Races for Mayor, Council and School Board Top Tuesday's Gloucester Township Ballot

Incumbent township Mayor David Mayer and three council members will be challenged by a slate of Republican candidates in Tuesday's election.

Incumbents include Mayer and fellow Democrats Dan Hutchison, Frank Schmidt and Michelle Winters. Republican candidates are Tanya Brown for mayor; Paul DiBartolo, Patricia Kline and Joseph Pauli for council.

There are also six candidates running for three, three-year terms on the nine-member Gloucester Township school board. 

Six candidates are running for three, three-year terms on the board.

The three incumbents running for reelection are William Collins, Linda Gilch and Ellen Reese. The three challengers are Richard Bobbe, Dominic Gagliardi and Sean Hengst. Collins is the board president.

There are two candidates running for one township seat on the nine-member Black Horse Pike Regional School District Board of Education. They are Mark Schmitz and Troy Rehrig.

In an election season dominated by the New Jersey governor’s race, there’s no shortage of other races crowding the ballot in Camden County.

Besides the governor and various local races, including decisions on school board members, voters will have to consider county and 4th District legislative races, as well as two ballot questions.

At the county level, voters will choose two freeholders; incumbent Democrats Edward McDonnell and Carmen Rodriguez face Republicans Kimone Smith and Ian Gill, as well as a pair of independents—Kathleen Kunyckza, who’s running under the Government Reform banner, and Kathryn Petner, who’s running under the People’s Choice banner.

In the 4th District, voters will have to pick both a state senator and two assembly representatives. Incumbent Sen. Fred Madden, who’s spent a decade in office, faces Republican challenger Giancarlo D’Orazio; in the Assembly race, incumbents Paul Moriarity and Gabrielle Mosquera face Republicans Phil Deiser and Theodore Liddell.

A pair of statewide ballot questions are also up—voters will have to consider whether to increase the state minimum wage to $8.25 an hour, with automatic cost-of-living increases built in to future years, and whether to allow veterans groups to run games of chance and use the money raised from those to fund their organizations.

BILL DUHART(EDITOR) CONTRIBUTED TO THIS REPORT