{"id":11079,"date":"2017-06-06T23:52:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T03:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=11079"},"modified":"2017-06-06T23:52:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T03:52:33","slug":"brando-wins-gop-primary-will-face-ducey-for-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/06\/brando-wins-gop-primary-will-face-ducey-for-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Brando Wins GOP Primary, Will Face Ducey for Mayor’s Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mayor John Ducey and challenger Domenick Brando. (Campaign Photos)<\/p><\/div>\n

A former township councilman will challenge incumbent Mayor John Ducey this November.<\/p>\n

Domenick Brando bested his primary opponent, Martin Ebert, with 1,734 votes compared to Ebert\u2019s 724. Brando was endorsed by the official Republican organization, while Ebert ran as an \u201cindependent Republican.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to congratulate Marty,\u201d Brando said. \u201cHe ran a good campaign, did a lot of work and got out there. He\u2019s a good guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brando said he will release details about his campaign platform in the coming weeks, but pledged his goal is to make Brick the safest city in America again \u2013 a title the township once held.<\/p>\n

A former police officer, Brando said he is developing plans to reduce crime and tackle the ongoing heroin crisis that is affecting most of Ocean County\u2019s municipalities.<\/p>\n

Ducey, a Democrat who works as a local attorney, said Tuesday night he is ready for the race and plans on comparing his record over his first term to Brando\u2019s council tenure.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to run a great campaign based on what we have accomplished over the last three and a half years,\u201d said Ducey, adding Brando was on the township council when red light cameras were introduced at several intersections in town, and when a 24 percent tax increase was approved by voters and public works services were threatened.<\/p>\n

Brando said he and Ducey govern \u201cfrom two different trains of thought.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRight off the bat, he\u2019s got a huge surplus, and I think that money should go back to the taxpayers instead of just sitting in a bank account,\u201d said Brando. \u201cI\u2019ve been pretty vocal on some of his policies and the problems that we have in Brick with crime. I have a different plan and different views on how to fix it and stop it \u2013 getting the drug dealers and crime out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A former township councilman will challenge incumbent Mayor John Ducey this November. Domenick Brando bested his primary opponent, Martin Ebert, with 1,734 votes compared to Ebert\u2019s 724. Brando was endorsed by the official Republican organization, while Ebert ran as an \u201cindependent Republican.\u201d \u201cI want to congratulate Marty,\u201d Brando said. \u201cHe ran a good campaign, did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[2875,24,318,92],"class_list":["post-11079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brick-elections","category-government","tag-2017-mayoral-election","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-domenick-brando","tag-john-ducey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/brando_ducey.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2SH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}