A past candidate returns to run for Senate in N.J.
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Ruben Jones has helped Mikal Bradley (left) and Jarren Taylor (right) get their lives back on track. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Mikal Bradley wasn't sure he could get a decent job with a criminal record. When he called his mom to tell her he had a job, he says she cried on the phone. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Jarren Taylor says these days he's trying to stay out of trouble. He says he likes his job at the Goodwill facility near 7th and Spring Garden streets. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Jarren Taylor used to run with a group that covered a few blocks in South Philadelphia before he went to prison for gun possession. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
A candidate who ran for the U.S. Senate twice more than 30 years ago is returning to New Jersey to challenge freshman Sen. Cory Booker in a race more prominent Republicans have avoided.
Jeffrey Bell tells The Star-Ledger of Newark he has rented a home in Leonia and intends to run against the well-funded Democrat who took office after a special election last year.
Bell won an upset victory in a Republican Senate primary in 1978 but was defeated by Bill Bradley in the general election.
Four years later, he ran in a second GOP primary but lost to Millicent Fenwick.
After that loss, he moved to Virginia.
The 70-year–old he says he’ll campaign on cutting the power of the Federal Reserve.
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