Melanie Marano

July 17, 2007 - 3:31pm

Marano to confront freeholders

Somerset County Freeholder candidate Melonie Marano is tying the incumbent freeholders to the county’s scandal-plagued parks department.

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July 17, 2007 - 12:15pm

Dems may have an issue in GOP Somerset

Corruption has never really been an election issue in genteel Somerset County, where Democrats haven’t won a countywide race since Michael Ceponis won a Freeholder race 28 years ago.  But now, allegations of mismanagement and wasteful spending by the GOP-controlled Somerset County Park Commission – which led to a subpoena from the state Attorney General’s office – could give Democrat Melanie Marano a great campaign issue in a low turnout year.  Marano, a Green Brook Township Committeewoman, faces Green Brook Mayor Patricia Walsh for the Freeholder seat being vacated by Denise Coyle, who is running for the State Assembly.

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