Kean's Oppo Researcher (R) has sordid past

[Rose Siding]

A researcher working on Thomas H. Kean Jr.'s proposed film attacking U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez once sent out thousands of anonymous post cards and automated phone calls accusing a New Hampshire candidate's wife of being in an orgasm cult....

Lyon researched Willie Horton, the furloughed killer who became an issue in the 1988 presidential race between Michael Dukakis and George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton's background while Clinton was governor of Arkansas.

Lyon, known as an "opposition researcher," is definitely not the kind of campaign worker politicians brag about. Yet his work often drives strategy in a tight race such as the one between Republican Kean and Democrat Menendez.

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