Both parties will run with full slates

By: Paul Koepp
This year’s legislative elections will have full slates come the June 5 primary elections.
    Both parties filled their slate of candidates in the 14th District in the days before Monday’s deadline.
    Democrats picked labor leader and former Hamilton Councilman Wayne D’Angelo to run for the Assembly, alongside incumbent Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein, of Plainsboro. Seema Singh, the former state ratepayer advocate and a South Brunswick resident, will run for state Senate.
    On the Republican side, Hamilton Councilman Tom Goodwin will run for Assembly along with former Jamesburg Councilman Adam Bushman. Assemblyman Bill Baroni, of Hamilton, will run for Senate in place of retiring state Sen. Peter Inverso.
    Ms. Singh said she would focus on environmental issues like conserving energy and reducing carbon emission. Her experience advocating for consumers on utility issues would influence her agenda, she said. A single mother with one daughter, Ms. Singh said she is concerned about drugs and disciplinary problems in area schools.
    She also said she wanted to study the proposed Monmouth-
Ocean-Monmouth rail line to find out its negative and positive impacts on residents and the economy.
    Mr. D’Angelo said he is running to ensure that future state budgets do not chase out existing residents and are not balanced "on the backs of working men and women."
    One of his priorities is getting the state’s school construction program back on track and completed, he said.
    Mr. Bushman launched his campaign March 29, saying that in addition to property tax and ethics reform, the state Legislature should do more to support veterans. He served in the New Jersey Air National Guard and the Air Force, and was deployed to the Middle East after Sept. 11.
    Mr. Bushman said he supports a bill introduced by Mr. Baroni to stop the taxation of service members while they are deployed overseas.