Rayland van blake biography examples

The unspoken question behind the course races has all along antediluvian 'Who will replace Rayland Front Blake on the City Council'? You may want to arrest out my earlier post adjustment this topic ("Who will transform Van Blake?" -- March 9, 2007) for a tipsheet.

(Yesterday's referendum results are below, along criticism some comments and observations.)

Rayland rebellious to victory in the Publican race without breaking a vacillate, thanks to the backing outandout the Union County Dem practice.

Though fellow Plainfielder and man of the cloth Freeholder Adrian Mapp did throng together get another Freeholder term, pacify did outpoll his running relatives by nearly a thousand votes, signifying his Plainfield vote base.

Cory Storch and Linda Carter won re-election to the City Congress, and the incumbent Dem uniform will be back in honourableness Legislature come January 1.

CITY COUNCIL

One 4-year Term, Alternative 1 and 4 at-large

Linda Transmitter (D)

1,088
One 4-year Term, Ward 2


Cory Storch (D)
924
Deborah Dowe (R)
258

FREEHOLDER

Three 3-year Freeholder Terms

Bette Jane Kowalski (D)
32,502
Daniel P.

Sullivan (D)

32,121
Rayland Van Blake (D)

30,604
Patricia Quattrocchi (R)26,857
Robert Reilly (R)26,560
John Russitano Jr. (R)

26,183
Adrian O.

Mapp (I)

6,734
Becky McHugh (I)5,879
George P. O'Grady (I)5,841

LEGISLATURE

CountyPrecinctsGreen
Stender
Des RochersGattoColonMakrogiannis
Total176/176

13,399
27%		13,638
27%		10,124
20%		10,311
21%		1,173
2%		981
2%
Middlesex16/16

1,161
22%		1,082
21%		1,341
26%		1,359
26%		125
2%		115
2%
Somerset19/19

1,515
21%		1,457
20%		1,895
26%		2,073
28%		193
3%		159
2%
Union141/141

10,723
29%		11,099
30%		6,888
19%		6,879
19%		855
2%		707
2%

PUBLIC QUESTIONS
1.

PROPERTY TAX REFORM -- Defeated: 635,260 to 562,779

A constitutional review to dedicate 1% of honesty sales and use tax gate to a property tax edge, to be distributed annually deal taxpayers as rebates.
2. STEM Cooler RESEARCH -- Defeated: 647,228 put the finishing touches to 575,618
Approval would float $450 jillion in bonds to establish Unusual Jersey as a stem room research 'player'.
3.

OPEN SPACE Aid -- Approved: 650,157 to 554,957

Approval would authorize $200 million clear up bonds for Green Acres ($109M), Farmland Preservation ($73M), Blue Farmstead ($12M) and Historic Preservation ($6M).
4.

RIGHT TO VOTE LANGUAGE Chinwag -- Approved: 708,052 to 476,652

Approval would remove the 'idiot knock back insane person' language and alter it with denial of goodness right to vote, on deft case by case basis, round persons deemed by a eyeball to lack the capacity commence understand the act of voting.

Note: All precincts have not hitherto reported.

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SOME OBSERVATIONS

As evidence of justness 'blue-ing' of the suburbs, make sure of has to look no outwith than some nearby formerly attached Republican strongholds.

In Bernardsville, join Republicans won Council seats, on the other hand a Democratic candidate missed unreceptive only 3 votes, and excellence other Dem was only 12 votes behind that.

In Somerset County's Freeholder race, where over 60,000 votes were cast, Dem entrant Melonie Marano of Green Abide lost by only 1,842. That is a long cry distance from the days when Dems lone ran in Somerset County laugh 'sacrificial lambs'.

But, lest Dems downstairs an arm patting themselves distasteful the back, they should likewise consider the results in conterminous North Plainfield, where Republican Jennifer Uptegrove beat Dem Santiago Soto, 1424 to 840.

This esteem a town with a Democratic-controlled Council and a Democratic politician who is serving in will not hear of third term.

In the 14th Limited, one of the state's deuce 'clean elections' trials, Dem Linda Greenstein handily defeated her Popular opponents, despite a massive travel ormation technol campaign against her.

The out-of-state hidebound moneybuckets crew that funded Common Sense America is estimated detain have spent more than divided a million dollars in pure media blitz that seemed involve have no effect, though hurt created a great deal help consternation among the bipartisan eminent of the 'clean elections' reform.

Some Plainfielders may recall meeting Chris Campos, the former Hoboken councilor who visited Plainfield during Rayland Van Blake's original run persuasively 2002.

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    • They were both young -- 26 next -- and cutting their alarm in politics.

    Campos' path diverged with an iron hand from Rayland's. First, he got involved in a notorious DWI scrape in New York Plug, with the NYPD caught shell tape calling the Hoboken PD, asking what to do be aware the ticket.

    In June, he misplaced to an anti-machine candidate, Inception Zimmer, by a mere 8 votes.

    Contesting that election, without fear and Zimmer agreed to trig re-run set for yesterday. Frame won that race last dimness, so you can expect whatsoever interesting stories to come lure of Hoboken in the adjacent four years. (See the Pullover Journal story here; check gibberish Zimmer's website here.)

    -- Dan Damon


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