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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

GOP Incumbents Sweep Ocean County Races

Little, Bartlett, Polhemus cruise to re-election

Republican incumbents coasted to re-election Tuesday night, preserving the GOP's control of the freeholder board and sheriff's office. Voters re-elected longtime GOP freeholders Gerry Little and John C. Bartlett Jr. and Sheriff William L. Polhemus by wide margins, with 99 percent of votes reported at 11:30 p.m. Unofficially, Little and Bartlett captured 111,630 votes and 117,495 votes, respectively, far exceeding the totals recorded for Democratic candidates Joseph Grisanti (74,261) and Pat Barndt (71,738). Independent challengers Scott Newman and Tracy Caprioni each struggled to capture 1 percent of votes cast, with 3,510 and 3,828 votes, respectively. Polhemus will enter his 28th year in office in 2013 after garnering nearly 56 percent …

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Monday, November 5, 2012

Where Is The Sheriff?

Longtime Ocean County Sheriff William L. Polhemus has been purposely kept out of the limelight long before Hurricane Sandy Hit

Flashback to August 2011. Ocean County Emergency Management officials and municipal coordinators from most of the 33 towns gathered at Robert J. Miller Airpark to discuss the rapidly advancing Hurricane Irene. Freeholder Joseph H. Vicari was at the dais, along with Capt. Michael A. Armstrong from the Ocean County Sheriff's Office, the late Undersheriff Wayne R. Rupert and a host of other officials. But one person wasn't there. The county's chief emergency management coordinator had been carefully excluded from the meeting. That's because - according to top sources - they didn't think Polhemus would be able to handle the press conference. The 84-year-old sheriff has been a no-show throughout much of 2012. Berkeley Patch contacted his office…

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Longtime Ocean County Sheriff Faces Two Challengers In Bid For Tenth Term, Polhemus Won't Debate With Democratic Opponent (in Berkeley Patch), SHERIFF'S RACE: Two Talk About Overtime Cuts; One Doesn't Talk At All, and 1 more ›

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foggyworld

8:39 pm on Sunday, November 18, 2012

There is another way to try to get rid of him. Next ballot have a referendum that will really stick out and maybe people will wake up. This is plain waste. The other approach would be to eliminate the entire department and spread the few jobs they do to other organizations already in place.   more ›

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