A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains – Fanwood TIMES Thursday, December 3, 2009 Page 3 Christie Names Members to Peyton's Transition Sub-Committees Peek at the Week TRENTON – Governor-Elect Chris chairman, Jon Hanson, chairman and In Politics founder of Hampshire Real Estate Com- Christie has announced additional mem- By Paul Peyton of The Leader/Times bers of his transition sub-committees. panies and former chairman of the New These sub-committees will conduct a top Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority; to bottom review of their respective gov- Joseph Corbo, Jr., vice-president and gen- Legislation Would Force Christie Baroni Pension Bill Aimed at ernment departments and agencies. eral counsel of Borgata Hotel Casino and To Pick DEMS to Replace Sens. ‘Excessive Gov. Payouts’ Military and Veterans Affairs: retired Spa; Vince Curatola, actor; Michael Legislation (A-4271) introduced in State Senator Bill Baroni (LD-14, Unites States Army Colonel Mike Warner, Gulotta, CEO of Deo Volente Farm; the Assembly on Monday would Hamilton Square) has drafted pen- chairman and president of SMH Interna- Carole Hedinger, former acting execu- eliminate special elections to fill seats sion reform legislation aimed at pre- tional; John de Talvo, retired Perth Amboy tive director of the Lottery; superintendent of schools; Robert Mark Juliano, CEO, Trump Entertain- vacated by New Jersey’s U.S. sena- venting what he said are “excessive Ferguson, Jr., Navy, Presi- ment; Al Leiter, former Major League tors, requiring the governor to ap- government payouts from state pen- dent of Ambrose Asset Management; re- pitcher and current commentator for the point a replacement from the same sion funds to those who continue in tired General Paul Glazar; retired General YES Network; Allen Littlefield, partner party as the departing senator. post-retirement public service em- and consultant Paul Goldenberg, senior with Fishman, Littlefield and Fishman If passed, the law would ensure Repub- ployment.” He said the bill would adviser to the Department of Homeland LLC; Bob Mulcahy, former Rutgers Uni- lican Gov.-elect appoints a prevent individuals who work in full- Security; Ronald Griffin, U.S. Army Gold versity athletic director; Jim O’Neil, chief Democrat if either of New Jersey’s cur- time positions from collecting both a Photo by Jim Lowney Star Father and founder of Military Fami- of investigations for the New Jersey Lot- WHAT’S IN YOUR WALLET?…Cranford Police Benevolent Association (PBA) rent senators, Robert Menendez or Frank paycheck for public employment and President, Officer Matthew Nazzaro, pictured third from right, recently presents lies United; Mary Annie Harper, chief of tery; David Satz, vice-president of gov- Lautenberg, were to resign. a pension check simultaneously. staff for Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-Cape ernment relations and development for Silver Life Cards to the 2009 recipients who have been members of the Cranford May), and retired U.S. Marines Col. Peter Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc.; John Democrats Pressure Lawmakers Cape May Freeholders Vote to PBA in good standing for more than 20 years. Pictured, from left to right, are: Lt. O’Hagan, former director of the New Jer- Tsanas, attorney; Lloyd Tulp, principal Stephen Wilde, Officer Donald Zsak, Sgt. Anthony Dobbins, Retired Sgt. Francis To Pass Same-Sex Marriage Bill Privatize Youth Shelter Hanley and Sgt. Craig Marino. sey Division of Highway Traffic Safety with Tulfra Realty, and Finn Wentworth, Some 200 Democratic elected lead- The Cape May County Board of Department of State, Lieutenant Gov- founder of the YES Network and former ers, officials, fundraisers and campaign Chosen Freeholders voted last week ernor-Elect Kim Guadagno, chairman; CEO/COO of YankeeNets. staffers have sent a letter urging state to privatize its youth shelter, according Jeff Booker, consultant, Brown and Brown Agriculture, chairman, George Man Charged With Killing