Inverso out

Voters in South Brunswick, Cranbury, Jamesburg and Monroe will have a new face representing them in the state Senate this year. Sen. Peter Inverso, a Republican, is expected to announce today that he will not seek re-election to a sixth term, making him the 12th senator to announce his retirement.

Politics NJ is speculating that Assemblyman Bill Baroni, a Republican, will run in his stead, though the two-term Assemblyman just announced his reelection plans last week.

Assemblyman Bill Baroni is expected to seek the GOP nomination for State Senate. Senate Republicans say that Inverso will endorse Baroni for his seat.

On Saturday, Mercer County Democrats endorsed Seema Singh, the state Ratepayer Advocate, as their candidate for Senate. Baroni vs. Singh offers a contest between Baroni’s base in blue collar Hamilton and Singh’s appeal to a growing block of Asian American voters in the 14th district.

Ms. Singh, who lives in South Brunswick had been slated to be the state’s public advocate by former Gov. Jim McGreevey, but the McGreevey administration failed to reinstate the position.

As for Mr. Baroni, he told Gannett:

“I intend to carry on his legacy,” said Baroni.

We’ll see where this goes. More later.

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A story is a story, part II

Some responses to my post (and Editor’s Note) yesterday about the response we received to a story on a civil union ceremony in Monroe:

I just read your blog entry about writing a story about gay people in The Cranbury Press. I grew up in Cranbury my whole life and now live in NYC and I am 100 percent homo. Always have been. Always will be. It’s sad that people still have hatred for gay people and are small minded but good for you for printing a story like that. The world changes because of journalists like you. We can have the nationwide press tell our stories but it’s the little papers like The Cranbury Press that can make just as much of a difference. If I was a kid and read that story during my childhood growing up in Cranbury, I probably never would have forgotten it.

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My husband and I along with many of our friends here at The ponds community inMonroe are supportive of the wonderful human interest story of the civil unionOf Steve Lourie and Frank Pisciotta, who finally earned the rights so longdenied them. They are fine human beings and we are happy to call them friends. We wish them the best. Please don’t let angry, small minded people deter youfrom reporting on important issues that have an impact on real human beings.

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I am amazed at the reaction to your story on Monroe’s first civil union celebration. It certainly was newsworthy, and I found it most interesting. I am a regular newspaper reader, and there are many stories in which I am not interested, so I skip them. That is why I do not like TV news, which decides what news I must watch. The angry readers should get a life, and let other people live theirs.

I am a resident of The Ponds, happy that our community is so welcoming, and personally glad to have Stephen Lourie and Frank Pisciotta as neighbors.

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It’s nice to know that not everyone is intolerant.

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