{"id":11725,"date":"2017-10-23T04:03:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T08:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=11725"},"modified":"2017-10-23T04:04:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T08:04:17","slug":"democrats-outspend-gop-17-to-1-in-brick-mayor-council-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/10\/democrats-outspend-gop-17-to-1-in-brick-mayor-council-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Outspend GOP 17-to-1 (So Far) in Brick Mayor, Council Race"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John Ducey (D) and Ruthanne Scaturro (R). (File Photos)<\/p><\/div>\n

Mayor John Ducey has outspend his challenger by a mammoth 17-to-one margin so far this election season, state campaign finance records show.<\/p>\n

Ducey, a Democrat, spent $69,677 on his re-election campaign through Oct. 10, data from the state Election Law Enforcement Commission shows. Ruthanne Scaturro, his Republican challenger, has spent just $4,464, according to the same records.<\/p>\n

The mayoral campaign spending also includes the election costs for three open township council seats. As it currently stands, all seven members of the council are Democrats. A Republican has not won a seat on the council so far this decade.<\/p>\n

Ducey\u2019s ticket, which includes incumbent council members Paul Mummolo, Marianna Pontoriero and Heather deJong, has also handily out-fundraised the GOP ticket, which includes council candidates John Ciocco, Lois Turner and Marilyn Lago. The Democrats have raised $86,384 compared to the Republicans\u2019 $22,375.<\/p>\n

The campaign finance reports show a monumental diversion from most of the local government campaigns in Ocean County, where the normally well-funded Republicans have control of every municipality except Brick, as well as the county freeholder board.<\/p>\n

Ducey\u2019s top donors have included\u00a0Adams Rehmann & Heggan Associates, a civil engineering firm that donated $1,500 and the\u00a0International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers PAC, which donated $1,300. A number of other organizations, including the unions representing sheetmetal workers, plumbers and pipefitters, and the campaign for state Assemblyman \u00a0Troy Singleton (D-Burlington) contributed smaller amounts.<\/p>\n

The Republican ticket generated funding from a company linked to the\u00a0R.C. Shea & Associates law firm, of Toms River, as well as the law firms of\u00a0Dasti Murphy Mcguckin Ulaky Koutsouris & Connors, of Forked River;\u00a0Berry, Sahradnik, Kotzas & Benson, of Toms River; and Kelaher, VanDyke and Moriarty, of Toms River. The Republicans also received donations from the engineering firm Remington, Vernick and Vena. The Remington firm was the GOP\u2019s top donor, at $5,000.<\/p>\n

Ducey was first elected mayor in 2013. Scaturro is a former township council president.<\/p>\n

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Mayor John Ducey has outspend his challenger by a mammoth 17-to-one margin so far this election season, state campaign finance records show. Ducey, a Democrat, spent $69,677 on his re-election campaign through Oct. 10, data from the state Election Law Enforcement Commission shows. Ruthanne Scaturro, his Republican challenger, has spent just $4,464, according to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11726,"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":[2875,24,2764,92,940],"class_list":["post-11725","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-election-2017","tag-john-ducey","tag-ruthanne-scaturro"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/pjimage.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-337","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11725","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=11725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}