Monmouth County forums put 2024 races in focus
Forums in Middletown and Hazlet provide candidates an opportunity to make their case before a must-win convention.
Monmouth County - Three senate candidates, a congressional candidate, and a popular Commissioner walk into a room at the Lakeside at Gramercy Manor, only twenty-four hours before Chairman Shaun Golden throws the gavel down in the state’s must-win Monmouth County convention.
Curtis Bashaw, Alex Zdan, and Christine-Serrano Glassner will each deliver their pitch to be the nominee for U.S. Senate. Political newcomer Scott Fegler, a local businessman and entrepreneur, will lay out the case for unseating the 37-year incumbent Frank Pallone, and hometown hero, County Commissioner Sue Kiley will make the case for he re-election to the all-red County Board.
The Hazlet forum comes on the heels of the Middletown forum hosted last Wednesday where the same candidates sans Kiley made their pitch. Middletown’s forum, the county’s largest municipality and largest delegation at the convention, was hosted by District 13 Chairman Tony Fiore and Middletown Republican Party Chair Peter Carton. Among the standing-room-only crowd, each Senate candidate laid out their vision for both their leadership in Washington’s upper chamber and what the future of the Republican Party in New Jersey could be.
For District 13 Chairman Tony Fiore, Middletown was a major barometer for candidates appealing to the average Republican voter. ”It is no secret that the Middletown Republican Organization continues to support candidates that share what we believe is the recipe for success both locally and at the state level,” he said.
Middletown’s recipe, per Fiore? “Strong, family-focused conservative leaders at all levels of government that strive daily to provide a better place to live, work and raise a family and are not afraid to fight Trenton and Washington when those freedoms and liberties are under pressure or attack,” he said. “We are hopeful that whoever represents us in November for US Senate will take that winning message statewide.”
Hazlet’s forum endeavors to give candidates access to Monmouth County’s bayshore communities, key voting blocs in the county convention on Thursday.
”We have two chances to take back the Senate and the House from long-standing corrupt Democrats, and a marquee County Commissioner race here in Monmouth, “ says Hazlet GOP Chair Gene Kiley, husband of the popular County Commissioner Sue Kiley, a former mayor of Hazlet.
”We’re honored to have these candidates here to make their case and demonstrate their willingness and readiness to save our country from the brink, and to keep Monmouth County the efficient, red county that residents love,” Kiley emphasized.
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