Steve Oroho

Comptroller, Inspector General, and Medicaid Inspector General have Overlapping Responsibilities

Senator Steve Oroho (R-24), a member of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, stated today that the State Comptroller, State Inspector General and Medicaid Inspector General contribute to the overall bureaucratic maze and inefficiency in much of state government because their duties overlap.

$4 Million already wasted on $548 per hour lawyers THROUGH OCTOBER to jam through Corzine's toll hike and borrowing scheme - no need to waste more.

Senators Jennifer Beck (R-12) and Steve Oroho (R-24) criticized the Corzine Administration today for awarding a government contract to the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, to jam though his toll hike and borrowing scheme.

Governor Corzine Says He is Not Opposed to the Measure

Senator Steve Oroho (R-24) is a prime sponsor of legislation that would require the state budget be balanced with only recurring revenue rather than one time financial gimmicks and short term budget fixes.

Freshman state Sen. Steve Oroho of the 24th district announced he was ready to endorse Sen. John McCain for president.

"I believe McCain is a principled individual with strong character, who has a high probability of victory in a general election," said Oroho.

After researching all of the candidates, he said he came down to former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney and McCain, and yesterday opted for the latter.

Alison Littell McHose entered the State Assembly in 2003 with a strong political pedigree. Her grandfather served as Senate President, her father has spent forty years in the Legislature, and her mother was the Republican State Chair in the 1990’s.

But the 42-year-old Sussex County Republican has emerged in her own right as one of the most reliably conservative legislators in Trenton. She is consistently pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, anti-tax and spend, and opposes civil unions, and civil unions. She is an unabashed supporter of George W. Bush -- her husband, Morgan McHose, served on active military duty in Iraq -- and was Lynne Cheney’s aide at the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Chatter about a conservative primary challenge to Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen is nothing new. In late 2001, attorney Paul Castronovo, who had been Morris County Coordinator for Bret Schundler's gubernatorial campaign, publicly explored a race, but eventually backed down. So far, the only Frelinghuysen opponent to get any real attention was in 2000, when Michael Moore held a news conference in Morris County to announce that he was running a Ficus plant as a write-candidate in the GOP primary.

Assemblyman Guy Gregg, who lost Tuesday night in his State Senate bid, said he stayed away from this morning’s Sussex County GOP unity breakfast because the 24th legislative district includes three counties, and any appeal to unity should include tri-party representation.

Admittedly disappointed, angry and shocked, he also didn’t want to remount the stage and be forced to emote publicly so soon after a bitter loss.

"I gave my concession speech Tuesday and I didn’t feel compelled to give it again," said the 13-year Assemblyman from Morris County.

Republican State Senate nominee Steve Oroho welcomes GOP State Chairman Tom Wilson to Sussex County.

Defeated district 24 Senate candidate, Assemblyman Guy Gregg, was listed among the critically wounded Friday, unable to make reveille at the Sussex County Republican Party Unity Breakfast in the Lafayette House.

But there was his conqueror, Steve Oroho, serving coffee, making weight jokes and finally urging his party to put the campaign battle in perspective as he choked up while reading a letter from his kid brother, who’s a Black Hawk Helicopter pilot stationed in Kirkuk, Iraq.

While not exactly Hudson County, the race for the Republican State Senate nomination in the 24th district in Sussex and Morris counties was indeed brutal.  The contest for veteran Bob Littell's seat attracted two candidates: seven-term Assemblyman Guy Gregg, and Steven Oroho, a Sussex County Freeholder and Littell's handpicked successor.  Gregg was viewed as the front-runner, but he had expected to run against Littell's forty-year legislative record and not watch the race become a referendum on his own votes in Trenton.

Sussex County Freeholder Steve Oroho, a candidate for the GOP State Senate nomination in the 24th district
Long stretches go by in this northwestern district where there are no colorful campaign signs, only acts of nature and traces of people in the form of pickup trucks, narrow roads, fenced-in fields, and, in the distance, new luxury homes.

Whatever invasive species may upset the old order of these 31 towns and the land in-between that comprise the 24th district, the majority Republicans here hold fast to four principles that in the right hands are pure political wampum: 2nd Amendment rights, pro-life values, private property rights and low taxes.

They have a name for themselves.

"Mountain men," says Assemblyman Guy Gregg, eyes twinkling with mischievous delight in the region’s mythology, elusive to anyone who hasn’t seen how swiftly the shadows of cloud cover change the hills here.

Gregg's in a far rightward leaning fight to represent the 24th in the state Senate with Sussex County Freeholder Steve Oroho.