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OC A-3 A2 Asbury Park PressWednesday, February 4, 1987 epublican wins special vote for 12th District seat S.k -1 mm en i i t.i i is jff vntnur himfri Tfcf r-, ift Xi 1- irti Bearing up low- and moderate-income housing under the state Supreme Court's Mount Laurel rulings. Politicians of both parties attributed the result to the number of absentee ballots cast for Mrs. Farragher. The Republicans sent out two letters with absentee ballot applications to registered Republicans. The Democrats sent one similar letter to registered Democrats, then followed up with telephone calls.

The 12th District is made up of 22 Monmouth County municipalities concentrated in the western portion of the county. Although there are more registered Democrats than Republicans, the district traditionally elects Republican legislators. William F. Dowd, county Republican chairman, said, "In a district in which Democrats outnumber the Republicans by almost 30 percent, it's clearly the Republican organization which had the right people and the right candidates. The Democrats apparently just didn't get the vote out" John R.

Fiorino, county Democratic chairman, said, "We underestimated the difficulty of getting out the vote. Republicans tend to vote in a higher percentage. We have to work harder, we didn't work hard enough." However, Fiorino said, "This election no way reflects what could happen in a general election." Republican legislators, such as Assembly Majority Leader Chuck Hard-wick, R-Union, said Mrs. Farragher's election was a victory over special-interest groups. Mrs.

Reich was supported by several unions, including the state AFL-CIO and the New Jersey Education Association. Assemblyman John O. Bennett III, R-Monmouth, said of Mrs. Farragher, "People recognized her as someone willing to work for all the people, not just the special interests." Mrs. Farragher won easily in her hometown of Freehold Township, 953 to 556, while Mrs.

Reich won big in Manalapan Township, 960 to 289. The Republicans attributed the Manalapan vote to the mostly Democratic, Jewish voters in the Covered Bridge development. Mrs. Reich is Jewish. Mrs.

Reich also gained a wide margin in Roosevelt, 128 to 11, and her hometown of Freehold, 601 to 350. Mrs. Farragher won easily in Colts Neck Township, 321 to 110, and in Holmdel Township, 301 to 56. Mrs. Farragher probably will be sworn in Monday in Trenton.

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toll anas caH free Circulation 1 -800-822-9775 Classified 1-800-822-8988 News, other offices 1-800-822-9770 Freei the ksbary Park area, ar free) Ml el state, call: Classified 1-201-922-6050 Circulation 1-201-922-6080 News, other offices 1-201-922-6000 Corporate Officers Monmouth County prosecutor fires 4 workers for cocaine use Associated Press Kaye would not say how he discovered the women were using the illegal drug, but said no drugs were found for investigators to test The woman who was wired with the microphone to gather evidence against her boyfriend gave a statement implicating the other three women after she was beaten, the prosecutor said. Although he doesn't have enough evidence to charge the four fired employees with drug use, Kaye said, he has the authority to fire them. Kaye said he warned his employees at a staff meeting yesterday that drug use will not be tolerated at home or in the office. i' The firings, Kaye said, act as a "reminder (to the rest of the staff) in case some people who work here may think when they are on their own, that's their own time." Opposing lawyers argued after Cunningham admonished defense lawyers for failing to give him the results of tests administered to Jackson last month. After the jury was dismissed for the lunch break, tempers flared.

Public Defender William Graves said Cunningham "has gotten away with murder without being rebuked." "Are you saying I am failing to be Superior Court Judge Peter J. Giovine asked. "Yes," Graves said. "I am shocked by your accusation," Giovine said, adding defense lawyers were free to send a transcript of the trial to anyone they wanted. Giovine ordered defense lawyers to provide Cunningham with the results of whatever tests were administered to Jackson.

Marucci said they would comply with the order of the court. Giovine said lawyers on both sides know the rules and he expected the rules to be followed. 1 were, were dismissed on Friday, he said. "Cocaine use won't be tolerated," he said. As part of an ongoing investigation into the activities of the suspected drug dealer, the man's girlfriend was wired with a hidden microphone in an attempt to have him unknowingly incriminate himself, Kaye said.

The man discovered the microphone and beat the woman, Kaye said. No charges have been filed against the man, whom Kaye identified only as a significant drug dealer in western Monmouth County. The four women were part of the 78-member clerical staff in the prosecutor's office. Kaye has 230 employees. Of 230 employees, Kaye said, finding four who used cocaine is "not too bad." but the rage kept building up.

Donner said Jackson quit that job and got another one. The loss of a woman he had fallen in love with in East Chicago had a great effect on Jackson, according to Donner. The woman, Joyce Williams, was ill when Jackson met her and he started taking care of her and her two daughters. But Ms. Williams died in August 1984, and the father of Ms.

Williams' two girls took them away. He said this upset Jackson and led to his moving to Lakewood. Under questioning by Cunningham, Donner testified Jackson did not have sex with Mrs. Levithan. "Basically, he is impotent," Donner said.

The psychologist also told Cunningham he could not predict whether Jackson would kill again if he were released in 30 years. But Donner did say personality disorders like the one Jackson suffers from can be treated. By JOYCE DE CRAY Press Freehold Bureau FREEHOLD Republican Clare Farragher won a special election yesterday for a state Assembly seat in the 12th District by 930 votes mainly because of the number of absentee ballots cast in her favor. Her opponent. Democrat Lynn Reich, a Freehold Borough Council member, vowed to run for the seat again in the November general election.

