Jennifer Beck

Beck is a former Republican Party fundraiser who served for six years on the Red Bank Borough Council, from 1999 to 2005. She holds a B.A. from Boston College (Physics and Mathematics) and was awarded an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (Government Administration). Beck is also an alumna of the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania.{{Citation needed|date=November 2011}}

Beck won a very close Assembly election on November 8, 2005. As of December 6, 2005, she was declared winner of one of the seats, and was the top vote getter in the District with 31,418 votes. Democratic freshman Assemblyman Michael J. Panter won re-election with 30,466 votes, narrowly edging Beck's running mate, Declan O'Scanlon, who had 30,401 votes, just 65 fewer than Panter. One-term incumbent Robert Lewis Morgan lost his bid for re-election, coming in fourth with 30,228 votes. Two Green Party candidates each received about 2,000 votes.Quirk, James A. [http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_docid=10E6D247D8EC6EA0&p_docnum=3&p_queryname=NaN&p_product=NewsBank&p_theme=aggregated4&p_nbid=T53G5ACRMTE4NTg0NzQ0OS4yODY4NjU6MTo3OnJhLTE4ODg "O'Scanlon concedes defeat to Panter INCUMBENT SECURES VICTORY BY 73 VOTES"], Asbury Park Press, December 7, 2005. Accessed August 1, 2007. "Panter, who beat O'Scanlon by a 73-vote margin, will return to Trenton next year with Republican Jennifer Beck, who received the most votes in the election. Assemblyman Robert Morgan, Panter's running mate, received the fewest votes."

While in the Assembly, Beck served on the Judiciary Committee, the State Government Committee and the Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee.[http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/BIO.asp?Leg=303 Assemblywoman Beck's legislative web page], New Jersey Legislature. Accessed February 21, 2008.

In the 2007 general election, Beck won her bid for a seat in the New Jersey Senate in a race against incumbent Democrat Ellen Karcher, in which Beck was outspent by a nearly seven-to-one margin.[http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071106/POLITICS/71106076 Beck wins; Dems control both houses]{{Dead link|date=October 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Asbury Park Press, November 6, 2007. Accessed November 6, 2007. For the 2011 elections, Beck was moved into the 11th District where she beat Democrat Raymond Santiago by over 13 points. She was subsequently reelected by over 21 points in 2013 beating Democrat Michael Brantley and independent Marie E. Amato-Juckiewicz. Beck served on the Joint Committee on Economic Justice and Equal Employment Opportunity, the Budget and Appropriations Committee, and the Community and Urban Affairs Committee.{{cite web |url=http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/BIO.asp?Leg=351 |title=Senator Jennifer Beck |website=New Jersey Legislature |access-date=July 3, 2015}}

In November 2008, a petition was launched to urge the 2009 Republican nominee for Governor of New Jersey to select Beck as his/her lieutenant governor. Nevertheless, on July 20, 2009, nominee Chris Christie announced that he had chosen Kimberly Guadagno, Monmouth County sheriff, to complete his campaign ticket as a candidate for lieutenant governor.{{Cite news |last=Ruth |first=João-Pierre |title=Chris Christie picks running mate |newspaper=NJBiz |date=2009-07-20 |url=http://www.njbiz.com/article.asp?aID=78684 |access-date=2009-07-23 |archive-date=2010-02-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100205143822/http://www.njbiz.com/article.asp?aID=78684 |url-status=dead }}

