in the
Washington, D.C.
office of Republican
U.S. Senator
Clifford P. Case
, after which time he became active in Republican politics. He attended
Yale Law School
, where he was an editor the
Yale Law Journal
. After receiving his
LL.B.
in 1969 he worked as an attorney in
New York
and
New Jersey
for several years, first for
Cravath, Swaine & Moore
and then for
Johnson & Johnson
.
[3]
From 1974 to 1977, he served as chairman of New Jersey
Common Cause
, a nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy group and think tank with the mission to make political institutions more open and accountable. As chairman he successfully lobbied for New Jersey's Sunshine Law, which made government meetings open to the public. He also championed
campaign finance reform
, working closely with
Thomas H. Kean
, then a member of the
New Jersey General Assembly
. Zimmer then served as treasurer for Kean's reelection campaign.
[3]
New Jersey Legislature
After moving to
Delaware Township
in
Hunterdon County, New Jersey
, he was elected to the General Assembly in 1981, serving until 1987. He was the prime Assembly sponsor of New Jersey’s first farmland preservation law, resulting in the permanent preservation of 1,222 farms in the state. Zimmer also sponsored the legislation creating the state’s
radon
detection and remediation program, which became a national model. He was chairman of the Assembly State Government Committee from 1986 to 1987. In 1987, following the death of State Senator
Walter E. Foran
, Zimmer won a special election to replace him in the
New Jersey Senate
. He was later elected to a full term.
[3]
In the Senate he served on the Revenue, Finance and Appropriations Committee.
[4]
U.S. House of Representatives
In 1990, Zimmer ran for the
United States House of Representatives
for the
12th District
, then encompassing parts of
Hunterdon
,
Mercer
,
Somerset
,
Morris
and
Warren
counties. The seat was open after
Jim Courter
decided not seek another term after unsuccessfully running for
Governor of New Jersey
the previous year. In the Republican primary, Zimmer defeated
Rodney Frelinghuysen
, the early favorite, and
Phil McConkey
, former
wide receiver
for the
New York Giants
.
[5]
In the general election he defeated Marguerite Chandler, a businesswoman from
Somerset County
, by a margin of 66 to 34 percent.
Zimmer served three terms in the House, winning reelection in 1992 and 1994. As a Congressman, Zimmer is best known
[
citation needed
]
for writing
Megan's Law
(U.S. Public Law 104-145), which requires notification when a convicted sex offender moves into a residential area. It was named after
Megan Kanka
, a New Jersey resident who was raped and murdered by convicted sex offender
Jesse Timmendequas
. He also introduced "no-frills" prison legislation, requiring the elimination of luxurious prison conditions.
As a member of the
Ways and Means Committee
, he sought the elimination of wasteful spending and undue taxation. He was ranked the most fiscally conservative member of the United States Congress three times by the
National Taxpayers Union
and was designated a Taxpayer Hero by
Citizens Against Government Waste
every year he was in office.
Zimmer was also a member of the
Committee on Science, Space and Technology
and the
Committee on Government Operations
. As a member of the
Environment Subcommittee
, he introduced environmental risk-assessment legislation later incorporated in the 1996 amendments to the
Clean Water Act
.
1996 U.S. Senate Campaign
In 1995, Zimmer lined up support to run in the following year's
United States Senate elections
, becoming the front-runner among Republicans seeking to face Democratic incumbent
Bill Bradley
. On August 16, 1995, Bradley announced that he would not seek reelection. Zimmer formally announced his candidacy on
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