Jack Ciattarelli picked up his second endorsement in as many days from an Ocean County Commissioner, adding Bobbi Jo Crea to his roster of supporters.
Crea has just twenty days left in her term; she did not seek re-election this year after losing party support for a second term last spring.
“Jack Ciattarelli has always been a friend to Ocean County,” she said. “He’s walked our boardwalks, met with our active adult communities, spent summers on Long Beach Island, and visited more diners than any candidate in history.”
Crea said Ciattarelli “has the right plan to cut and cap property taxes for our seniors.”
“He’ll stop the wind turbine projects off our Jersey Shore and will replace the broken school funding formula that has devastated so many of our local school districts,” she said. “We know Jack, we can trust Jack, and I look forward to working with him to win in November.”
Yesterday, County Commissioner Virginia Haines said she was also supporting Ciattarelli. Haines, Crea and Hazel Gluck, who was a freeholder from 1976 to 1979, are the only women to have served in elected county government posts.
Crea and another incumbent, Gary Quinn, dropped their re-election bids in February after losing a vote of the Ocean County GOP screening committee to Manchester Mayor Rob Arace and Berkeley Township GOP Municipal Chair Jennifer Bacchione. Arace and Bacchione take office next month.
Phil Ross, the Mahwah GOP municipal chairman, also endorsed Ciattarelli today.
“Jack Ciattarelli is the right candidate for New Jersey. He has his finger on the pulse of the many issues that face New Jerseyans,” stated Ross. “His position on the economy, parents’ rights, immigration, and crime are the ones to bring the state of New Jersey back to greatness and not the most fled state in the union.”
Ciattarelli won Mahwah with 62.5% of the vote in the 2021 primary, and carried the township by nine points in the general election against Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy