# Celebrity hairstylist Martino Cartier seeks Gloucester County commissioner seat in New Jersey

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/flamboyant-celebrity-hairstylist-who-renamed-himself-martino-cartier-now-running-as-gop-commissioner-candidate/
- Published: 2026-10-28T21:05:53+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-28T21:17:38+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16245597/Flamboyant-celebrity-hairstylist-renamed-Martino-Cartier-running-GOP-commissioner-candidate.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Art, Celebrity, Culture, Entertainment, Health, Medicine, World

## Key points

- Martino Cartier is running for Gloucester County commissioner as a Republican.
- The hairstylist also runs a foundation supporting women affected by cancer.
- His campaign includes a dispute over a past car-related conviction.

## Summary

Celebrity hairstylist Martino Cartier, 51, is running as a Republican candidate for Gloucester County commissioner in New Jersey. His campaign brings his public profile and community work into local politics, alongside a dispute over a past car-related conviction and criticism of a county official.

Cartier owns a salon in Washington Township and a foundation that supports women affected by cancer. He appeared on a 2008 reality television programme, has more than 25,000 Instagram followers and previously described being $300,000 in debt while keeping his salon afloat. He is campaigning against Jim Jefferson, Joann Gattinelli and Matthew Weng, and says he would seek to remove county administrator Stephen Sweeney; Cartier says he pleaded guilty to theft by deception over a car, repaid the money and that the matter was later administratively dismissed.

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