The Monmouth County Democrats nominated the following candidates at their convention today, according to spokesman Mike Mangan:
For Freeholder:
Middletown Township Committeeman Sean Byrnes defeated former Neptune Mayor Mike Beson for the nomination.
For Assembly, 11th District:
Rich Bolger, a Brielle Councilman and Randy Bishop, the Mayor of Neptune, were nominated uncontested.
For Assembly, 12th District:
Manalapan Township Committeewoman Michelle Roth and Tinton Falls teacher John Amberg, also uncontested.
For Assembly, 13th District:
Jim Grenafege, a candidate for Township committee last year, defeated Matt Morehead, Chairman of the Monmouth County Bayshore Young Democrats, for the Monmouth County seat on the ticket. Robert Brown of Old Bridge, will represent Middlesex County on the slate. By tradition, Monmouth and Middlesex Counties each have a candidate in the district which includes portions of Old Bridge and the Monmouth County Bayshore.
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three huge breaks for the republicans this year. The freeholder candidate has a total of one year experience on a township committee. One of the twelfth district candidates never ran for anything before and the other has more baggage than Imelda Marcos relocating her shoes.
The democrats will be providing no money to the twelfth. Neither Lynch nor Lesniak will contribute any monay or allow any of their people to do so. They both have too much money invested in Roth now and need her to continue returning their investment. As a freshman senator she can't do anything for them.
sorry, that's freshman assemblyperson, not senator. In any event, they want her to stay in Manalapan where she can continue to protect their real estate interests.
I wonder if this means young Matt will rage back to the GOP, after his own party snubbed him for whats his name when they realized he was a nut.
Curley will beat Byrnes, in Middletown and throughout the county. Hopefully those opposition research folks who did a great job against Walsh are gearing up against Byrnes. Byrnes will need to pray for a lot of crossover votes, Corzine is dead meat in Middletown and throughout Monmouth.
Question for all the Dem Candidates - Where do you stand on COAH?
Upset that the Republicans in your town took away your stipend and cost you a year of service in the state pension system? Run for Freeholder where the pay is higher to make up for what you lost. One has to wonder what is Byrnes payoff for running? Obviously it worked for Very Silent Glenn Mason.
Byrnes has a very good resume. It will be a dogfight for sure.
It is the worst kept secret in Monmouth County that the only reason Byrnes ran in the first place is because the Democrats promised to make him a judge. He has missed more meetings in his first year than the rest of the committee combined. This guy is out for one reason - to pad his own pension. He has a big family with a lot of college tuitions to pay for. This is simply a career move on his part. Just to show you how beholden he is to the Democrats - he acknowledges to his friends that Walsh is a nut, yet goes out of his way to help her get elected. That's putting one's own interests above the good of the taxpayers.
Sean Byrnes, a joke??? How can he run Monmouth County when he cannot run his own Legal Practice.
How many malpractice suits against him?
To the anonymous reader who wanted to post an anti-christie link...I'm not posting that here.
Get me the original unedited version of the interview.
The site you linked to is an anonymously regsistered site and disclaims any responsiblity for accuracy on it's home page. This blog will not be used to promote such a site.
Feel free to come back with credible material.
glad it wasn't Beson, all we need is more Dem "heavy-hitter" intrusion in our county!..but then again, Amy Mallet had zero experience at anything other than losing, before the debacle last year, that gave us the current tyranny that is going on!..better hope Curley wins, but if he doesn't, expect a 13th Dem lawyer appointment to the county roster, they've shown they take faster, better care of their own cronies, after three years of pretending/saying that they won't!!..
Ummm we keep talking about Lynch like he is not in prison.
What you think he is running the party from his cell
anonymous 7:47 - what's this about malpractice suits against Byrnes?
art - no clue where the original is maybe you can find it - if i see it i will send it- it is probably archived with adubato somewhere
believe it'll be every district and local race for themselves, don't count on the NJGOP,for sure, and hopefully, the county squeaks by..even as bad as things may look in April for the D's, you gotta respect/fear/plan for their ability to raise/wheel $, shape/disseminate/repeat their phony baloney mantras, and then knock,drag, beat, or steal the votes they need, while some R's sit on the sidelines,contribute zero, then arrogantly go to lunch on Election Day..here's a challenge for the "old" and "new" for '09: how about if we agree to put aside the inter-party nonsense,focus, and win a whole darn slate in Monmouth, like in the nostalgic, old days of winning, huh, folks??..
the answer to the question about how many malpractice suits there are against Sean Byrnes is -- NONE. I just researched it. There is no record of any such suits. We shouldn't have any trouble beating the democrats this year, especially with their virtually forfeiting the twelfth district by putting the most vile, hated, incompetent woman in Monmouth County as the lead candidate. We really don't need to resort to democratic party tactics to do so.
