Joseph Marbach

February 27, 2008 - 6:42pm

Estabrook’s Jeanine Pirro moment

By Matt Friedman, PolitickerNJ.com Reporter

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Anne Evans Estabrook’s loss for words while answering a question on gun control may have gone unnoticed a few years ago, but in an age where a video of the awkward moment can circulate quickly in political circles, it could become the silence heard across New Jersey.

“It seemed like kind of a mistake that someone running for the first time in office might make, and it was done in the right kind of context with a small group meeting, where you’re practicing your stump speech, working on your ability to articulate ideas and your policy positions,” said Dr. Joseph Marbach, a political science professor at Seton Hall.

“Unfortunately, it was videotaped,” Marbach noted.

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November 19, 2007 - 8:49am

Marbach joins PolitickerNJ.com

By Editor

Seton Hall Professor Joseph Marbach has joined PolitickerNJ.com as a weekly columnistPolitickerNJ.com is pleased and honored to welcome Professor Joseph Marbach as weekly columnist. Dr. Marbach will replace the late David Rebovich, who wrote for this web site every week from 2002 until his death last month at the age of 58. Click here to read Professor Marbach's first column on voter participation.

Dr. Marbach is the Chairman of the Political Science Department at Seton Hall University and an Associate Professor of Political Science. He is also the Associate Dean for Associate Dean for Academic Administration and Outreach. He has served on the councils of the American Political Science Association's Section on Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations and the New Jersey Political Science Association.

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