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PoliticsNJ.com: 2007: A Republican Year
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| News Date | Wednesday, November 7, 2007 05:20:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | 2007 was a Republican year in New Jersey, thanks to some significant local gains, a well played game of defense, the defeat of two ballot referendums, and the growing insignificance of Governor Jon “Hold Me Accountable” Corzine. It is arguably the first Republican year in New Jersey, albeit marginally, since 1997.
Republicans ousted State Senator Ellen Karcher in the 12th, has a net gain of two Assembly seats – defeating two-term Democrat Michael Panter in Monmouth County and winning back the 8th district seat they lost earlier this year when Francis Bodine switched parties to run for the Senate. The GOP won both Assembly seats in District 2, holding Frank Blee’s seat and picking up the one Jim Whelan vacated.
Republican Mayors will replace Democratic Mayors in three towns -- Toms River (pop. 89,706, the seventh largest town in the state), Hamilton Township, (pop. 87,109, the eighth largest), and Brick (pop. 76,119, the 12th largest). Symbolically, they elected a Republican Mayor of Rutherford, where incumbent Bernadette McPherson (who is a Bergen County Freeholder) won just 31% of the vote in an EnCap-related defeat. Franklin Township Mayor Brian D. Levine held on to win re-election in a Democratic town.
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