{"id":11492,"date":"2017-08-22T12:30:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T16:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=11492"},"modified":"2017-08-22T12:30:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T16:30:59","slug":"citing-health-reasons-brando-drops-out-of-brick-mayoral-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/08\/citing-health-reasons-brando-drops-out-of-brick-mayoral-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Citing Health Reasons, Brando Drops Out of Brick Mayoral Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1765\" style=\"width: 498px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-30-at-8.02.50-PM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1765\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1765\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-30-at-8.02.50-PM.png\" alt=\"Domenick Brando (File Photo)\" width=\"488\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-30-at-8.02.50-PM.png 488w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-30-at-8.02.50-PM-400x436.png 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-30-at-8.02.50-PM-366x400.png 366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Domenick Brando (File Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Republican Brick mayoral candidate Domenick Brando has dropped out of the race, he told Shorebeat this week.<\/p>\n<p>Brando said health reasons led to him to bow out of the campaign against incumbent Democratic Mayor John Ducey, who is running for re-election after serving one term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, it\u2019s something I have to do,\u201d Brando said.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said former Councilwoman Ruthanne Scaturro is the most likely candidate to replace Brando in the race. Scaturro served on the Brick Township council from 2003 through 2011.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/08\/citing-health-reasons-brando-drops-out-of-brick-mayoral-race\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Brick mayoral candidate Domenick Brando has dropped out of the race, he told Shorebeat this week&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1765,"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":[2875,24,318,940],"class_list":["post-11492","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-ruthanne-scaturro"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-30-at-8.02.50-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2Zm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11492","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=11492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}