Keep underestimating the woman Democrat who's popularity allowed her to win by over 500 votes last year in Manalapan --- a town that voted overwhelmingly for Republicans McCain and Zimmer.
it's impossible to underestimate Michelle Roth. She is by far the worst mayor/township committeewoman Manalapan has ever had. She has made soooo many enemies including one in particular with a knack for influencing assembly races with Manalapan participants, that she doesn't have a prayer. Her "victory" last year is meaningless. Joe Locricchio beat her by 2400 votes in 2004, so her winning by 500 as a sitting mayor doesn't count for much. People in Manalapan know she wouldn't have won at all if municipal chairman McEnery hadn't sabatoged his own party's opposition to her. There'll be no sabotage this November because the republicans aren't going to let McEnery anywhere near the campaign. She'll have to run on her own. Wait until you see the margin by which she loses this year. She'll beat Lucas' record by far.
these discussions serve to highlight just how volatile the township of Manalapan is, to both the 12th district and the whole county race,once again.... with yet another knock-down, drag-out going to happen at their local level, the warring factions can very much influence whether Curley squeaks by and whether 2 assembly seats are re-elected.. much concern for Manalapan.. again, PLEASE, Republicans: use all that passion and the personal issues to FOCUS on the goal and DELIVER the vote for the GOP!!!..
this year is different. There is no "war" any more in Manalapan. McEnery is marginalized. He has three followers, none of whom ever contributed materially to any election victory. All the workers are united and McEnery and his "war" won't be a factor. As long as no one at the County level is dumb enough to resurrect him by doing something stupid.
Not one comment on the 11th? What a shame.
Art does a great job covering the whole county. But his readers are really just the north.
A perfect reflection of Monmouth County politics.
Trivia question: Will this be the first openly gay candidate to run county-wide?
No. That was done three years ago.
How bad did Morehead get beat & which candidate is openly gay?
After 21 years and counting in office, Pallone's endorsement of Beson had about the same effect that Pallone has had for the 6th district.
Mayor Bishop is openly gay. They did not announce the vote totals so no one knows how much Morehead lost by.
Randy Bishop the formar Neptune mayor,(dist.11, Tom) has a life-partner and is open about it..so does the new office on aging director at county..and, what/why would the county do to "resurrect" the Manal. chair?.. he's there in title unless and until his own county committee replaces him next year, as with any chair.one would hope they're starting to gear-up to run a credible freeholder race that gets rid of the Dem majority!....until then, hope the crew all rows in the same direction and is results-(winning)oriented!..
Moorehead lost 44 to 8. Did Joe Caliendo support Moorehead?
Beson lost 156 to 41. Did Joe Caliendo support Beson?
Apparently during Byrnes victory speech, he praised Ed McKenna throughout it.
Roth went after the Manalapan police chief last week. He is a great cheif and respected by all. All except Michelle Roth who is still upset that he supported the Republican Candidate promoting an anti-pedofile law. (Miracles Law)
Last year Roth with the help of Republican/Democrat Andrew Lucas voted to have the police chief report directly to the administrator. Now, Roth is going after the police chief to fullfill her promise to make him pay for what he did to her campaign.
If the voting numbers are correct, why was there only 52 votes in the Morehead race, but 197 in the Freeholder race. Was everyone not allowed to vote on the assembly races?
There was no Byrnes victory speech... and those vote totals are wrong
response to anonymous 1:37 - because only delegates in the 13th district can vote for 13th district candidates. Similarly, district 12 candidates are voted by delegates who live in district 12, same for 11 etc. Freeholder candidates are voted by the entire delegation.
Let me tell you how disgustingly dishonest this deviant woman is. In her newspaper interviews and on 101.5 (I understand there is a tape available of that Friday interview) she said that it was a "joke" and even the Italian township committee member laughed. There is also a tape that the Italian American Club has that shows he did no such thing. It was a blatant lie -- another blatant lie from a person who's hardpressed to tell the truth about anything.
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