Murray Sabrin

Maverick Murray - The Favorite Of Gannett Founder, Frank Gannett

Murray Sabrin, who has anointed himself the “front runner” in the race for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination, issued a press release today announcing “Gannett endorses Sabrin for U.S. Senate.”  Sabrin doesn’t mean the Gannett that operates seven dailies in New Jersey – instead, he argues that the late Frank Gannett (1876-1957), who founded the newspaper chain, would have supported his candidacy.  Sabrin says there is a “striking similarity between Frank Gannett's political philosophy” and his campaign to Legalize Freedom.  Gannett sought the Republican nomination for President in 1940.

Maverick Murray “Outs” the Core of “La NJGOP Nostra”

The Republican Senate candidates will participate in their fourth tomorrow evening at Stockton College.

The 90-minute debate is sponsored by Stockton’s Hughes Center for Public Policy and The Press of Atlantic City, and will begin at 7:00 p.m. at the Townsend Residential Life Center on the college’s Galloway Township campus. It’s open to the public and free.

So far, this is the only Senate debate scheduled to be held in South Jersey.

Zimmer Acts Like A Zombie and Pennacchio Shows His Ignorance Of The Issues

There were no major gaffes, no hugely inappropriate comments, and no meltdowns in a rather tame debate of Republican U.S. Senate candidates on New Jersey Network last night. Dick Zimmer stressed his experience as a former Congressman, State Sen. Joseph Pennacchio cast himself as the conservative in the race, and Ramapo College Professor Murray Sabrin was the man with the golden zinger. Result: No clear winner, but a slight edge to Sabrin.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joseph Pennacchio will suspend his personal campaign activities for the next couple of days following the death of his mother-in-law, who passed away at 7:20 PM last night – just before the televised debate with rivals Dick Zimmer and Murray Sabrin.  Arrangement details are pending.

State Sen. Joseph Pennacchio (R-Morris) today. 

TRENTON - Sen. Joseph Pennacchio (R-Morris) sees a link between his Republican primary opponent Dick Zimmer and fallen Democrat Ellen Karcher.

In her state Senate fight last year, Karcher was bedeviled by a farmland assessment mini-scandal that her opponent Jennifer Beck highlighted in aggressive television advertising on her way to finally burying Karcher by a ten-point margin on Election Day.

Running behind Zimmer in their U.S. Senate primary contest, according to a Monmouth University poll and just ahead of economist Murray Sabrin, Pennacchio thinks he can sink the front-running former congressman with the same strategy.

"He’s got a Karcher problem," said Pennacchio, questioning Zimmer’s sincerity as a Washington-D.C. based lobbyist who claims a farmland assessment tax break.

Former Rep. Dick Zimmer appears to have the most cash of the Republican Senate candidates, although Murray Sabrin has raised the most money so far.

Since officially entering the race a little over a month ago, Zimmer has raised about $478,000 and has approximately $446,000 cash-on-hand, according to Campaign Manager Mark Duffy.

And although Zimmer doesn’t plan to self-fund the whole race, $300,000 of that total is from a personal loan.

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