GOP Backs Incumbent Republicans for Bedminster Committee

The Bedminster Township Republican Municipal Committee has endorsed Bernie Pane and Staci Santucci to run again for township committee in the 2013 elections.

According to a release from the committee, the selection was made March 17.

“Bernie Pane and Staci Santucci have served honorably and well as elected public officials, and both have a proven track record of commitment and service to the citizens of Bedminster,” Republican Municipal Committee Chairman George Rodelius said in the release. “The Republican Municipal Committee is pleased to endorse them as our candidates for township committee in 2013.”

Pane has been a member of the committee for six years, and serves as committee liaison to the Department of Public Works, the Sewer Advisory Board, the construction code department, the zoning department, the municipal court, the Bedminster Hills Housing Corporation and the three Hills Master Homeowners’ Associations.

Pane, a more than 20-year resident of the Hills, is a co-owner of a title insurance agency and served as president of the Hills Master Association for 12 years before he first ran for office in 2006.

Santucci was chosen last month to serve on the committee to fill a vacancy left by .

Santucci currently serves as liaison to the environmental commission, Jacobus Vanderveer House, the Open Space Farmland Preservation Committee, the Historic Preservation Commission and Bedminster Fall Fest.

Santuci is an attorney, and serves as chief of staff for the Morris County Sheriff’s Office, as well as deputy executive director for the Sheriff’s Association of New Jersey.

Elections will be held in November.