Mike Marotta

September 26, 2008 - 11:14am
PRESS RELEASE

Passaic County GOP Calls on Democrats to End Pay-for-Play Politics

GOP Calls on Dems to Return Tainted $$ Now and Vow Not to Accept $$ From County Contractors Again

 

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September 23, 2008 - 1:57pm

Intra-party woes plague Passaic GOP

Passaic County Republicans don’t need an internal war.  But they’ve got one.

The latest flare up between leadership factions in the party occurred last Monday, when freeholder candidates Mike Marotta and Jerry Holt held a joint beefsteak dinner fundraiser with Chairman Scott Rumana, who’s also an Assemblyman, at the Brownstone Restaurant in Paterson.

That led Rumana’s critics to charge that he was competing for resources with the cash-strapped freeholder candidates.  Rumana, in turn, said that his critics were holdovers from the dark days of the party and puppets of the man who used to control it: Peter Murphy.

Meanwhile, Marotta and Holt are stuck uncomfortably in the middle while they try to campaign against Democratic incumbents Bruce James and Greyson Hannigan.

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