With no state or countywide races to propel Democrat and Republicans to the polls, only 5.9 percent of the county’s 365,288 voters took time to nominate candidates for the November general election to fill 12 Legislative seats and one on the freeholder board in Tuesday’s primary election.
There were no contests for party nominations for any of the races to narrow the field for Legislative seats in four districts and a seat on the all-Republican freeholder board.
An off-year election already expected to bring few voters to the polls saw only 13.6 percent of the county’s 103,300 Republicans and 9.95 percent of 74,543 Democrats cast ballots, according to unofficial returns from Ocean County Clerk Scott M. Colabella.
Voters were left with a sprinkling of local contests to generate interest in the election.
In the e, already off to a , Republican incumbent Joseph H. Vicari, a former Dover Township mayor elected to the board in 1980, got 12,041 votes. Michele Rosen, the Democrat, a former member of the Dover Township Committee who now lives in Waretown, received 6,345 votes, according to unofficial results.
Both candidates have been on the attack for weeks, for receiving pensions and salaries at the same time from his freeholder post and job as Berkeley Township Superintendent of Schools, while on Rosen’s personal financial legacy, which includes a dismissed indictment for theft by deception, a bankruptcy, foreclosure and string of bounced checks.
While well-organized Republicans fielded a full slate of candidates Tuesday, no Democrats filed nominating petitions in Tuckerton, Barnegat Light, Bay Head, Eagleswood, for the Lakehurst Council, in Ocean Township, Plumsted, Seaside Heights, Seaside Park, Tuckerton and Lavallette. Democratic write-in votes were cast in all those contests, so the vacant spots can be filled if those who got those votes accept the nomination.
Now in November you can vote for the socialist, woops there I go again, I mean democrat that's on the ticket. What happened to freedom of speech???? That ended with the dumbing down of America through our government controlled education system. The dumber people are the easier they are to control. As evidenced by people that don't understand how our elections work and the masses that chose not to vote so they put control of their life into the usually stupid people that are elected. Democrats have controlled the legislature in NJ for how long? NJ pretty much bankrupt?? So how do voting in more dems fix anything? You must be on the public dole and don't want to contribute to your benefits, right? Well, the private industry has been paying THOUSANDS if not their entire bill for benefits for years now. "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other peoples money". Well the time has come, there are not enough PRIVATE industry employees paying taxes to foot the bill anymore. Keep the dems in and I hope the state pension etc does go bankrupt which it eventually will.
How s the Bush tax cuts working for Jobs Frank? 69 million for 4700 kids Frank hows that working out for the kids or the tax payers Frank feel free to explain to us about corp greed and subsidies Tell us all about capitalism and how it worked out for enron lucent bear stearns lehman brothers banks
any idea how much bob nardelli of hd got? please wake up piney repukes corp greed is the real terrorist along with republicon sheep