Ewing GOP taps Mayor Jack Ball to make another run

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

By JOAN GALLER
Staff Writer

EWING — As expected, incumbent Mayor Jack Ball last night won the Ewing Township Republican
Committee’s nomination to run for another four-year term as mayor on the GOP ticket in November.

The party faithful who gathered for their convention at Erini’s Restaurant elected Ball and incumbent GOP
Councilman Don Cox by acclimation.

Judith Peoples, who ran unsuccessfully for council in 2008, was picked to run for the four-year council
seat now held by incumbent Democrat Kathleen Wollert.

If he’s victorious in November, this will be Ball’s fourth term as Ewing’s mayor. He served two one-year
terms as mayor in 1992 and 1993 under the former Township Committee system, where his fellow
committeemen picked the mayor, not the electorate.

The township changed to the mayor/council form of government in 1995, and Ball won his third term in
2006. He is now in the final leg of that four-year term.

Cox, the lone Republican on the Democratic-controlled Township Council, is running for his second four-
year term.

“Being mayor is a huge obligation which I enjoy immensely,” Ball said afterwards. “I thank the committee
members for their unanimous support and look forward with relish to the fall election.”

Cox chimed in. “Under the leadership of Mayor Ball, Ewing has seen its debt reduced by over $7 million,
overtime cut by over 50 percent, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings on insurance premiums.
I look forward to another four years of savings for the taxpayers of Ewing.”

Peoples said “Don Cox needs a second on council so that important issues are not ignored. Lopsided
government does not serve the voters well.”

Peoples was nominated by her 2008 running mates, Ron Prykanowski and Aldo Genovesi.

“Each member of our slate garnered over 5,500 votes in the 2008 election that sent Barack Obama to the
White House,” Prykanowski said in a prepared statement. “In any other year, it is likely that all three of us
would have been elected. We were happy to nominate Mrs. Peoples and look forward to a winning year.”