Overview
- Kean has not cast a roll-call vote since March 5, leaving him absent from the House for more than two months and missing every recorded floor vote since that date.
- Documents obtained by NOTUS show Kean electronically certified multiple personal stock trades with digital signatures dated between mid-April and May 17.
- Kean told The New Jersey Globe that he is out for a personal health matter, that doctors expect a full recovery, and that he plans to return to voting and the campaign trail soon.
- While absent he continued official office business, including signing forms approving staff travel, sending constituent newsletters, and appearing in expense records for Amtrak and rideshare trips in San Francisco.
- The disclosures have intensified ethics scrutiny because Kean never placed assets in the blind trust he had pledged, the activity falls under the STOCK Act framework, and his absence creates operational and political risk for his June 2 primary and the GOP’s slim House majority.