Metro Insurance; Joan Bramhall, Morris Gilmore, chairman of the Ocean County legislators to pass the gay marriage to the Atlantic City Press. The County clerk; attorney Jack Carbone; Republican Organization; Kurt Alstede, bill before the current lame-duck leg- freeholders awarded a two-year Carol Cronheim, seminar director with general manager of Alstede Farms LLC; islative session ends in January. contract to Center for Family Services Two Children Dies in Prison Leadership New Jersey and a doctorate William Brooks, farmer and deputy mayor The bill, S-1967/A-2978, has re- Inc. for $340,000 the first year and ELIZABETH — Clifton Hall, 52, match to Hall. Halsey lived in the candidate with the Bloustein School at of Upper Pittsgrove; Sam Fiocchi; Bob mained before the Senate and Assem- $320,000 the second year. The Rutgers University; Emlyn Koster, presi- Greco, chairman of the Cumberland who was awaiting trial on a 1985 rooming house with the mother of the bly Judiciary Committees since it was freeholders have said privatizing the Plainfield double homicide, died in two children. After the new evidence dent/C.E.O. of the Liberty Science Cen- County Republican Organization; Paul introduced June 8, 2008. According to facility is part of the county’s overall ter; Ruth Lipper, director of TeleTech Galletta, owner of Atlantic Blueberry jail on November 22. Hall had been was presented and all charges were bill, “Although same-sex couples may review of county operations. The ill and was diagnosed with kidney dismissed, Halsey was freed from Corp.; Terriann Moore-Abrams chief at- Company; Charles Kuperus, former sec- enter into civil unions, nonetheless facility is not a detention center, torney for Essex County, and Robert retary of agriculture and owner of Kuperus failure prior to his death, authorities jail, authorities said. Morrison, president of Quadrant Arts Farmside Gardens and Florist; Steven V. New Jersey’s discriminatory exclu- however. Cape May contracts beds at said. Hall’s trial was expected to be- Hall was charged with the murders Education Research. Lee, 4th, secretary/treasurer of Lee Broth- sion of these couples from marriage the Cumberland County Youth gin in January 2010. while he was serving time in prison, Banking and Insurance, Edward ers, Inc.,; Peter Melick, farmer with further harms same-sex couples and Detention Center for that service. Hall is accused of killing 8-year- having pled guilty to three sexual Deutsch, chairman of Somerset Hills Melick’s Town Farm and a former mem- their families by denying them unique Doherty Sworn In As New old Tyrone Urquhart and 7-year-old assaults in the 1990s. Hall was a Bancorp and a partner with the law form ber of the state Board of Agriculture; public recognition and affirmation.” Senator for 23rd District of McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney and Gregory Romano, assistant director of Tina Urquhart, who police said was neighbor in the rooming house and In their own letter, New Jersey Assemblyman Michael Doherty strangled and raped. Their bodies were his DNA was on file from the earlier Carpenter, LLP; Thomas Considine, vice- the New Jersey Conservation Founda- Catholic Bishops have called same- president of government relations, tion; Jack Tomasello, vice-president/Co- (LD-23, Washington Twp.) was sworn found in the basement of a Plainfield crimes, Mr. Cernadas said, who was sex marriage “one of the most seri- in last week as the new senator for the rooming home in November 1985, preparing to handle the case against MetLife; Claire Eckert, retired executive Owner, of the Tomasello Winery, and ous challenges” to traditional mar- with Goldman Sachs; James Gorman, Sussex County Freeholder Hal Wirths. 