Pat Walsh

Warren Township Deputy Mayor Victor Sordillo

Warren Township Deputy Mayor Victor Sordillo may pursue a run for the seat veteran Somerset County Freeholder Rick Fontana is vacating at the end of his term this year.

“I have not ruled out running at this time,” Sordillo told supporters in a Tuesday night email. 

The 2007 candidate for freeholder and 2008 candidate for U.S. Congress said he plans to meet with Somerset County Republican Party Chairman Dale Florio to determine a course of action.

“If I can add something to the field of candidates by stimulating ideas and debate, I will enter the contest,” said Sordillo. “If I believe that the choices are sufficient to ensure the strength of the party, I will become an observer and supporter this year.”

MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP (MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ): According to Middletown Democrat for Township Committee Jim Grenafege, Middletown Mayor Gerry Scharfenberger used his Monmouth University E-mail account to campaign for Middletown Republican candidates for the governing body

MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP (MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ):  According to Middletown Democrats for Township Committee Patricia Walsh and Jim Grenafege, they join Middletown committeemen Patrick Short and Sean Byrnes in opposition to the Town Center project in the township.

In Monmouth County, every town comes intriguingly into play on some level, several more critically than others.

Republicans have owned the Freeholder Board for over 20 years, but in the last two elections Democrats picked up two seats to bring them to within one of county control.

A profusion of newly registered Democratic voters have boosted the party’s confidence heading into Nov. 4th, and now Democrats Amy Mallet and Glenn Mason are ready for that 11th hour jolt of cash from the Democratic State Committee.

State Party Chairman Joseph Cryan wants to win here.

He wants it more than he would like to pick up additional warm bodies in the Assembly next year, where his party’s already built a comfortable majority.

A victory by either Mallet or Mason would make a Democratic Party statement.  But neither is a name candidate running against incumbent Freeholder Director Lillian Burry and auto dealer vice president John Curley, an intensely focused campaigner who served as a Red Bank Councilman and has close political connections to state Sen. Jennifer Beck (R-Monmouth).

MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP (MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ): More than two years ago, Middletown Committeeman Patrick Short was elected to the governing body with a mission.

“Government cannot be about politicians—it has to be about the residents of Middletown,” Short said.

Middletown Democrats Use Bogus Ocean County-Based PAC To Wheel Bundled Middlesex County Vendor Contributions

MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP (MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ): The fact that the Republican-controlled Middletown Committee covered up contamination beneath Town Hall and the Middletown Cultural Center, respectively, is not in dispute.

MIDDLETOWN – Middletown Township Committee Candidate Tony Fiore today made the following statements in response to Middletown School Board Member Pat Walsh’s explanation regarding her unreported $30,000 gift that she now claims to have repaid after calling the accusation a “lie” earlier this week.

MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP (MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ): According to Middletown Democrat for Township Committee Patricia Walsh, she left Middletown Republican Chairman Peter Carton's Republican party because of "personal attacks, the likes of which he is launching against me right now."

A petition drive, sponsored by Republicans James Cody, Kathleen Bjelka and Anthony Testa, was begun Oct. 8. The petition erroneously claims that Walsh "accepted a $30,000 gift." In addition, the petition singled out Walsh as having raised "taxes more than any official in Middletown history." In fact, the petition distored Walsh's record, the candidate said, and is a typical "dirty trick" to distract the good people of Middletown from the real issues, such as taxes and affordability.

MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP (MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ): According to Middletown Democrat for Township Committee Patricia Walsh, she left Middletown Republican Chairman Peter Carton's Republican party because of "personal attacks, the likes of which he is launching against me right now."

A petition drive, sponsored by Republicans James Cody, Kathleen Bjelka and Anthony Testa, was begun Oct. 8. The petition erroneously claims that Walsh "accepted a $30,000 gift." In addition, the petition singled out Walsh as having raised "taxes more than any official in Middletown history." In fact, the petition distored Walsh's record, the candidate said, and is a typical "dirty trick" to distract the good people of Middletown from the real issues, such as taxes and affordability.