Bergen and Warren County Chairmen Join Estabrook Exploratory Committee

For immediate release: September 25, 2007

Contact: Tom Blakely; 609-514-7300 

Bergen and Warren County Chairmen Join Estabrook Exploratory Committee  

Princeton, NJ – Anne Evans Estabrook, businesswoman and former NJ Chamber of Commerce Chairman, today announced that Bergen County Chairman Rob Ortiz and Warren County Chairman Doug Steinhardt are joining her U.S. Senate Exploratory Committee.

Rob Ortiz and Doug Steinhardt join more than two dozen other Republican elected officials, business and community leaders that have joined the Exploratory Committee since it was created in July.  Previously county chairmen from Gloucester, Salem, Hunterdon, Monmouth, Camden and Union announced they would serve on Estabrook’s committee.

“I appreciate so much the fact that Rob Ortiz and Doug Steinhardt are joining my Exploratory Committee” said Estabrook. “The response I have gotten from so many leaders in the state has been overwhelmingly positive. I am concerned that New Jersey families are facing an affordability crisis, and Frank Lautenberg is making it worse by voting for higher federal taxes. And while our state and country face some critical issues, Congress is more interested in partisan political maneuvering than in dealing with those issues. That has to change, and I want to be that agent for change.”

Estabrook is the CEO and Principal of Elberon Development Co., a New Jersey real estate company. A respected leader in the state’s business community, Estabrook has served on corporate boards and as the first-ever woman Chairman of the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce. New Jersey Biz recently named her one of the top 50 women business leaders in the state.  Estabrook chaired the Lay Board of Trustees for the Delbarton School in Morristown for 5 years and served on the Board of Trustees at Cornell University for 10 years. She has also been an active member of her church and is a trustee of Catholic Charities in the Newark Archdiocese.

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