23rd legislative district, which en- Union County First Assistant Pros- Hall in early 2010. chairman of Blue Warrior Capital; Russell Authorities, chairman, Michael riage (a man and woman).” compasses 46 towns spread across in ecutor Albert Cernadas, Jr. said. “Clifton cheated justice for Tina Hewit, senior partner with Dughi and DuHaime, chairman and managing part- Governor Jon Corzine (D) has said Hunterdon and Warren Counties. He Another man, Bryon Halsey, was and Tyrone Urquhart by dying before Hewit, P.C.; Leo Leyva, a shareholder ner of Mercury Public Affairs, LLC; he will sign the bill if it hits his desk replaces Marcia Karrow who he de- put on trial for those murders and trial,” Mr. Cernadas said. “He never with Cole, Schotz, Meisel, Forman and Andrew Berns, partner with the law firm but Governor-elect Chris Christie (R) feated in the June Republican Pri- avoided the death penalty but was had to pay for robbing 22 years from Leonard, PA; Bruce Meisel, president/ of Einhorn, Harris, Ascher, Barbarito and said he would veto it. Mr. Christie mary. The seat was previously held CEO of Pascack Community Bank; Albert Frost, P.C.; Matthew Boxer, state comp- sentenced to life in prison. Halsey Byron Halsey – an innocent man who takes office on January 19. by Rep. Leonard Lance (R-7th). The spent 22 years in jail before evidence sat in jail for crimes he did not com- Preziosi, co-owner of World Auto Group; troller; Joseph Buckelew, executive chair- Dobbs Considers Run for Senate Cindy Radazzo, JT PAC, U.S. Represen- man of Conner Strong; John Carney, part- assembly seat will remain vacant un- was tested for DNA and showed a mit.” tative, and James Ulrich, director of glo- ner with the law firm of Baker Hostetler, In 2012 Against Menendez til a GOP committee from both coun- bal market research for Deutsche Bank. LLP; Oren Dabney, Sr., CEO of the Jer- Former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs ties names a replacement. Community Affairs, chairman, Sena- sey City Incinerator Authority; Anthony is considering a possible run for tor Sandra Cunningham (LD-31, Jersey Della Pelle, attorney with McKirdy and the in 2012 Rally Planned Saturday Against Losetwopoints.com City); Alfred Koeppe, chairman and CEO Riskin PA; Craig Domalewski, partner against incumbent Sen. Robert of the Newark Alliance; Hamilton Town- with the law firm of Dughi and Hewit, Menendez (D-N.J.), the Star Led- Trying Terrorists in U.S. Courts ship Mayor John Bencivengo; Bruce PC; Daniel Lindemann, attorney with ger reported. In addition, 2012 will A rally will be held at Foley Square •NJ State-Approved Online Blumenthal, community development Lindemann LLC; Thaddeus Maciag, at- be a ballot headed by the Presiden- in New York this Saturday at noon ombudsman for the New Jersey Housing torney with Maciag Law LLC; Steven tial race.Senator for those in opposition to the trying of and Mortgage Finance Agency; Hank Sholk, director with the Gibbons P.C. law the 9/11 conspirators in U.S. Federal Defensive Driving Course Butehorn, partner with the law firm of firm; Charles Shotmeyer, president of (D-N.J.) seat is up for reelection in 2014, but the Senator will turn 90 Court rather than in a military tribu- Ronan Tuzzio and Giannone; William Shotmeyer Brothers, Inc.; Dianne nal. Individuals will assemble at the Cassidy, senior partner with The Human Solomon, former senior account admin- that year. •Remove Two Points from your License Resource Partnership LLC; George Louis istrator witth Keane Organization, and Republicans have not won a U.S. Westfield station for a 9:50 a.m. Garcia, managing partner with Garcia Mary Elizabeth Warner, corporate coun- Senate from New Jersey since train. Look for those carrying rally •Reduce Auto Premiums Turula LLC; Kelly Hatfield, former Sum- sel with Quick Chek Corporation. 1972. signs on the eastbound platform. mit councilwoman; Sayreville Mayor Kennedy O’Brien; Ira Oskowsky, regional sales director of CMG Mortgage Insur- ance Company; Michael Pane, a partner in the law firm of Giordano, Halleran and Ciesla, PC; Middletown Deputy Mayor Gary Scharfenberger; former Livingston township manager Charles Tahaney; Tim Touhey, CEO of the New Jersey Builders Association, and Alan Zakin, principal of Alan Zakin Associates. 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