Bill Fey

Gloucester County Republicans last week picked a new freeholder candidate after Matthew Burns dropped out citing time constraints.

The county committee unanimously voted to support Chris Del Borrello who, like Burns, is 25-years-old.

“What you’re doing is replacing one young man with another,” said Gloucester County GOP Chairman Bill Fey.  

Del Borrello, who works for his family’s check cashing business, will join freeholder candidate Ron Brittin and sheriff candidate Chris Marerro in an uphill race against Democratic incumbents Joe Chila and Joseph Brigandi and Carmel Morina.

Elected Member of NJ Republican State Committee Speaks Out for His Constituents!

Is Christie running as a republican?

Clayton GOP Chairman Greg Meranshian Calls On Absentee Mayor To Resign

Fueled by a new letter to the editor written by Lee Lucas, Gloucester County Republican Committee Chairman Bill Fey today fired off his own missive to the embattled 3rd District Assembly candidate asking him to exit the race.

“Once again Mr. Lucas has decided to make insensitive remarks in a letter to the editor. As I’ve said before Lucas does not represent the rank-and-file of our Party and he needs to go," Fey said. “This time I am asking that Mr. Lucas keep his word and leave the Party.”

An anti-establishment Republican who rocked the GOP's world down here when he won the primary, Lucas earlier this summer confirmed published reports that he used the "N" word.

He then refused to budge under the statewide weight of party leaders calling for him to stand down. 

This week, in a letter to the editor of the Gloucester County Times, Lucas wrote, “Gentlemen of the Republican leadership: I can have nothing to do with you because you cannot, and will not, struggle against big oppressive government,” a snippet that Fey immediately seized on in trying to extricate his party from Lucas.

Lee Lucas to keep his word and drop out of Assembly Race

Chairman Fey accepts Lucas's offer to have nothing to do with the Republican Party

Gloucester County GOP Chairman Bill Fey

    Announces Executive Team  

Despite a growing chorus of GOP leaders disgusted by racist remarks police said he made, embattled Republican candidate Lee Lucas today refused to back out of his District 3 Assembly race. 

"It's not even a consideration, and I hope I make their blood boil," Lucas told PolitickerNJ.com. "I'm messing with the Republican leadership. I'm not only not going anywhere, I'm having fun. I'm doing the irish jig."

On learning that he used the N-word in 2006, State Republican Party Chairman Jay Webber, Assembly Minority Leader Alex DeCroce (R-Parsippany) and Gloucester County GOP Chairman Bill Fey all asked Lucas to immediately abort his run.

But the commercial cooking equipment repairman who defeated GOP establishment candidates Arthur Marchand and Gibbstown Mayor George Shivery in the June 2nd primary in this 2-1 Democratic district, said there's no way.

"I have a lot of supporters, I get a lot of phone calls of support - of course, they're all scared," Lucas said. "This is a mountainous wave of propaganda."

Homophobs are always hypocrites!

GOP State Assembly candidates Robert Villare and Lee Lucas have never met or spoken, according to Brandon Glurk, Villare’s campaign coordinator.

“They are not currently, nor were they ever running together,” Glurk told PolitickerNJ.com.  “Unfortunately, the state GOP was too incompetent to elect one of their own.  Therefore, Lucas is on the Republican ticket with Chris Christie and Bob Villare, but that is not by choice.”

Gloucester County GOP Chairman Bill Fey and Assembly Majority Leader Alex DeCroce (R-Parsippany) have called on Lucas to drop out of the race following reports of racially insensitive remarks.  DeCroce has said he will not fund the Republican challengers in District 3, even though some GOP strategists had viewed the two Assembly seats as winnable.

Lucas has not been invited to a rally in Gloucester County on Monday featuring Christie and Republican National Chairman Michael Steele.