It may come as a surprise to some Garden Staters that there is an election this year. In the General Assembly, all 80 seats are up for grabs, and there is one special state Senate election in South Jersey on Nov. 5. New Jersey is one of just five states that hold elections for statewide office in odd-numbered years. To understand why you have to go back to 1947. In that year, John Kolesar was just starting out as an undergraduate at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. One day, he went to pick