Gerald Cardinale

GOVERNOR SHOULD REMOVE WALLACE FROM DRBA
Shredding Accusations Warrant Removal From Sweetheart State Job

Senator Gerald Cardinale, (R-39), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent the attached letter today calling on Governor Jon S. Corzine to immediately remove Dr. Warren Wallace from his post at the Delaware River and Bay Authority (DRBA) following his dismissal from his post at the (UMDNJ). Articles in the press have reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was forced to intercede at the Stratford Campus of UMDNJ because documents that may have been critical to an on-going investigation were being shredded in Dr. Wallace’s office. Dr. Wallace was appointed to the DRBA by former Governor McGreevey in 2003.

Democrat Desperation Drives Horizon Surplus Grab
Surplus Properly Belongs to the Policyholders

Pilot Program Would Allow For Informed Decision
Senator Gerald Cardinale, R-39, today said facts, not assumptions, should determine whether self-service gas is sold in New Jersey. New Jersey is one of two states that prohibits motorists from filling their own tank. Last week, Governor Corzine proposed a pilot program allowing drivers to pump their own gas.
“Rarely are you right and 95 percent of the rest of world wrong,� Cardinale said. “When forty-eight states allow self-serve and two don’t, the two states have the burden of proving their policy is correct. A self-service gas pilot program would serve as a controlled experiment that would test whether continuing the ban on self-serve gas is in the public’s best interest.�

CARDINALE: SELF SERVE GAS WILL LOWER PRICES
Lower Prices, Less Pollution, More Convenience will Result from Self Service

Senator Gerald Cardinale, (R-39), is drafting legislation which would authorize service stations to permit consumers to dispense motor fuel. Current law only allows authorized employees of motor fuels retailers to dispense gasoline or diesel fuel.

Cardinale Dissatisfied By Chen Selection
New Public Advocate has argued Against “Megan’s Law�

Senator Gerald Cardinale, (R-39), issued the following statement regarding the selection of Rutgers Law Professor Ronald Chen as Governor Jon Corzine’s Public Advocate.

CARDINALE STATEMENT ON FARBER NOMINATION

Senator Gerald A. Cardinale (R-Bergen) issued the following statement on the nomination of Zulima V. Farber to be Attorney General.

STUDY WILL LEAD TO BAN ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Bill Will Be Too Lenient To Cop Killers, Terrorists & Pedophiles

Senator Gerald Cardinale, (R-39), issued the following statement regarding Senate Bill 709 which would create a study commission and impose a moratorium upon capital punishment in the State of New Jersey.

If you are a New Jersey State Senator, you are more likely to die in office than to win higher elective office. Under the current State Constitution, 44 sitting State Senators have asked voters to promote them to a new office, but only nine have won.

Nearly half of the State Senators seeking higher office have run for Governor and all 21 have lost: Malcolm Forbes (1957), Wayne Dumont (1965), Raymond Bateman (1977) and James E. McGreevey (1997) won major party nominations but list the general election -- each time to an incumbent; William Schluter ran as an Independent in 2001; and Walter Jones (1961), Charles Sandman (1965), William Kelly (1969), Frank McDermott (1969), William Ozzard (1969), Harry Sears (1969), Ralph DeRose (1973), Raymond Garramone (1977), Frank Dodd (1981), William Hamilton (1981), Joseph Merlino (1981), James Wallwork (1981), Bill Gormley (1989) and Gerald Cardinale (1989).

Edward Crabiel gave up his Senate seat to run in 1973 but withdrew when some party leaders decided to back Brendan Byrne. In 2001, Donald DiFrancesco dropped his bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.

All five State Senators who have run for the United States Senate have lost: Frank Guarini, in 1970 Democratic primary against Harrison Williams; Dick LaRossa (1996), Bill Gormley (2000), Diane Allen (2002) and John Matheussen (2002).

Nine of the fourteen sitting State Senators who have run for Congress have won: John Hunt (1966), Edwin Forsythe (1970), Joseph Maraziti (1972), Matthew Rinaldo (1992), Bernard Dwyer (1980), James Saxton (1984), Frank Pallone (1988), Richard Zimmer (1990), and Robert Menendez (1992). Five have lost House bids: Richard Stout (1968), Joseph Kyrillos (1992), Gormley (1994), John Bennett (1996), and Cardinale (2002).

Three incumbent State Senators have unsuccessfully sought office in Bergen County: Matthew Feldman (1986) and Hank McNamara (2002) ran for County Executive, and Harold Hollenbeck (1973) ran for Freeholder. Three Senators have lost bids for Mayor of Newark: Alexander Matturi (1970), Anthony Imperiale (1974), and Ronald Rice (1998). Frank Graves was elected Mayor of Paterson in 1982, a post he had previously held from 1961 to 1966.

Thirteen Senators have died in office -- three more than the number who have won higher office: Raymond Bowkley, John Caufield, Robert Crane, Glenn Cunningham, John Dimon, Walter Foran, Garrett Hagedorn, William Haines, Joseph Hirkala, Christopher Jackman, Wynona Lipman, Edward Sisco and Howard Sharp.

Editor's Note: Gormley is counted once, although he has sought higher office three times; Cardinale, who ran twice, is also counted once. Senators who sought re-election to posts they had held prior to running for the Senate are not counted at all.

TRENTON ON THE HUDSON

Senator Gerald Cardinale, (R-39), the senior member of the Republican Senate Caucus issued the following statement regarding published reports that the senior Senator from the State of New York was vetting candidates to fill Governor-elect Jon Corzine’s unexpired United States Senate term.