Camden GOP chair faces challenge for re-election

Camden County Republican Chair Kimberley Stuart will face a challenge in her bid for re-election to a second term from Jason Fanning, the Gloucester City GOP municipal chairman.

In the race for vice chair, incumbent Brandon Glikas, a Winslow councilman, faces a challenge from Danielle DiBruno, who filled nearly all of the 48 county committee seats in her hometown of Cherry Hill.  DiBruno is running with Fanning.

Stuart ousted incumbent Thomas Crone in 2024 by a vote of 92-61, a 60%-40% margin.

She faced criticism last year after shutting down the GOP organization’s public Facebook page and replacing it with a private group for county committee members who agreed to a sort of gag order  Stuart also took heat for refusing admission to the convention to county committee members who had not attended at least three of the last seven monthly meetings – all held at bars in what some have dismissed as glorified happy hours.  An estimated 60% of elected Republican county committee members were barred from voting at the convention.

A former Haddon Heights school board member, Stuart lost a 2025 bid for borough council by a more than 2-1 margin.  He is a former assistant counsel to two New Jersey governors, Christine Todd Whitman and Donald DiFrancesco

The Camden GOP filled 206 of the 312 county committee seats headed into the June 2 primary election.  Eleven municipalities didn’t file any county committee candidates: Audubon Park, Brooklawn, Camden City, Gibbsboro, Hi-Nella, Lawnside, Lindenwold, Magnolia, Runnemede, Woodlynne, and Tavistock.

The vote is scheduled for June 29.

Crone was elected in 2022, defeating Nicole Nance by a vote of 59-42.  He replaced Richard Ambrosino, who did not seek re-election after five years as county chairman.

Ambrosino won a February 2017 special election for county chairman to replace Thomas Booth, Jr.  Booth had resigned to become a Superior Court Judge.