Monday, January 31, 2005

New Jersey Governor's Race -- Meet the Candidates

The Jersey GOP Blog had a piece a few days back asking if six Republicans could beat one Democrat. Reading that, I realized I didn't really know enough about each candidate.
Here's the first in a series of pieces I'm putting together about our Republican candidates for governor. In this table, just some basic facts about each announced candidate, as gleaned from their campaign web sites. Hope you find this helpful!


Candidate

Paul DiGaetano

Doug Forrester

Steve Lonegan

John Murphy

Bob Schroeder

Bret Schundler

Contact Info

Snail

DiGaetano for Governor
PO Box 9216
Lyndhurst, New Jersey 07071

Forrester for Governor

29 Emmons Drive C-10

Princeton, NJ 08540

Lonegan for Governor, Inc., P.O. Box 280

Ridgewood, NJ 07451-0280

John Murphy for Governor
1719 Route 10
Suite 123
Parsippany, NJ 07054

Elect Robert Schroeder Governor, Inc. P.O. Box 2005, Washington Township, NJ 07676

Schundler for Governor

187 Mill Lane
Mountainside, NJ 07092

Tel

201-896-0107
201-896-0108 fax

609-452-0101

609-452-0008 fax

201-836-2026

973-267-6004

973-267-9020 fax

201-664-7405

908-379-2738
908-379-2434 fax

E

E-mail

E-mail

E-mail

E-Mail

No email on site

E-mail

Current Elected Position

Assemblyman, District 36, 8th term.


Mayor, Bogota

Morris County Freeholder, 3-term

Washington Township Council (since 1991)


Previous Elected Position

Former Majority Leader in the Assembly

Mayor, West Windsor


Mayor, Morris Township

2 term Twp Council President, 3 term VP

Republican nominee for Governor, 2001

Other Government Experience


Assistant State Treasurer




Mayor, Jersey City, 3 terms (92-01).

Business

President, Paul J. DiGaetano and Sons, Construction & Development firm

Benecard Services, Inc.

Custom Homebuilder

Financial Services Industry. Partner in Morristown Financial Group.

President, API Distributors

Finance, Salomon Brothers and CJ Lawrence

Organizations & Leadership


Mercer County Republican Organization

State national finance VP for NFIB

Volunteer firefighter since 1982. Former Captain, Fire Company President, Volunteer Fire Chief. Others.

Volunteer firefighter for over 25 years


Education

Notre Dame, Aerospace Engineering


BA, Business Admin, Wm Paterson College

MBA, Farleigh Dickinson Univ

BA, Business Admin, Gettysburg College

Farleigh Dickinson Univ (1982)

Harvard University

Home

Nutley

West Windsor

Bogota

Morristown

Washington Twp

Jersey City

Family

Wife Yvonne, 3 sons age 8-16

Wife, Andrea

3 grown children

Wife, Lorraine, teenage daughters Brooke and Katharine

Wife, Jennifer, 3 children (Caitlin, Megan and Jack)

Cute kids.

Married, two young children

Wife, Lynn

Daughter Shaylin, son Hans Otto III

Age

?

?

48

?

44

49

For the candidates and their campaign staffs: if I have inadvertantly misread something on your website, I'll gladly correct it. Also, I'll take any additional information to fill in the blanks.