Saturday, January 26, 2013
With two official and one unofficial candidate announcements this week, Parsippany voters will have a decision to make come June.
The race for the 2013 Township Council Republican primary election is underway. On Saturday afternoon at Lake Hiawatha Park, Parsippany Area Chamber of Commerce President Robert J. Peluso and retired Parsippany Police sergeant and Board of Education member Louis Valori announced their joint campaign for the town's lawmaking body. Speaking before a group of friends and family members, Peluso said their campaign is about honoring the past while investing in the future. "My running mate and I are standing here in the coldness of winter without a podium, without giveaways and fanfare ... as two responsible community leaders... officially declaring our candidacy for council," he stated. "Responsible leaders persevere and donʼt complain, they are…
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Councilman-elect calls his victory 'bittersweet.'
To the surprise of most observers in fully packed Town Hall Council Chambers Tuesday night, what was expected by many—the election of Dr. Louis Valori to fill newly appointed Freeholder John Cesaro's vacant Township Council seat—did not materialize. Instead, the unexpired term seat went to James Vigilante, the former councilman and present U.S. Air Force Reservist and businessperson who, along with Valori and Julie Carifi, had been selected as nominees for the position Monday night by the Parsippany Republican Committee. The special council session Tuesday night took a turn even before it began. Inside and outside Town Hall, people whispered rumors that Valori, a former Board of Education member and—he thought—a retired member of the …
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
There was an upset in the 23rd Republican district.
While most of Tuesday's primary election results became available late that night or early Wednesday morning, the certified results of the political party county committees' races were tallied throughout Wednesday in the office of Parsippany's municipal clerk. The most talked-about result, leaked at the Parsippany GOP vote-counting party at the Old Rescue and Recovery building on Centerton Drive Tuesday night, was an upset in the Republican 23rd district. Loretta and Adam Gragnani, longtime committee members and civic volunteers, were unseated by former Board of Education member Robert Crawford and outspoken citizen advocate Patricia Petaccia. A disappointed Loretta Gragnani said Tuesday that party vote counters indicated that Crawford's …
Carl Merchant
1:18 am on Thursday, January 31, 2013
Let's see if Barberio gets Mr. Inglisino to fund his campaign, everyone knows that Barberio or should I say our taxpayer money has funded Inglisinos pockets. more ›