Mrs. Farragher, a Freehold Township Committee member, received 6,321 votes, while Mrs. Reich received 5,391 votes. About 11 percent, or 11,712, of the 103,695 registered voters in the district went to the polls. Mrs.

Farragher received 1,022 absentee ballots; Mrs. Reich received 435. The seat was formerly held by Republican Marie S. Muhler, who resigned to become the state's public guardian for senior citizens. "Well, I'm glad the special election is over, and I'm looking forward to working with the other area legislators," said Mrs.

Farragher, a homemaker who has four daughters. "I think (the victory) is an indication the public approves the programs initiated by the Republican majority (in the Assembly)." Mrs. Farragher said she looks forward to running for a full, two-year term in November and to "a traditional campaign season." "The only thing that was missing (in this election) was the direct contact with the people," she said. Mrs. Reich, 37, said, "We lost the first round.

I wish my opponent well in her time in the Assembly. (But) watch out in November. "I want to serve in the Assembly," added Mrs. Reich, an art teacher. "I like to work with people, and I think I would do a good job.

I said all along that I was interested in running (for the Assembly) in November." Mrs. Farragher, 45, said she would first devote herself to learning the issues of whatever Assembly committee she is assigned to. In her campaign, she stressed insurance reform and transportation problems as key issues. She favors a 5-cent increase in the gasoline tax to fund road projects, such as the completion of Route 18. Mrs.

Farragher, who served on the Freehold Township Committee for five years, including one year as mayor, also supports a bill to cut in half each municipality's obligation to provide Clinic From page Al VA's general counsel, said the agency has that authority. Added Gronvall: "If we decide to construct our own facility, we will request construction funds in a subsequent budget," Smith said later the VA could "accelerate the process." He has again introduced legislation specifically authorizing the VA to provide the clinic. Smith won passage of such a measure as an amendment to a veterans benefits bill in the House last year. However, the provision was dropped in a House-Senate conference to resolve differences between the veterans bills both chambers passed. Smith blames Sen.

Alan Cranston, for blocking the clinic legislation in conference. Sen. Frank Murkowski, R-Alaska, then Senate Veterans Affairs Committee chairman, told Smith Cranston objected to having clinics built through legislation instead of giving the VA the discretion to decide where they should be located. Others say Cranston acted out of partisan motives so as not to give a Republican credit for the project just before an election, Smith said. A proposal to locate an outpatient clinic at Vineland Hospital is gathering support, Smith said.

But he contends a clinic in Ocean County would serve a greater number of patients. Members of the task force that is trying to lure the clinic to Brick Township had originally planned to meet with the VA in January, but agreed to postpone the meeting until members could come up with several worthwhile sites for the clinic, said Lazroe, the task force chairman. Although Lazroe would not be more specific, he said the location would be in the township's hospital support zone. Lazroe said he was aware of efforts to place the VA clinic in Vineland. He said Brick would be a better location because of its central location in New Jersey and its access from the Garden State Parkway and Interstate 195.

"It's more difficult to get to Vine-land than it is to get to Newark," he said. Many area veterans must now travel to a VA facility in Newark to take advantage of their benefits. Press staff writer John M. Giase contributed to this story. Press Staff Report FREEHOLD Four clerical workers in the Monmouth County prosecutor's office have been fired for using cocaine, including one woman who was the girlfriend of a suspected drug dealer, Prosecutor John Kaye said yesterday.

No charges will be pressed against the four, however, because the drug use took place about a year ago and there is not enough evidence to seek an indictment against the fired employees, Kaye said. Although the four used cocaine last year at least one time inside a women's rest room in the Monmouth County courthouse Kaye said he did not discover the drug use until recently. The four, whom Kaye refused to identify or say what their specific duties ther died when Kevin was 4 years old. Dormer said Jackson's rage against his mother increased when she saw other men and had more children. "Kevin misperceived her (Ms.

Levi-than) as a loose woman," Donner said, an image Jackson had of his mother because of the time she spent with men. He said Jackson has an IQ (intelligence quotient) of 80. Vilif Jackson, 23, pleaded guilty Sept. 19 to the stabbing death of Mrs. Levithan, a 51 -year-old teacher at Veterans Memorial School, Brick Township, in her apartment on Fairway Villas Court, Lakewood.

Jackson lived in an apartment about 50 feet away. Jackson moved to Lakewood to live with Robert Hussey, a Lakewood teacher, in 1984. Donner said Jackson had begun drinking when he was 13 years old and by the time he was 19, he was drinking a quart of whiskey and 12 cans of beer a day. He said Jackson got a job at a department store and stopped drinking, GOING OUT OF BUSINESS! J) Rage From page Al Jackson at the county jail Sept 9 and consulted with other specialists before reaching the conclusion that Jackson has a severe mental disorder. Calling Jackson "extremely unpredictable," Dormer said the defendant "had uncontrollable rages at times.

He clearly does have a serious mental disorder." He said Jackson developed a hatred of his mother after she favored his twin brother, Kim, over him. Dormer said Jackson did everything he could around their house in East Chicago, to gain his mother's favor. But, according to Dormer, his mother neglected Kevin and beat him and the other children. Kim went to live with another family in a better section of East Chicago. Jackson's fa REBATES ON SELECTED MODELS LESTER GLENN BUfff.lSUItj TOMS RIVER JERSEY DISCOUNT OIL CO.

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