Marcia Karrow

Senator Marcia Karrow (R-23), a member of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, noted that Governor Corzine has finally admitted that he can’t fund a new pre-school program for some parents and children at the expense of other taxpayers who are seeing their jobs disappear and their incomes plummet.

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State Sen. Marcia Karrow (R-Raritan) has raised twice as much as her GOP primary opponent, Assemblyman Michael Doherty (R-Oxford) in the race for State Senate in the 23rd district.  The two will face off on June 2 for the second time this year in a special election for the seat of Leonard Lance, who resigned in after his election to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Karrow has raised $99,136 and has $67,048 cash on hand.  Doherty has raised $49,318 and has $33,023 remaining in his war chest.

Three bills sponsored by Senator Marcia Karrow (R-Hunterdon/Warren) that appropriate over $83 million to preserve New Jersey farmland for recreation and conservation purposes were unanimously approved by the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee.

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Steve Lonegan, far right, with Ed Smith, center, and Assemblyman Michael Doherty (R-Washington Twp.) tonight in Flemington.

FLEMINGTON - You don’t have to look beyond a stuffed trophy on the wall at the Croton Rod and Gun Club to know they mean business here, as it’s not just the bear head but a torso, arms and paws jutting out of the paneling over the bar and baseball caps and one straw cowboy hat perched on a delighted audience member who claps again as gubernatorial candidate Steve Lonegan tears into another subject.

“In my first four years, two judges will retire and two will be up for confirmation,” says Lonegan, who promises he won’t reconfirm the two who presumably will try to remain on the Supreme Court bench. “I will be appointing the four most conservative judges New Jersey’s ever seen.”

“Yeah!”

The crowd of about 60 people at this scheduled Hunterdon County meet-and-greet applauds heartily.

The former mayor of Bogota running for governor as the hard-line conservative says as governor he would require each judge to go before the voters every six years. “We’ll keep them in check that way,” he says over the growing applause. 

Senator Says Governor's Action Too Little, Too late, and Calls on Attorney General to Recover Taxpayer Money That Was 'Lost in Space"

Projects Fully Funded by Loan Repayments from Previous Dam Projects

Legislation sponsored by Senator Marcia Karrow (R-Warren/Hunterdon) that would fund a pair of dam restoration projects was recently signed into law. Under the new law, $7 million would be appropriated from the Dam Restoration and Clean Water Trust Fund to restore the Lake Solitude Dam in High Bridge and the Point View Reservoir Dam in Passaic County.

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Assemblyman Michael Doherty (R-Oxford) has no intention of running for Governor as an Independent

Assemblyman Michael Doherty (R-Oxford), who is challenging incumbent Marcia Karrow in the 23rd district State Senate primary, says he has absolutely ruled out filing as an Independent candidate for Governor.  There had been some speculation among Republicans that Doherty might file petitions on primary day to enter the gubernatorial race in the event that he loses the Senate primary and his preferred candidate in the GOP primary, Steven Lonegan, loses to Christopher Christie.

"That's ridiculous. Why the heck would I do that?  I intend to support to Steve Lonegan when he's running for governor in the fall," Doherty told PolitickerNJ.com.  Doherty, a four-term Assemblyman, says he is a Republican and would not consider challenging a GOP nominee as an Independent.

State Sen. Marcia Karrow (R-Raritan Twp.)

TRENTON – After a sedate budget session with little discernable action and time running down, both sides suddenly opened up in a bitter back and forth sparked by state Sen. Marcia Karrow (R-Raritan).

Karrow trained tough questions on Department of Community Affairs Commissioner Joe Doria, wondering why city officials in Jersey City are getting raises and why a zoo in Cumberland County is slated to receive state dollars in tough times.

That prompted back-to-back regional objections from Democrats serving on the Senate Budget Committee.

“Bridgeton houses a lot of bad things, senator,” state Sen. Steve Sweeney (D-Bridgeton) told Karrow. “They have nothing. If you want to pick on them for having a zoo (the Cohanzick Zoo), please come to Bridgeton before you criticize Bridgeton. Come take a trip with me. I’ll take you on a trip. Cumberland County houses 26 percent of the state’s prison population. That’s our economy.” 

The six Republican members of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee said today's testimony shows Governor Corzine has created a breathtakingly irresponsible budget that will inevitably result in crippling tax increases on New Jersey's middle class if he wins re-election.

Calling a donor group that supports pro-choice Republican women a “radical pro-abortion group,” Assemblyman Michael Doherty (R-Washington Twp.) called on his primary opponent, state Sen. Marcia Karrow (R-Hunterdon), to return donations from the fund.

At issue is $3,000 Karrow received for her assembly primary bids in 2001 and 2005 from The WISH List, and a 2001 $2,200 donation from its founder, pro-choice Republican activist Candace Straight.

“According to its mission statement, ‘The WISH List raises funds to identify, support and elect pro-choice Republican women at all levels of government – local, state and national.’” Said Doherty in a press release, “I find it amazing that Marcia Karrow is trying to fool the
voters of the district regarding her pro-abortion views. On top of that, she has the audacity to take thousands of dollars of campaign contributions from this radical pro-abortion group.”