A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains – Fanwood TIMES Thursday, October 30, 2014 Page 11 Vote November 4, 2014 For Congress and For U.S. Senate Congress DEM Congress GOP District 7 US Senate GOP District 7 For New Jersey VIDEO INTERVIEW... www.goleader.com/services/video VIDEO INTERVIEW... www.goleader.com/services/video VIDEO INTERVIEW... www.goleader.com/services/video Challenger Janice Kovach with Paul Peyton. Incumbent Leonard Lance, right, with Paul Peyton. Challenger Jeff Bell, right, with Paul Peyton. Janice Kovach (D) Leonard Lance (R) Jeff Bell (R) Candidate for Congress, 7th District Candidate for Congress, 7th District Candidate for United States Senate Janice Kovach has been mayor of Fleet and NatWest Banks. Mayor Rep. Leonard Lance was elected to his great-uncle, H. Kiefer Lance, and Jeff Bell became the New Jersey to 2010, he was a principal of Capital the Town of Clinton since 2012 and Kovach earned a bachelor’s degree in the United States House of Repre- his father, Wesley L. Lance. Leonard Republican Party nominee for U.S. City Partners, where he worked on before that was a council member business administration from Tho- sentatives in November 2008 and re- Lance was born in 1952 and raised in Senate when he defeated four-term promoting comprehensive immigra- from 2004 to 2006. Her four-year mas Edison State College. elected to a third term on November Hunterdon County. He received a incumbent Clifford Case in 1978 in tion reform, the Bush mayoral term runs through the end of As a volunteer, she served as a 6, 2012 to represent New Jersey’s 7th bachelor’s degree from Lehigh Uni- the Primary at the age of 34 before Administration’s faith-based initia- 2015. trustee of the Red Mill Museum Vil- Congressional District. versity, where he was elected to Phi losing to Democrat Bill Bradley in tives, and combating human traffick- Additionally, she served as the di- lage and as president and trustee of Prior to coming to Congress, Mr. Beta Kappa. He also holds a law the General Election. ing. rector of the New Jersey Division of the CPS Partners in Education Foun- Lance served as a member of the degree from Vanderbilt University A graduate of Columbia Univer- In 2009, he was among the co- Women, in the Department of Com- dation. Additionally, she has been an New Jersey State Senate beginning and a master’s degree from the sity, Mr. Bell went on to serve in the founders of the American Principles munity Affairs, from 2006 to 2010, a appointee to the Highlands Water in 2002, where he represented the Woodrow Wilson School of Public U.S. Army in Vietnam, where he was Project, a public policy organization position appointed by the Governor. Protection and Planning Council. She 23rd Legislative District. He held the and International Affairs of Princeton an intelligence advisor to the South dedicated to advancing conservative She ran for the New Jersey General is a Leadership NJ Fellow (Class of position of minority leader of the University. Vietnamese infantry during the Tet ideas derived from the principles of Assembly in 2005 in the 23rd Legis- 2009). Her other community involve- Senate from 2004 to 2008. He was He served as the law clerk to the offensive. Upon returning home, he the American founding. As policy lative District. ment includes board memberships sworn in as a member of Congress on Warren County Court in 1977 and joined the national presidential cam- director, he headed its monetary re- She is a business consultant with with groups such as the Girl Scouts January 6, 2009 and was appointed to 1978. He was assistant counsel for paign staff of Richard Nixon in 1968 form initiative aimed at renewing expertise in business operations and Heart of New Jersey, United Way the House Financial Services Com- county and municipal matters to Gov- and later went to work for Ronald sound money by restoring the dollar’s management. Previously, she was a Women’s Leadership Council, and mittee. In 2011, Congressman Lance ernor Thomas H. Kean from 1983 to Reagan in 1974. He was elected from value in gold. He resigned from that director with Prudential in charge of the Women’s Heart Foundation. left the House Financial Services 1990. He has been a member of the New Jersey as a Reagan delegate to position in February 2014 to run for a 24/7 call center and a marketing She lives in Clinton with her hus- Committee and was appointed to the New Jersey Council on the Humani- the 1980 Republican National Con- U.S. Senate. project management group. She also band, Stephen, and their three chil- House Energy and Commerce Com- ties and a trustee of the Newark Mu- vention. Jeff and his wife, Rosalie, have has held management positions with