Thursday, April 26, 2012
The probable Republican nominee for U.S. president attends a political fundraiser on Bernardsville mountain.
The actual event was a political fundraiser for state Sen. Joe Kyrillos, a Republican and Middletown resident who wants to replace Democrat Bob Menendez in the U.S. Senate, but the reason for all the security, traffic and reporters outside a private home in Bernardsville on Wednesday afternoon was the awaited arrival of Mitt Romney. Romney, the likely Republican nominee for this year's presidential race, arrived about an hour after the scheduled start of the $5,000-a-plate campaign event at the house of attorney Edward Deutsch. The Somerset County sheriff's department, with its canine unit, a few cars and officers from the Bernardsville police department and Secret Service had already secured the entrance to the home on Dryden Road prior …
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Presidential hopeful to attend fundraiser for U.S. senator candidate Wednesday in Bernardsville.
Just one month after U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez lured the country's vice president to a local fundraiser at a private home, his challenger is bringing a big name of his own to the area. A $5,000-a-plate fundraiser for State Sen. Joseph Kyrillos (R-Monmouth), a Middletown resident, will be held Wednesday at the home of a Bernardsville attorney that will feature Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. "We are grateful for Governor Romney’s support for Senator Kyrillos' campaign against Bob Menendez," Kyrillos' campaign manager, Chapin Fay, wrote Tuesday in an email to Patch. Kyrillos represents District 13, which includes Oceanport and Little Silver. Menendez held his own high-profile event last month in a Morris Township home where …
Friday, April 13, 2012
An effort to have President Barack Obama's name removed from New Jersey's primary ballot was dealt a setback following an administrative judge's recent ruling.
Update: Lt. Governor Upholds Judge's Decision on Obama's Eligibility In what attorney Mario Apuzzo is calling a "sham of justice," a state judge has ruled against objectors seeking to remove President Barack Obama's name from New Jersey's upcoming primary ballot. According to Apuzzo, the attorney representing New Jersey residents Nick Purpura and Ted Moran, Deputy Director and Administrative Law Judge Jeff Masin ruled against the ballot challenge following a more than three-hour hearing earlier this week. His decision, delivered to Apuzzo via email, was not based on the issues presented in the challenge, namely that Obama is not a natural born citizen of the United States and that a birth certificate released by the White House last April …
Monday, April 9, 2012
Two men, including a Monmouth County resident, are challenging President Barack Obama's placement on the state's primary ballot.
Two New Jersey residents, including one from Monmouth County, are challenging President Barack Obama's place on the state's primary ballot, according to the Bayshore Tea Party Group. Nick Purpura, of Monmouth County, has filed a challenge along with Ocean County resident Ted Moran alleging that Obama has never shown adequate proof that he was born in the United States - despite the release of a longform birth certificate by the White House in April of 2011 - and that his father was never a citizen of the United States, meaning Obama is not a natural born citizen, at least according to their interpretation of the Constitution. The challenge will be heard by an administrative law judge Tuesday at the Administrative Law Offices in …
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Won election after Howell Mayor Robert Walsh conceded in second round of voting
A unique election cycle came to an end on Saturday morning when Holmdel Deputy Mayor Serena DiMaso resigned to be sworn in as the newest member of the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders. Saturday's election at Colts Neck High School was voted on by members of the Monmouth County Republican Committee with a total of 486 ballots being cast in the first round. Needing 50 percent of the vote plus one more to gain a majority, DiMaso garnered exactly 243 votes to force a second round of voting. Her closest competitor, Howell Mayor Robert Walsh, who was a distant second with 140 votes, conceded the election before the second round of voting was completed. DiMaso said after the election she was looking forward to taking on this latest …
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Incumbent Rosemarie Peters won a second five-year term in the seat.
Even after losing his challenge for the Monmouth County Surrogate's office to incumbent, Middletown resident and former Mayor Rosemarie Peters, Michael Steinhorn maintains that he raised awareness concerning a public office about which most voters know little. Peters, however, had said that she spoke to more than 50 groups in the past year in an effort to better educate people on the function of her office and how to make the best use of it, by offering help on how to better understand getting your estate in order. It's an initiative in which she takes particular pride. Steinhorn, all through the campaign, denounced the effectiveness of Peters’ communication and accountability techniques, methods that Peters and others saw as her strengths…
Here are the latest figures as reported by the Board of Elections
Mahon to serve second term as mayor, Kahle and Gallo return to council.
It will be four more years for Oceanport Mayor Michael J. Mahon, who won his second term in office by a mega-landslide Tuesday, taking nearly 98 percent of the vote. However, that's being a bit facetious, as Mahon only faced competition from the write-in column. Of the 914 residents who came to cast their ballots for mayor, 892 chose Mahon, and 22 wrote in someone else. Incumbent Republicans Ellynn Kahle and Council President Richard Gallo fared just as well, easily reclaiming their council seats and fending off the write-ins, of which there were only 17. Gallo won 901 votes, and Kahle took 859. Council members in Oceanport serve three-year terms.
The referendum calls for the amendment of the state constitution which would allow sports gambling at Monmouth Park and other facilities.
Voters approved a statewide referendum Tuesday that will change the state constitution to enable the legalization of gambling on professional and certain college sporting events -- but only if a current federal ban is overturned. The amendment carried 65 percent of the vote, to 35 percent in opposition. About 69 percent of Monmouth County voters approved the question. The amendment was supported by Oceanport Borough, home of Monmouth Park racetrack, as well as Gov. Chris Christie and State Senator Raymond Lesniak (D-Union), who argues that once the referendum is approved, it will only be a matter of months before the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) is ruled unconstitutional. Monmouth Park racetrack is Oceanport's …
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Strong voter turnout as Republican edges out Independent. Democrat O'Hern re-elected to council, to be joined by Republican Mihlon.
Republican Robert C. Neff, Jr. defeated Independent Dan Levine by 378 votes to be elected as the new mayor of Little Silver Tuesday. In an election that featured 1,984 of the borough's approximately 6,000 residents voting for mayor, Neff took 59 percent with 1,180 votes, and Levine not far behind at 40 percent, or 802 votes. Incumbent Democrat Daniel O'Hern, Jr. and Republican Dane Mihlon were elected to borough council. O'Hern garnered the most votes with 1,114, Mihlon got 1,054, and Independent Jennifer Pardee finished with 676 votes. "There are just so many people to thank, I'm going to call people until my battery dies," an ecstatic Neff said shortly after the results became official around 9 p.m. Tuesday. "I have an awful lot of …
Joe
8:25 am on Sunday, May 6, 2012
Oh you mean the bus where the drivers work 4 hours a day and get 20.00 per hour plus a pension and full time health benefits and then can retire with health benefits for the rest of their lives? That bus? GOOD! more ›