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6th ward Councilman was shamelessly the lone no vote on the all Democrat City Council's laudatory resolution honoring long serving Republican Frank Janusz.

The One Question That Begged to be Asked But Wasn’t Still Deserves to be Answered

“It’s unfair for towns in the watershed areas to shoulder the burden so people in Newark and Paterson and elsewhere can have clean water. Businesses outside our area profit from the cheap water we provide them at expense to our taxpayers.” 

“The prudent thing to do would be to delay some of the spending. I am sure that it is not critical to the operation of the county to spend $84 million between May and July,” said Calabrese. “Yet, the freeholder keep piling up the debt and saddling taxpayers with a huge debt fee.”

Andrews Continues Long-Standing Record of Enabling the GOP

Larry Pepper was 31-years-old in 1975 when he was elected Cumberland County GOP Chairman, and now one of the senior Republican leaders in the state is expected to step down when his term expires in June. His likely replacement, South Jersey GOP leaders say, is Douglas Sorantino, a former Freeholder. During his 33 years in office, Republicans have only controlled county government in Cumberland once, and while they regained a congressional seat in 1994, the Cumberland GOP is now without any representation in the New Jersey Legislature for the first time since a decade before Pepper’s initial election.

Former Assembly Majority Leader Paul DiGaetano has decided to challenge incumbent Tom Wilson for Republican State Chairman in June. DiGaetano, an Essex County Republican who spent sixteen years in the Assembly before running for Governor two years ago, is expected to formally enter the race in the next few weeks. Peter Mancuso, the former GOP State Finance Chairman and an ex-Mayor of Morris Township, is already in the race against the embattled Wilson.