dren. mittee. Before his election to the State seum, McCarter Theatre in Princeton From 1988 to 2000, he served as been married since 1983 and have Senate, he served in the New Jersey and Centenary College in president of Lehrman Bell Mueller three sons and one daughter ranging Bonnie Watson Coleman (D) General Assembly for 11 years (1991 Hackettstown. Cannon Inc., an economic forecast- in ages from 19 to 28 as well as a one- to 2002), where he chaired the bud- He is married to Heidi A. Rohrbach ing and consulting firm. From 2000 year-old granddaughter. Candidate for Congress, Dist. 12 get committee. and they have a son, Peter Frank, a Born in Camden, Bonnie Watson University. Rep. Lance is the third generation graduate of the University of Wis- Cory Booker (D) Coleman currently resides in Ewing She served on the Governing of his family to serve in the New consin. The Lances reside in Clinton Township. She has represented the Boards Association of State Colleges Jersey State Legislature, following Township. Candidate for United States Senate 15th Legislative District in the Gen- from 1987 to 1998 and as its chair Senator Cory A. Booker was born University of Oxford, Oxford, En- eral Assembly since 1998. from 1991 to 1993. Asw. Watson Alieta Eck (R) on April 27, 1969, in Washington, gland, as a Rhodes Scholar and re- She is the first African-American Coleman was a member of the Ewing Candidate for Congress, District 12 D.C. ceived a graduate degree in 1994. woman to serve as majority leader of Township Planning Board from 1996 He graduated from Northern Val- Sen. Booker received his law degree the New Jersey General Assembly, to 1997. She was a member of the Alieta Eck ran in the 2013 Repub- of American Physicians and Sur- ley Regional High School, Old from Yale Law School in 1997. and the first African-American Richard Stockton College of New lican Primary for US Senate. geons. She serves on the advisory Tappan, N.J., in 1987. He received a He worked as an attorney in the woman to serve as chairwoman of Jersey Board of Trustees from 1981 Dr. Eck graduated from the Rutgers board of Christian Care Medishare Bachelor of Arts degree in political non-profit sector before he was the New Jersey Democratic State to 1998 and was its chair from 1990 College of Pharmacy and the St. Louis and is a member of Zarephath Chris- science from Stanford University in elected to the Newark City Council Committee, a post she held from 2002 to 1991. School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo. tian Church. She and her husband 1991 and a Master’s degree in soci- where he served from 1998 to 2002. to 2006. In 1974, she established the first She studied internal medicine at RWJ have five children, one a physician in ology from Stanford in 1992. He He ran for mayor in 2002, but lost to She received a Bachelor of Arts Office of Civil Rights, Contract Com- Univ. Hospital in New Brunswick his residency in ophthalmology. also attended The Queen’s College, incumbent Sharp James, but ran again degree from Thomas Edison State pliance and Affirmative Action, in and has been in private practice with in 2006 where he defeated Deputy College in 1985, and attended Rutgers the New Jersey Department of Trans- her husband, Dr. John Eck, in Vote No on Constitutional Ammendment Two Mayor Ronald Rice. He was re- portation and remained the director Piscataway since 1988. She has been On November 4, the voters of NJ will its land area preserved amounting to 1.5 elected in 2010 after easily defeating Jim LaCorte (D) of that office for six years. In 1980, involved in health care reform since be asked to approve a constitutional million acres. Many municipalities have former county prosecutor Clifford she joined the Department of Com- residency and testified before the Joint amendment to allow the State of NJ to their own open space trust funds, in addi- Minor. For County Surrogate fund an annual appropriation of $150m/ tion to federal, state, and county. munity Affairs (DCA), where she held Economic Committee of Congress in year, with no sunset clause, to purchase NJ is, as everyone knows, in a state of Mr. Booker was elected to the Surrogate Jim LaCorte entered office a number of positions including, as- 2004 about better ways to deliver United States Senate in a special elec- on January 1, 2000. Surrogate LaCorte open space in NJ. In 2020, the amount of severe fiscal crisis with everything from sistant commissioner, responsible for health care in the United States. funding rises to $200m/year. The money teacher’s pensions, to transportation and tion on October 16, 2013, defeating was a practicing attorney in Elizabeth for Republican Steve Lonegan, to fill the 25 years prior to assuming office.