Patricia Walsh

Two Bergenfield Councilmen tossed off the organization line by Democratic Municipal Chairman Kevin Clancy easily won the Democratic primary.  With the help of State Sen. Loretta Weinberg, Thomas Lodato and Robert Gillman held their seats against Clancy's candidates, Fedra Lolos and Fernando Vargas.  Clancy was a close ally of former Bergen County Democratic Chairman Joseph Ferriero.

Middletown Township (Monmouth County, NJ): Middletown residents, along with Bayshore area residents, are entitled to substantial help from the Federal Government that is foisting what amounts to a new tax on them where it involves the re-issuance of Federal Emergency Management Agency flood maps, according to Middletown Democrats for Township Committee Jim Grenafege and Patricia Walsh.

Keansburg (Monmouth County, NJ): Democratic candidate for Middletown Township Committee Pat Walsh attended the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Open House on Friday, June 13, at the Bayshore Senior Center.

Middletown Township (Monmouth County, NJ): Today the Monmouth County Bayshore Young Democrats Chairman Matthew Morehead announced his organizations support for Patricia Walsh, on her decision to run for Monmouth County Freeholder during the November ’08 race.

Republicans held control of the Monmouth County Board of Freeholders, and will have a 3-2 majority next year.  GOP incumbent Robert Clifton was re-elected, but Democrats captured an open Republican seat with John D'Amico, a former Freeholder, State Senator and Superior Court Judge, defeating Republican Jeff Cantor by just 316 votes.

In Someret County, with Republican Patricia Walsh leads Democrat Melonie Marano.

Democrats picked up a Freeholder seat in Cumberland County, with Joseph Pepitone ousting incumbent Mary Gruccio.

In Burlington County, Republican Joseph Donnelly won an open Freeholder seat, defeating Democrat Tom Bader.

Democrats narrowly held two Freeholder seats in Passaic County. Incumbents Terry Duffy (29,980) and Pat Lepore (27,775) defeated Republicans Jerry Holt (24,318) and Joseph Stinziano (22,756).

Democrats held three Freeholder seats in Bergen County, but by a very narrow margin, according to The Record:

James M. Carroll* (D) -- 44,684
Tomas J. Padilla* (D) -- 44,179
Elizabeth Calabrese* (D) -- 45,155
Charles J.X. Kahwaty (R) -- 42,265
Robert B. Yudin (R) -- 42,932
Paul A. Duggan (R) -- 43,115

The Courier-News has endorsed Democrat Melonie Marano for Somerset County Freeholder. READ 

A Republican source says that a recent poll conducted by Somerset County Republican Chairman Dale Florio shows the race for Freeholder in a statistical dead heat, with Republican Patricia Walsh and Democrat Melonie Marano in a statistical dead heat, 32%-32%.

Somerset County hasn’t elected a Democratic Freeholder since 1979, but Democrats think that this year they just might be able to capitalize on Republican misfortune and pull it off.

This year, two women from the small town of Green Brook are battling it out to see whether the county’s five-member freeholder board will remain all Republican, or whether it will be joined by a lone Democratic voice for the first time since 1982, after Christie Whitman took the seat from Michael Ceponis. The Democrats have fielded Green Brook Committeewoman Melonie Marano, while Republican’s have tapped the town’s mayor, Patricia Walsh.

MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP (MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ): Democrat for 13th District Assembly Patricia A. Walsh is not satisfied that the proposed Pay To Play ordinance introduced by the Republican Majority on the Middletown Committee this week is far-reaching enough in her hometown.

The open slot on the Democratic Assembly slate in the thirteenth district was not intentional: Old Bridge resident Bob Brown had about 169 signatures on the wrong petition, leaving Patricia Walsh as the lone challenger to GOP incumbents Amy Handlin and Samuel Thompson.  Democrats are pledging a write-in campaign to nominate a second Assembly candidate -- and a Senate candidate against Minority Leader Leonard Lance in the 23rd district.

One indication that the Democrats don't intend to mount much of a challenge to five-term State Senator Joseph Kyrillos: their candidate is Leonard Inzerillo, who had a very public fight with party leaders last summer.