Thank You Murray Sabrin for Exposing the New Jersey GOP Corruption

Time For A Change in the NJ GOP Establishment
by: 'The Commish' A.J. Sparxx
http://www.gopusanj.com/wordpress/?p=1939

Voting in elections are not quite done yet before the grand finale in November for the general election. With the presidential primary in February and another primary just last week completed, sandwiching the April school board elections, the Republican Party hold their Municipal, (Monday), and County, (Tuesday), re-organization elections for Chairman and other executive positions.

I’d like to focus on the County GOP elections for Chairman, as they are more important then the Municipal Chairman and elections. That they are so powerful and important is part of the problem. The term “party-boss” is an acronym for County Chairman. These unpaid, volunteer jobs SHOULD be used for recruitment of county committee members, building the party and making the County a stronger Republican voting bloc. To many have ties to lobbyists or are lobbyists themselves.. IN DEMOCRAT SUPPORTING LAW FIRMS. Some have donated to Democrats while serving as Republican Chairman, others have run weak Republican to keep Democrats in control, for their own benefit.

What they have become are people who have abused and misused the office, have turned the position into contract and government job wielding carrots. The spotlight was really turned on them during the GOP US Senate carousel of candidates fiasco.

Are all of the 21 like this? No. But one would be too many and the GOP has more than one problem in their midsts with Chairman. So on Tuesday night, we already are aware of some changes that will take place and some challenges to current Chairman that may kick a few more elite party bosses out of the position of power.

In Monmouth County, the “One and Done” Chairman Adam Puharic will not be receiving his walking papers on Tuesday, he has seen the writing on the wall, and decided not to seek reelection as Chairman.

In his two year term, this was his best decision. Puharic was one of many Chairman who participated in the US Senate establishment debacle, obviously creating a problem with his rank and file, with his backing of Andy Unanue, and his idea of recruiting Rudy Giuliani to run in New Jersey for the US Senate. He also made the infamous statement that bloggers and those that read blogs, are like a form of mental retardation.

Up in Bergen County, another “One and Done” Chairman is facing extinction Tuesday night. Rob Ortiz was the mastermind behind the Andy Unanue recruitment and fiasco that followed. Besieged by fundraising problems and sparse attendance at BCRO sponsored events, he is facing a strong challenge from Bob Yudin, who may just have enough support to remove the Lobbyist Ortiz. I can only hope so, and I urge our Bergen County readers to support Bob Yudin for Chairman of the Bergen County Republican Organization.

Over in Hunterdon County, the US Senate race fiasco will probably stop the Chairman from winning reelection. While I don’t know that much about Chairman Henry Kuhl, I do know that his stunt before the primary to remove Joe Pennacchio from the line that he already previously won and replace him with Dick Zimmer was soundly rejected by voters, leaving Kuhl embarrassed and vulnerable for a challenge. And he has one in Mark Peck.

While there are others that should be challenged and deserved to lose, they will survive to continue their elitists ways for another 2 years, (George Gilmore of Ocean comes to mind). Speaking of Gilmore, there is an opposition movement to Gilmore who did very well in the last primary and probably cost Gilmore’s handpicked Congressional candidate Jack Kelly the win on primary day. There vote totals continue to improve election after election so I can only assume that shortly they will be strong enough and have enough support to challenge and beat George Gilmore.

The US Senate primary has opened up a lot eyes and exposed the behind the scenes wheeling and dealing that usually remains undetected and unreported. But there was so much public scrutiny during the process, thanks to blogs like Conservatives with Attitude!, that focused on the shenanigans, these people are now being held accountable for their actions finally and paying for them.