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Why I Am Running For State Senator For The 30th District

4/11/2013

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From the Howell Patch

I would like to take a moment to introduce myself to the voters of Howell, Wall, Point Pleasant, Belmar, and all the other Shore communities in the 30th district.

I have been an active member in the Lakewood business community for many years. I am the owner of Toys For Thought, one of the largest specialty toy stores in the country. I created our store from a hundred year old building that was previously being used as a crack house. I have tried to help revitalize Lakewood's crumbling main street, and although it has been a slow transformation, we are making some headway.

A few years back I started to realize that so much of the progress that we could achieve to help our communiites thrive was being thwarted by a group of self serving entrenched politicians. Lakewood began to suffer from explosive growth that is now threatening to damage neighboring townships as well. There were so many important issues not being dealt with, and I decided to challenge the one person that I felt was the foundation of all that was wrong with Lakewood. I ran against Robert Singer for his Township Committee seat. Surprisingly I received 46 percent of the vote, and although I lost in the primary, I was able to scare Singer off from running against (our current Mayor) Isaac Akerman in the general election.

I never felt that challenging our Entrenched Senator for his 30th district seat would be a viable option until I realized that many of the other towns in our district feel the same way about Singer as Lakewood does. For over twenty years our Senator has worked hard for his donors and corporations, but not for the good of the people. He has been involved in helping builders, and organizations that have hurt the taxpayer, and allowed the explosive growth that threatens our way of life.

I am not accepting any donations from organizations, businesses or special interests and will have no need to cater to their needs. I have a few immediate goals, and will work tirelessly and join other legislators that are trying to enact real significant change. I am not going to blindly say I will try to lower property taxes. I will work hard to find alternate school funding that is both equitable and fair to all that understand that our children need to learn, but not at the expense of taxing our homeowners out of their homes. I will work hard to slow the explosive growth in Lakewood without any regard to crumbling infrastructure in our area. I will address the needs of businesses, as I know all too well the challenges of running a small business. I will strive to bring respectable jobs and manufacturing back to our area without damaging the character of our communities. I look forward to being able to help our idyllic shore towns recover from the tragedy of Hurricane Sandy.

In the future I will be writing more detailed articles about my campaign. I would like to thank the Patch websites for giving me an honest open forum to do so. I also hope to hear from all concerned citizens about what matters most to them.

Respectfully yours

Harold Herskowitz

hhforsenate@gmail.com
9 Comments
chaim yankel
4/11/2013 03:34:51 am

YOU GOT MY VOTE,and anyone who wan'ts too improve lakewood should too.BMG doesn't have our best interests in lakewood either.the township commitee is what it is because BMG wan'ts it that way.and they took away one hundred and fifty million dollars from taxpayers money in land.they paid $700,000 for a dump of a house with a 100x150 lot on eighth street.poor BMG.

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Harold Herskowitz
4/11/2013 08:14:50 am

I appreciate your support but this campaign, just like the last one, is NOT about BMG. I am running against bob singer who has been giving everything away to all his special interests. There are many other special interests besides BMG.

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Jason
4/11/2013 04:53:37 am

When will BMG wrestle the airport from Lakewood Township for zero dollars or just some peanuts?

BMG also had their sights on the Oak Street School building.

BMG was sucessful in getting the Township and the state to give them a parking lot near their school building on Tenth & clifton. Oh, they renamed it Downtown parking to fool the taxpayers.

BMG has their hand out for more from the politicians, how about the former public works property?

Keep it rollin

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Harold Herskowitz
4/11/2013 08:19:42 am

And it should also be understood that BMG is the single largest contributor to our local economy but yes there needs to be a fair balance.

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Berel
4/11/2013 09:48:06 pm

HH you are running now because Singer is on the hot seat for Birdsall (more to come). Singer wouldn't care to sing re: bmg as long as it reduces his crimes. BMG's Vaad is pretty much history. You have your own funding for the campaign, which is key-you owe no one anything

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And
4/11/2013 11:46:05 pm

Now there are 3

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Qualified and in need
4/12/2013 12:56:22 am

Harold, How can I get a job with your office when you get elected?

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I only shot the sheriff
4/12/2013 02:17:21 am

Me too. Can I be a Deputy something?

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mad moments
4/12/2013 06:43:49 am

apply at toys for thought by leaving your resume taped to the front door. good luck as there's already a waiting list!

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