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Unofficial Hunterdon Results not good news for Marcia Karrow

by: Rosi Efthim

Tue Jun 02, 2009 at 08:35:37 PM EDT

Updated results: Doherty 52%, Karrow 48%, with some Warren County precincts still out. Warren results will be here (click Current Election Results).

Low turnout in Hunterdon County, as almost everywhere else in NJ, boosted Steve Lonegan's numbers here. But they may have helped drive a victory for the State Senate candidate allied with Lonegan, Mike Doherty. Results are still unofficial for Hunterdon, but here's what the numbers look like right now, with almost all the county's votes counted:

Marcia A. Karrow 5,920 47.86%
Michael J. Doherty 6,445 52.11%

Hunterdon is Karrow's home turf, and if the incumbent of just weeks was to win, it would be here. She lives in Flemington, grew up here where her father had a popular menswear shop on Main Street, and climbed the political food chain here as Raritan Township Committeewoman, then Mayor, then Freeholder and Freeholder Director, then Assemblywoman, then Senator.

Results are not yet in for Warren County, but that's Doherty country, and his voters are reliable supporters who likely also cast their ballots for Lonegan. Lonegan's ahead here, but that's not shocking news. Current numbers: Lonegan 49.86%, Christie 45.80%, Merkt 4.27%.

I am not seeing Warren County results available yet. But just about to go out on another hunt for them. But with 41% of all distrits reporting, Doherty is leading Karrow 52%-48%.

Karrow took some indignant drubbing from some Republicans - and some vets - for choosing Memorial Day to lob a mail piece to voters accusing her opponent of "Surrender in Iraq." Robo-calls followed that, with the same message.

Doherty is a West Point grad, with 8 years in the Army, and three sons in the military - Army, Air Force, and Marines. It was a move more tone-deaf and less sure-footed than Karrow's usual style. A hail-Mary pass.

It may have contributed to her loss.

If Doherty's lead holds through the Warren results - very likely - I'm torn between the horror of being represented by this man for the next four years, and the delicious idea of running some worthy against what may be the starkest dark star in the state of New Jersey.

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our androcentric legislature (4.00 / 1)

How many female spots do we lose this year? Dana Redd and Nilsa Cruz Camden, Sandy Love in GlouCo and now increasingly looking like Karrow, too.

for anyone who give a hoot about equality for women might be chagrined at this trend.

activist for hire.

by: Jay Lassiter @ Wed Jun 03, 2009 at 00:44:17 AM UTC

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This is unbelievable (0.00 / 0)

NJN has Doherty up by 1000 votes, 52-48% with 18 precincts still out.

So the GOP primary electorate in northwestern NJ has sent a far-right, bigoted, homophobic, done-nothing-for-his-district-whatsoever, idiot. Fantastic.

by: njnewsgrrl @ Wed Jun 03, 2009 at 01:48:15 AM UTC

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Toilets (0.00 / 0)

This is the same clown who gave us "Toiletgate", issuing a press release warning parents not to send their children on school trips to the State Capital for fear they might be molested by homosexuals in the bathroom.

However, as pundits have pointed out, he's been representing the district as assemblyman longer than Karrow.

This is Lonegan, and Ron Paul, territory. Which makes it so much more incomprehensible she would send out that stupid mailer attacking Doherty for supporting Ron Paul. That's like running for mayor of Boston and attacking your opponent for being Irish-Catholic.

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by: ken bank @ Wed Jun 03, 2009 at 02:03:06 AM UTC

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HE'S homophobic? (0.00 / 0)

Let me tell you about Marcia Karrow.

She voted against CIVIL UNIONS. And when some constituents wrote her to tell them they support marriage equality, she wrote them back and told them she would NEVER support anything involving gay rights in New Jersey.

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by: joeygillis @ Wed Jun 03, 2009 at 01:51:05 AM UTC

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Mike is worse. (0.00 / 0)

I guarantee it.

by: njnewsgrrl @ Wed Jun 03, 2009 at 01:55:10 AM UTC

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njnewsgrrl is right. (0.00 / 0)

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.

by: Rosi Efthim @ Wed Jun 03, 2009 at 03:10:22 AM UTC

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You know, grrlygrrl... (3.00 / 1)

Sometimes I wonder if this area just flat don't deserve him. If these people out here are gonna vote for him like they do, they deserve the utter lack of representation he delivers.

Morons for a moron.

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by: Tandalayo Scheisskopf @ Wed Jun 03, 2009 at 05:22:07 AM UTC

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I've been thinking that, too. (0.00 / 0)

Between Doherty and Garrett, who are two birds of a feather, and then Johnny D on top of that... oy vey.

It is fundamental that citizens get the representation they deserve. If you don't participate in the process actively, you get primary results like this one. Marcia lost because the traditional Christie Whitman-Leonard Lance Hunterdon GOP voters didn't turn out.

Until the majority of voters of Warren and Hunterdon wake up and smell the wasted taxpayer money that they pay to these bumps-on-logs in salary and benefits, they're going to be stuck with representation that may accurately represent their views, but which does absolutely nothing for them in return.

by: njnewsgrrl @ Wed Jun 03, 2009 at 20:06:04 PM UTC

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I would just like to say, m'dear... (0.00 / 0)

Sure is good to see you here. No one knows the ins and outs of out here in the Broccoli like you do.

Except maybe me. ;-)

Mega-smooch. You formidable vixen, you. :D

PS: So let's look at the Republican ticket out here, at the top: A serial liar, a moron, and a failed Sopranos extra. Outstanding.

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by: Tandalayo Scheisskopf @ Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 11:49:37 AM UTC

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Tandalayo .... can I just say? (0.00 / 0)

Tandalayo & I both know who njnewsgrrl is, and and yeah, she's smarter about the Broccoli than most people who try to write about Warren County.

Broccoli. See? Now you have me doing it.

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.

by: Rosi Efthim @ Sat Jun 06, 2009 at 03:16:24 AM UTC

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