Former New Jersey Assembly Member Jack Ciattarelli won the state’s gubernatorial primary on June 8. He will face New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy in the general election in November. Ciattarelli defeated former Somerset County Freeholder Brian Levine, pastor Phil Rizzo and businessman and perennial candidate Hirsh Singh. With 99 percent of the precincts reporting, Ciatterelli earned 49.6 percent of the votes, compared to 25.8 percent for Rizzo and 21.5 for Singh. Ciattarelli, 59, served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2011 to 2018. He lost a Republican gubernatorial primary in 2017 to then-Lieutenant Gov. Kim Guadagno. Guadagno went on to lose to Murphy in the general election. On the campaign trail, Ciattarelli called Murphy, a Democrat, an “extremist on the abortion issue” and called on the state’s legislature to rein in the governor’s executive powers. “Make no mistake, Phil Murphy has no problem hijacking our democracy and wielding the power of a king while making unilateral decisions without any regard …