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SCOTT GARRETT IN THE NEWS
Garrett wins GOP battle for Congress
Wednesday, June 05, 2002
By BILL CAHIR, The Express-Times
Assemblyman E. Scott Garrett of Sussex County on Tuesday won the Republican primary to replace U.S. Rep. Marge Roukema, the 11-term Republican who
is retiring from the seat in New Jersey's 5th Congressional District. Carl Forti, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee described Garrett as "someone who can represent the district well.
He's ideologically in line to represent a district that Bush won (in 2000) and Bret Schundler won (as the GOP nominee for governor in 2001)."
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Garrett bests four in GOP primary to succeed Roukema
Wednesday, June 05, 2002
BY JONATHAN SCHUPPE, Star-Ledger Staff
Add persistence and good timing to E. Scott Garrett's book on how to win an election.
After two narrow primary losses to Rep. Marge Roukema in 1998 and 2000, the veteran state assemblyman from Sussex County won the Republican Party
nomination last night in the 5th Congressional District in a race that did not include Roukema, who is retiring after 11 terms.
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June 5, 2002
Garrett defeats Cardinale, Russo in landslide
By RUSS FLANAGAN, Herald Staff Writer
For Assemblyman Scott Garrett, the third time was a charm.
After coming close to defeating Rep. Marge Roukema in the 1998 and 2000 GOP primaries,
Garrett finally came away with a primary victory Tuesday, defeating his opponents in the five-way race in a landslide.
Garrett, R-24, defeated his closest rival and fellow assemblyman, David Russo, by 6,743
votes (15,867-9,124). Garrett received 45 percent of the votes and Russo received 26 percent. State Sen. Gerald Cardinale, who had touted himself as the front-runner at times during the campaign, came in third with
8,923 votes or 25 percent.
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May 30, 2002
Bush has conservative friend in the Jersey hills
By Lorraine Ash, Daily Record
E. Scott Garrett says it is easy to realize the difference. This is the third time he’s running for Congress in New Jersey’s 5th Congressional
District, but for the first time, there is no Marge Roukema, R-Ridgewood, in his way.
"It’s a significant difference," Garrett said before a campaign forum Wednesday in Hackettstown. "You are not going against a 20-year
incumbent with a lot of name recognition."
With Roukema retiring from the House of Representatives at the end of the year, polls say Garrett is the leader in a five-person scramble for the
Republican nomination. His main challenger appears to be state Sen. Gerald Cardinale, R-Bergen.
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April 17, 2002
Campaign trail leads Garrett to Ridgewood
Assemblyman E. Scott Garrett, a candidate for the 5th Congressional seat, appeared in Ridgewood on Monday to discuss a topic that was on the minds
of many that day: taxes.
Garrett said that he would endorse the Taxpayers Bill of Rights that is currently in the House. Garrett said that paying taxes needed to be
simplified and that taxpayers should not be punished for making innocent mistakes.
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April 11, 2002
Key Upset in Bergen County Favors Garrett
Garrett, who has strong support in the western portion of the district, seems to have gained the most from Russo's upset.
Russo is virtually
unknown in the district especially in the west," said Garrett in an interview yesterday. "He has no campaign organization to speak of at this point."
Garrett pointed to his 1998 and 2000
primary challenges to Roukema as evidence that he knows how to run a race pitting "a conservative against a liberal."
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April 7, 2002
Garrett Picks Up Steam in NJ's 5th
The Warren County Republican Committee on Thursday endorsed New Jersey Assemblyman E. Scott Garrett, R-Sussex, as its favored candidate to replace
U.S. Rep. Marge Roukema, R-Bergen.
Perhaps more importantly, Garrett won another key battle Thursday night, when the Bergen County Republican Committee surprised Republicans throughout the fifth congressional
district and endorsed Assemblyman David C. Russo, R-Midland Park.
Garrett claimed he would not concentrate upon social issues, but on economic themes. He said would cite the need to cut income taxes in New
Jersey, propose to reduce property levies and criticize Russo's voting record in Trenton. Russo should not have backed the statewide referendum to issue $9 billion in bonds for school construction, Garrett opined.
The bond issue taxed people in rural counties, including Warren, but offered them little in return, he stated.
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April 6, 2002
Cardinale Losses the Bergen County
Republican Convention to David Russo ensuring a Garrett victory in the primary.
The stunning Russo victory had political watchers scrambling to get a sense of the new landscape in the race.
Cardinale has certainly lost
ground, said David Rebovich, a close observer of Jersey politics and Rider University political science professor.
"It does seem that Cardinale's claim to have the huge Bergen County base in his back
pocket is off the mark right now," Rebovich said.
Garrett, "a tenacious campaigner with a well-oiled staff," certainly is in a good position, Rebovich said.
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