Franklin Lakes March 30, 2011 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 9 Republican Club nominates three council candidates by Frank J. McMahon The Franklin Lakes Republican Club has nominated three borough council candidates who will run in the June 7 primary election. Endorsements went to incumbent Councilwoman Paulette Ramsey, 40-year borough resident Joseph Kelly, and Councilman Charles Kahwaty. The terms of Councilwoman Ramsey and Councilman Michael Friscia will expire at the end of this year, but Friscia has decided not to seek reelection. As a result, the club nominated Kelly. The Republican Club also endorsed Kahwaty to seek election to fill the unexpired term of Mayor Frank Bivona, which will expire at the end of 2012. Bivona was elected to the council in 2009 and elected mayor in 2010. Bivona replaced former Mayor Maura DeNicola who was elected to the Bergen County Board of Freeholders. Peter Swist, the president of the Franklin Lakes Republican Club, advised that Friscia would have liked to have stayed on the council, but decided not to seek reelection due to the time demands on his family. Kelly is a former employee of the International Business Machine company. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Fordham University and master’s degree in finance from Wagner University. He served as a Lieutenant in U.S. Army and was assigned to the National Security Agency. He has served on the New York City Board of Education. He taught math and science at the DeWitt Clinton High School and at the Roosevelt Evening High School. In business, Kelly has senior marketing and brand management experience specializing in market assessment, competitive market analysis, new product introduction, and the development and implementation of marketing programs, with a strong financial background and experience in budgeting and execution of a financial plan for a brand with revenue, profit, and turnover objectives. At the Equitable Life Assurance Society, he was a mathematician and was in the actuarial program. At IBM, he was a programmer for telecommunications systems and a development manager for market support applications. He also had foreign assignments in England, the Asia Pacific area, and Latin America. In addition, he was the marketing manager for personal systems products, voice recognition software, and cross brand solutions, and the brand manager for consumer and mobile products. He currently serves as district director for a free income tax program for indigent people in Paterson, Clifton, and Passaic, and is vice president of Activities Unlimited, an organization of senior men based in Wyckoff. Swist said Kelly has 11 grandchildren and a wife in the real estate business, so the candidate understands the needs of the school system and local housing issues. “He is also a senior citizen and so he has a feel for what seniors face and he has lived in the borough for 40 years,” Swist said, “so he has the background and he has the time to devote to the council.” Ramsey will be seeking her sixth term on the council. She has served on the governing body since she was appointed in 1995, and was elected to her first three-year term in 1996. Currently the council president, Ramsey is a William Paterson University graduate and a former elementary school teacher in Ramsey, Upper Saddle River, and in the State of Illinois. For the last 43 years, Ramsey has been Outside is now open. Our outdoor furniture shop is now fully stocked active in the borough. She has been a member of numerous community organizations, served on the borough’s planning board and zoning board of adjustment, and has been active on the Franklin Lakes Town Fair Committee. Kahwaty was chosen by the council in February to fill the vacant seat left when Bivona was sworn in as mayor. Kahwaty has been vice president of the Republican Club. He is an attorney who was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1980 and has also been admitted to the U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, U.S. Court of Appeals, the Third Circuit Court, Tax Court, U.S. Supreme Court, District of Columbia, and the New York Bar. His practice areas include personal injury law, commercial litigation, municipal court law, driving while intoxicated cases, and collections. A graduate of the Seton Hall University School of Law with a JD degree in 1979 and Georgetown University with a bachelor’s degree in 1976, he is a member of the Bergen County Bar Association and was that group’s president from 2002 to 2003. He has also held several positions on the New Jersey State Bar Association and is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, the American Trial Lawyers Association New Jersey, and the Republican National Lawyers Association. 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