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Key Ocean county pols may be out in Stafford

June 7, 2018 11:09 amJune 25, 2018 4:30 pm

A slate of conservative insurgents running as Donald Trump supporters topped the Republican machine in Stafford Township on Tuesday, with the mayor and four incumbents on the township council losing the Republican primary. The defeat of mayor John Spadofora and...

GOP legislators endorse Singh

April 10, 2018 10:10 amApril 10, 2018 2:44 pm

Republican congressional candidate Hirsh Singh has picked up the endorsements of two Republican legislators from the Ocean County portion of New Jersey’s 2nd district. Assemblyman Brian Rumpf (R-Little Egg Harbor) and Assemblywoman DiAnne Gove (R-Long Beach) join the Ocean County...

In Memoriam

March 18, 2018 2:15 amMarch 18, 2018 2:16 am

Gene Ritchings, who founded the Ocean County Young Republican Club in the 1940’s, passed away on March 15. He was 91. Ritchings ran for the State Assembly twice in the 1950’s in GOP primaries against incumbent Lettie Savage. He ran...

Ocean County line goes to Kim, Welle and Van Drew

March 11, 2018 4:58 pmMarch 12, 2018 12:49 am

Ocean County Democrats have endorsed former Obama White House staffer Andy Kim to run against Rep. Tom MacArthur, Josh Welle to take on Rep. Chris Smith, and State Sen. Jeff Van Drew as their candidate for the seat being vacated...

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,...

Hugin wins Ocean County

March 6, 2018 10:14 pmMarch 6, 2018 10:14 pm

There’s no real news here: Bob Hugin won the endorsement of the Ocean County Republican Organization tonight in his bid for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate. “Ocean County delivers the highest number of Republican votes of any county in...

GOP businessman urged to seek House seat

February 1, 2018 7:17 pm

A trucking company executive with close ties to former Gov. Chris Christie is being courted to run for Rodney Frelinghuysen’s congressional seat in New Jersey’s 11th district. Jerry Langer, who served on Christie’s presidential campaign finance committee and on his...