Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli, 59, has a connection to Long Beach Island. He started visiting LBI in his college days back in the 1980s; then his sister “settled on LBI,” he said. He eventually followed suit.

No, he didn’t move to the Island full-time. His primary residence remains in Hillsborough Township, Somerset County, only about a 10-minute drive from both Somerville borough where he was born in December 1961, and Raritan, where he was raised.