June 3, 2009 - 1:06pm
Inside Edge

Nissley wins big

Eleonore Nissley won a decisive victory in her comeback bid for Republican State Committeewoman in Bergen County, defeating former Franklin Lakes Councilwoman Pearl Spector by nearly 5,000 votes, 60%-40%.  This marks a return to the seat Nissley held from 1965 until her narrow defeat in 2005.

Christine Giordano Hanlon, a rising star in Monmouth County GOP politics, was elected Republican State Committeewoman on Tuesday.  Running unopposed, she outpolled State Committeeman candidate John Bennett, a former Co-Senate President, and for 84 hours in 2002, the Acting Governor, by 1,006 votes countywide.  Today, Menna Supko & Nelson, a Shrewsbury-based law firm, announced that Hanlon has joined them as a partner.  This is the firm of Brian Nelson, a former Executive Director of the Republican State Committee.

Wally Edge can be reached via email at politicsnj@aol.com.