Republicans seek council nominations

BY TALI ISRAELI Staff Writer

BY TALI ISRAELI
Staff Writer

MARLBORO — Four Republican candidates are running in the June 7 primary for the right to seek three seats on the Township Council in November.

The terms presently held by Republican Councilman Jeff Cantor and Democratic councilmen Barry Denkensohn and James Mione will expire on Dec. 31.

The winners in November will serve four-year terms after being sworn in to office in January.

The slate of candidates that has the support of the Marlboro Republican Party includes Cantor, Colleen Napoli and Steve Rosenthal.

Cantor has filled a one-year term and is seeking his first full term on the governing body.

Karen Zaletel is the fourth Republican candidate who filed to run in the June 7 primary.

The platform put forth by Cantor, Napoli and Rosenthal will focus on implementing a good affordable housing plan for the town; obtaining the property that formerly housed the Marlboro State Psychiatric Hospital; continuing to work with seniors; ensuring that a passenger rail line does not run through Marlboro; and continuing the fight to root out corruption in politics.

Cantor, 39, has been a resident of Marlboro for 10 years. He is a volunteer emergency medical technician. He works as a district sales manager for Astrazeneca Pharmaceutical.

Cantor said he has been working to make a difference as a councilman.

“I try to do what I can to help people out. I want to continue because I think I’m doing the right thing for the residents of Marlboro and I stand committed to continue the fight,” he said.

Napoli has been a resident of Marlboro since 1997. She is a wife, a mother of three and is a patient representative at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. Napoli and her family have been active in Marlboro Pop Warner football, Little League baseball, and soccer.

Rosenthal, 41, is a husband, a father of three and the chairman of the open space committee. Rosenthal said he can offer his background in finance and business since he has started two companies and is presently the CEO of CheckPoint HR, a provider of human resource management and payroll outsourcing solutions.

He said he can assist the council in dealing with certain issues such as managing a large budget and dealing with legalities and labor issues.

Rosenthal said he got involved in open space issues because he believes that in this world there are “people that make things happen, people that watch things happen and people that wake up and ask what happened” and he wanted to be someone who made things happen.

Zaletel’s platform will focus on lowering property taxes; preserving farmland and open space; providing better nutrition and health for students; having all government contracts subject to sealed competitive bids; and implementing new traffic signals in specified areas in town.

Zaletel, 43, received a bachelor of arts degree from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and is a retired Wall Street stockbroker. She was a Republican County Committeewoman from 1998-2000 and the vice president of the Republican Businesswomen’s Club.

“With an economics and finance background, having worked on Wall Street for 12 years, I will look out for the best interest of Marlboro taxpayers. I’m the one and only independent-leaning political candidate in Marlboro who cannot be bribed. I’m Karen Z., vote for me, so we can overthrow the powers that be,” Zaletel wrote on her campaign flier.