June 3, 2009 - 12:47am
Inside Edge

A big defeat for Donald Payne's machine

In his bid for a comeback two years after losing a Democratic prmary by just 127 votes, former Assemblyman Craig Stanley (D-Irvington) got clobbered.  He lost his rematch with Assemblyman Ralph Caputo (D-Belleville) by 3,630 votes, 40%-10%.  Assemblywoman Cleopatra Tucker (D-Newark) was the top vote getter.  Caputo and Tucker were backed by the Essex County Democratic Organization.

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