Dan Rodrick Archives - New Jersey Globe

Middletown school district moves to fire Toms River mayor from teaching role (updated)

February 18, 2025 5:53 pmFebruary 20, 2025 11:23 am

This article was updated Feb. 20 to include comment from Rodrick. A Middletown school district filed to fire Toms River Mayor Daniel Rodrick, who works in the district as a middle school teacher. The school district accused Rodrick of taking...

Rodrick ally wins Toms River GOP council primary

June 5, 2024 6:19 amJune 5, 2024 3:07 pm

In a race for an unexpired term on the Toms River Township Council, William Byrne scored a decisive victory in a race for one-year unexpired term. Byrne won the Ward 2 Republican primary by with 60% of the vote against...

Development is the issue in Toms River mayoral race

October 17, 2023 7:06 pm

Following a bruising Republican primary that saw an incumbent mayor defeated, Democrats are trying to maneuver an upset in an otherwise staunchly conservative town. The mayor’s race in the state’s eighth-largest municipality is pitting controversial two-term Republican Councilman Daniel Rodrick...

Kim smacks Toms River candidates for anti-Semitic statements

July 27, 2021 6:06 pmJuly 27, 2021 11:36 pm

Rep. Andy Kim (D-Moorestown) has called out a Republican councilman from Toms River for a dog whistle campaign mailer that depicted a fur hat worn by an Orthodox Jew that some view as a bid to blame overdevelopment on the...

Lavallette mayor endorses Rodrick in Toms River

June 3, 2019 8:47 amJune 3, 2019 10:30 am

Lavallette Mayor Walter LaCicero, a longtime critic of former Ocean County Republican Chairman George Gilmore, has endorsed Dan Rodrick for mayor of Toms River in tomorrow’s GOP primary election. “For nearly fifteen years, as the Mayor of Lavallette, I have...

Judge orders Hill to get his share of joint campaign account

May 17, 2019 5:46 pmMay 17, 2019 9:14 pm

A Superior Court judge has ordered the treasurer of a joint election committee to pay Toms River mayoral candidate Mo Hill $25,930 by noon tomorrow. The fundraising committee was a joint effort with mayor Thomas Kelaher and councilmen George Wittman...

With Gilmore gone, Hill wants his share of old campaign account

April 25, 2019 10:53 am

Mo Hill wants George Gilmore’s replacement to unfreeze more than $100,000 in campaign funds sitting in an account that bears his name. A four-term councilman, Hill is seeking the Republican nomination for mayor of Toms River, challenging the organization-endorsed candidate...