Joe DiBella has been showing up at Freeholder meetings and is using the party email list he acquired while running last year to promote his recent accomplishments as Mayor of Howell.
With Jeff Cantor's resignation from the ticket widely expected, speculation is growing that DiBella may have already been promised Cantor's spot on the ticket. He may have even been promised the spot prior to the nominating convention.
It is beginning to look more and more as though Cantor's candidacy has been a farce since February.
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that's a little risky, isn't it? DiBella could actually win. That would ruin Puharic's reputation. He needs to play it safe and go with Lucas again.
Lucas will get the nod.
I'm hearing DiBella too. I'm hearing South Jersey influence.
Give it up on the DiBella stuff already. You slimed him enough last year. They guy wouldn't even go for it now on a silver platter. Too bad he didn't make it last year because we would never have ended up where we are today.
So is the Monmouth GOP trying to hand the election to Dems?
Clifton and DiBella on a ticket.
Hey, you know what? I'm gonna keep my mouth shut. Adam, you just keep doing what you're doing.
DiBella will be a gift to the Dems.
Lets see - DiBella gets elected in Howell not once, but twice. Well spoken, fairly good looking, smart. Has shown some guts. Comes from a large town and other than the slimy anonymous attacks on the blogs is clean cut.....let me think, naah, why would we want someone that is electable? Naah, lets stick with the current plan. Things are going along so swimingly now - were riding high, right?
Joe is not running
Ronald Reagan said...
Joe is not running
Neither apparently is Jeff Cantor.
Time will tell whether DiBella is or isn't in the race. He's acting like a candidate, including denying he's running.
What I find most interesting is that no one is arguing with the premise of this thread, i.e., that Jeff Cantor is not running.
Unless he is going alone, NJ Units are not among those recalled recently by the DOD.
My voice is a little hoarse this week so instead of singing a song, I thought I'd ask Bill Maher to help us out with some New Rules for this year's campaign:
New Rule: Stop telling us that you are “independent” when you’ve been nominated by a political party. They nominated you because they know you’ll do what they want, not because of your good looks (when Ellen Karcher and Jen Beck pass as “hot women”, you KNOW no one has been nominated for their good looks).
New Rule: Don’t insult our intelligence by telling us how you’re going to cut the budget just as soon as you get to Trenton. No one is going to listen to a freshman assemblyperson or even a sophomore one, so the answer is, you’re going to do what you’re told to do.
New Rule: Please don’t send us those campaign pictures this year with you and your family. If your family life was so good, you wouldn’t be taking all of this time away from them to run for office.
New Rule: Spare us the campaign biography that says you were president of the student body or campfire girls or whatever you did before you grew up. You didn’t work a 50 million or 100 million or 500 million dollar budget in the campfire girls or on campus so we don’t care.
New Rule: We don’t care whether you’re pro-choice or pro-life. You’re not running for Supreme Court or for president, so it doesn’t matter. It’s not an issue you’re ever going to affect.
New Rule: If you don’t have any experience, don’t pretend you do. When you tell us you were the “assistant to an attorney who advised someone who represented a person who helped get a friend elected president of the republican club” you’re telling us you have no experience to tell us about. Trust me, we already know that.
New Rule: Stop getting your friends to post online that your opponent is gay. We’re living in Monmouth County. All of the residents here have been screwed up the rear by local politicians for years. We’ll just assume your opponent lives here too.
New Rule: Stop trying to convince us that your opponent is controlled by “special interests.” You are running a campaign. Unless you paid for it yourself, you are controlled by whatever special interest is paying for your campaign, even if it’s your county chairman. If you did pay for the campaign yourself, you’re an idiot and we don’t want you representing us anyway.
New Rule: We don’t want to hear that you are against crime, opposed to domestic violence, or will fight for more services and lower taxes. A crime by definition is already a violation of law – there’s not much more you can add to that picture. Since we don’t expect you to say you are for domestic violence, you’re not telling us anything. You can’t add services and cut taxes at the same time; at best you can “rearrange services” and replace one tax with another one that’s not as visible.
New Rule: Finally, don’t knock on our door and say “I want to be your committeeperson/councilperson/assemblyperson/senator or whatever.” You don’t want to be MY representative. You want the title. You don’t care whether I come with the package or not. But that’s ok, after all these years of campaign promises and lies, I really don’t care who my committeeperson/councilperson/assemblyperson/senator or whatever is. But the campaign literature is a lot of fun.
So is everyone going after Cantor now?
Navesink Rocks! said...
So is everyone going after Cantor now?
That's what we're trying to figure out, who the candidate is going to be after Cantor drops out.
Are you so sure that Cantor was not playing you because of your April Fools joke.
Anonymous said...
Are you so sure that Cantor was not playing you because of your April Fools joke.
Yes.
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