35 at the time – even though Morris Plains is 20 miles from the nearest toll booth.ĭeCroce faces a fierce primary battle in her bid for re-election to a sixth term after losing party support at the Morris County GOP convention in March by nine votes. That represented 314 trips through a Garden State Parkway toll booth – tolls were. But Martin was also a Seton Hall law professor, and the added degree would improve his salary there.ĭuring the three months that his driving privileges were suspended, Martin was reimbursed $110 for replenishment of his EZ-Pass by his campaign account. He said paying his tuition from a campaign account was appropriate, since he served on the Senate Education Committee. Jon Corzine’s nominee for attorney general, about his driving record. He questioned Zulima Farber, who was Gov. Martin did not immediately disclose his arrest and was serving on the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time. A panel of there appellate court judges reversed the ruling and forced a new trial. The 74-year-old Martin retired from the Senate in 2007, four years after facing a ferocious challenge from Jay Webber in the Republican primary.Īfter a conviction on drunk driving charges and criticism over using his over $40,000 campaign funds to pay for college tuition costs so that he could receive a gradate degree in Education from Columbia University, Martin was viewed as damaged goods and left public office to avoid another primary challenge, possibly from then-Assemblyman Joseph Pennacchio (R-Montville).Īfter leaving the Senate, Martin found himself in trouble again.Īfter serving as a jury foreman in a slip and fall case at a Shop-Rite in his old legislative district that awarded someone $900,000, Martin was accused of improperly influencing the jury by offering his own legal interpretation of the judge’s instructions. She’s a person who’s very caring,” said Martin. Potato Head” for alternating his political face in an election year, made a return to the rubber chicken circuit last night when he introduced Assemblywoman BettyLou DeCroce (R-Parsippany) at a fundraiser for her re-election bid. Bob Martin (R-Morris Plains), once dubbed “Mr.
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