Contest for Congress: New Jersey's 13th District

The 13th has been represented by Cuban-born Democrat Albio Sires since a special election in 2006. Before coming to Congress, he served as the speaker of the NJ Assembly. Sires has a liberal voting record, but like so many Hudson County Cuban Americans, he takes a hard line against Castro's Cuba.

Sires is challenged by Republican Henrietta Dwyer, a political newcomer who says she was motivated to run after Sires decided not to hold town hall meetings on the Democrats' controversial health care reforms. Dwyer decribes herself as fiscally conservative and socially modertate.

The district includes Hudson, Essex and Union counties and is roughly 50 percent Hispanic.

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