Described by NJ.com as "perhaps the biggest upset of the night", Beck lost her bid for re-election in 2017 to Democratic challenger Vin Gopal, in what was the third-most expensive of the 120 legislative races statewide, with total spending in excess of $4 million.Sullivan, S. P.; and Johnson, Brent. [http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/11/nj_election_results_2017_democrats_increase_contro.html "N.J. election results 2017: How the dramatic legislative races shook out"], NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, November 8, 2017. Accessed November 9, 2017. "In perhaps the biggest upset of the night, former Monmouth County Democratic Chair Vin Gopal unseated veteran Republican state Sen. Jennifer Beck in the 11th District along the Jersey Shore.... The candidates and outside special interest groups spent more than $4 million on the race -- the third-most of any legislative election this year." The district had been represented only by Republicans since 1992. With the addition of heavily Democratic communities like Asbury Park in the 2011 apportionment, Democrats gained a 32%-23% margin over Republicans in numbers of registered voters. Democrats Joann Downey and Eric Houghtaling won the two Assembly seats in 2015 and Gopal's win over Beck by an Election Day count of 28,750 votes to 25,108 put all three District 11 seats in the hands of Democrats.Napoliello, Alex. [http://www.nj.com/monmouth/index.ssf/2017/11/vin_gopal_upsets_incumbent_jennifer_beck_in_hotly.html "Vin Gopal upsets incumbent Jennifer Beck in hotly contested Dist. 11 race"], NJ Advance media for NJ.com, November 7, 2017. Accessed November 9, 2017. "According to unofficial results from the Monmouth County Clerk's Office, Gopal defeated Beck 28,750 votes to 25,108 votes.... This Shore district was once completely controlled by Republican lawmakers, but it saw a shift two years ago when Democrats picked up both its Assembly seats. And in redistricting, District 11 picked up Democratic towns such as Asbury Park. Democrats outnumber Republicans 32 percent to 23 percent in the district."

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| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| votes = 31,308

| percentage = 53.6

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| candidate = Jennifer Beck (incumbent)

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| votes = 27,150

| percentage = 46.4

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| votes = 58,458

| percentage = 100.0

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|party = Republican Party (United States)

|candidate = Jennifer Beck (incumbent)

|votes =30,531

|percentage = 60.0

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|party = Democratic Party (United States)

|candidate = Michael Brantley

|votes = 19,735

|percentage = 38.8

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|party = For the People

|candidate = Marie E. Amato-Juckiewicz

|votes = 599

|percentage = 1.2

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|winner = Republican Party (United States)

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|party = Republican Party (United States)

|candidate = Jennifer Beck (incumbent)

|votes = 20,226

|percentage = 56.6

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|party = Democratic Party (United States)

|candidate = Raymond Santiago

|votes = 15,487

|percentage = 43.4

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{{Election box hold with party link without swing|

|winner = Republican Party (United States)

|loser = Democratic Party (United States)

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|party = Republican Party (United States)

|candidate = Jennifer Beck

|votes = 26,743

|percentage = 53.9

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|party = Democratic Party (United States)

|candidate = Ellen Karcher (incumbent)

|votes = 22,844

|percentage = 46.1

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|winner = Republican Party (United States)

|loser = Democratic Party (United States)

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|

|party = Republican Party (United States)

|candidate = Jennifer Beck

|votes = 31,418

|percentage = 24.8

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|

|party = Democratic Party (United States)

|candidate = Michael J. Panter (incumbent)

|votes = 30,466

|percentage = 24.0

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = Republican Party (United States)

|candidate = Declan O'Scanlon

|votes = 30,401

|percentage = 24.0

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = Democratic Party (United States)

|candidate = Robert Lewis Morgan (incumbent)

|votes = 30,228

|percentage = 23.8

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = Green Party (United States)

|candidate = Ann Napolitano

|votes = 2,303

|percentage = 1.8

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|party = Green Party (United States)

|candidate = Judith Stanton

|votes = 2,052

|percentage = 1.6

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{{Reflist}}

• [http://jenniferbecknj.com Senator Jennifer Beck's Official Website]
• [http://beck.senatenj.com Senator Jennifer Beck's Official Senate Site]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090105185139/http://district12.senatenj.com/ 12th Legislative District Official Site]
• [http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/BIO.asp?Leg=303 Senator Beck's legislative web page], New Jersey Legislature
• New Jersey Legislature financial disclosure forms
• [http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/BeckJ2016.pdf 2016] [http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/BeckJ2015.pdf 2015] [http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/BeckJ2014.pdf 2014] [http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/BeckJ2013.pdf 2013] [http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/BeckJ2012.pdf 2012] [http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/BeckJ2011.pdf 2011] [http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/BeckJ2010.pdf 2010] [http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/BeckJ2009.pdf 2009] [http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/BeckJ2008.pdf 2008] [http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/BeckJ2007.pdf 2007] [http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/BeckJ2006.pdf 2006] [http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/BeckJ2005.pdf 2005]
• [http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/58104 Jennifer Beck], Project Vote Smart

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