Joseph Buckalew Archives - New Jersey Globe

Gilmore appointed Board of Elections successor hours before he resigned

May 16, 2019 5:24 pmMay 17, 2019 9:11 am

George Gilmore named his own replacement on the Ocean County Board of Elections during his final hours as county chairman, but his pick was torpedoed by a onetime ally, freeholder chair Virginia Haines. Gilmore resigned his seat on the Board...

Ocean GOP has no succession plan

January 11, 2019 12:33 am

Just when New Jersey Republicans thought things things could not can any worse, the head of the only big county GOP machine left in the state just got indicted. George Gilmore has been the boss in Ocean County since 1996,...

Carol Buckalew Dies

March 11, 2018 11:55 amMarch 11, 2018 5:47 pm

Carol Buckalew, the wife of civic leader and prominent political insider Joseph Buckalew for 62 years, passed away on March 9. She was 85. She was a New Jersey delegate to the 1984 Republican National Convention, pledged to Ronald Reagan,...