Age: 51

Hometown: Franklin Borough

Occupation: Public Charter School Administrator

Personal or professional background: My career in education began as a teacher, later serving as principal and district administrator, with experience in both traditional public and public charter schools. I served three years on the Franklin Borough Council, including as Council President, and five years as a Sussex County Commissioner (Freeholder), including time as Director, where I prioritized the needs of rural northwest New Jersey. I am now a Republican Assemblywoman serving on the Education Committee, the Commerce, Economic Development & Agriculture Committee, and the Aging & Human Services Committee, as well as the GOP Energy Task Force. As the mother of three, I bring both professional and personal perspective to advocating for working families and rural communities.

What is your top issue this year? My top issue this election is restoring true affordability by tackling New Jersey’s worst cost-drivers: energy and school funding. Families are opening obscene utility bills averaging $800 a month, the direct result of Trenton’s reckless, unaffordable energy mandates that sidelined reliable nuclear energy and clean natural gas in favor of costly experiments. At the same time, a broken school funding formula has crushed rural and suburban towns, spiking property taxes while schools fire staff and cut programs. Energy and education are not luxuries — they are essentials. I will continue to fight to end Trenton’s tone-deaf policies, secure a fair school funding formula, and stabilize utility costs so families can afford to stay in New Jersey.

What are your specific proposals for making New Jersey more affordable? The first step is electing Jack Ciattarelli as Governor. NJ cannot afford more progressive control that funds non-essentials. Affordability starts with fixing the flawed school funding formula, which has punished rural and suburban districts, driving up property taxes and forcing staff cuts. We must also reform energy policy, ending the governor’s costly mandates, restoring balance with reliable nuclear and natural gas, and lowering crushing utility bills, now $800 a month for many families. I’ve advanced legislation to grow apprenticeships so residents can train for good-paying jobs here at home. Republicans will reallocate wasteful spending on pork projects into essentials like schools, energy infrastructure, and direct taxpayer relief.

Do you support the state law designed to increase the amount of affordable housing and if not, how would you make housing less costly for residents? New Jersey’s “affordable housing” law is crushing us. The Mount Laurel doctrine has morphed into a weapon of overreach, stripping local control and handing power to developers. In Cranbury, a 175-year family farm is being taken by eminent domain to meet bogus quotas. That’s appalling. Families lose land, while towns face sudden growth that roads, water, sewers, police, fire, and EMS cannot handle. Schools are already cutting staff, yet Trenton forces more density without classrooms to support it. Murphy and Democrats doubled down, ignoring warnings while siding with developers over families. Republicans will restore local control, protect farmland, ensure responsible growth, and fix the school funding formula so families can afford to stay.

How would you manage potential federal funding cuts to social services, health care, education, and other areas, particularly in light of the state’s budget challenges? When we talk about “federal cuts,” much of this funding was never permanent — it was one-time COVID money. Building long-term programs on short-term dollars was irresponsible.

Additionally, oversight has been sloppy: in 2023, NJ’s SNAP error rate was 35.7%, with 33.5% in overpayments — over $660M paid in error. In 2024 it was still 14.3%, well above the national average. Meanwhile, Trenton Democrats stuffed $700M in pork into the budget on Olympic-sized pools, pickleball, and pet projects. Families can’t spend mortgage money on luxuries, but Democrats do with your tax dollars. We must reallocate waste to essentials like health care, food, and schools. NJ has a spending problem and a Majority that cannot differentiate wants from needs.

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Age: 72

Hometown: Long Valley (Washington Twp, Morris Cty)

Occupation: Retired

Personal or professional background: Sales and Marketing executive with 35 years building experience in product development, market development and management. This experience has prepared me to understand how to understand problems and solve them in an organized and structured manner. We were a process manufacturer. When we had product complaints from customers it almost always meant that we had a process problem at the time the product was made. The last five years of my career were as an in-house consultant working on business process improvement projects.

What is your top issue this year? Our government in New Jersey has lost the confidence of many citizens. We have a process problem. When public policy more closely aligns with public opinion and the state does not seem to be run for the benefit of special interests, people will be more satisfied with government. This can only happen when we change the way we elect our government. The top issue for me is Electoral Reform followed by Government Reform. We must make the government more accountable to the people.

What are your specific proposals for making New Jersey more affordable? We must take an analytical approach to identify the root causes for high property taxes and address those causes. We have over 530 municipalities in our state generating a lot of redundancy in local governments. We can do this without compromising the effectiveness of our government services or our schools. Services can be consolidated to achieve cost reductions. In our schools, Administration and overhead can be consolidated while student to teacher ratios and other elements of education delivery can be preserved.

Do you support the state law designed to increase the amount of affordable housing and if not, how would you make housing less costly for residents? We have talked a good game on affordable housing but we’re not solving the problem. We need stronger funding for the affordable housing trust fund. Red tape and administrative delays for affordable housing projects must be reduced. And when an affordable housing project will impose unreasonable burdens on infrastructure including schools, the state should provide some assistance to minimize the impact on the local community.

How would you manage federal funding cuts to social services, health care, education, and other areas, particularly in light of the state’s budget challenges? We are fortunate to have a surplus in our state finances. But we cannot be certain that we can replace all federal dollars that may be lost. We must set priorities and fund on the basis of those priorities. So identifying and prioritizing the more urgent needs will enable us to use our limited funds to maximum advantage.

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