{"id":12537,"date":"2018-04-04T22:44:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T02:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=12537"},"modified":"2018-04-04T22:44:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T02:44:36","slug":"uncontested-primaries-for-ocean-county-freeholder-surrogate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2018\/04\/uncontested-primaries-for-ocean-county-freeholder-surrogate\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncontested Primaries for Freeholder, Surrogate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9617\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9617\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9617\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/vbooth-400x262.jpg\" alt=\"New Jersey voting booth. (File Photo)\" width=\"400\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/vbooth-400x262.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/vbooth.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Jersey voting booth. (File Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The county freeholder primary race is uncontested, with Republican incumbents and Democrat challengers each filing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year, two seats on the all-Republican Freeholder Board are up for grabs, with longtime incumbents John Bartlett of Pine Beach and Gerry Little of Surf City each filing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Democrat candidates for freeholder are Teddy Price of Blue Sea Lane in Toms River and Vince Minichino of Coolidge Drive in Brick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Price unsuccessfully ran for Toms River Council in 2015; this is his first run for the county seat. Minichino is also making his first run for the freeholder spot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Voters will also decide the county surrogate this November. The June primary is also uncontested for this seat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Republican incumbent Jeffrey Moran of Pine Beach is seeking another term. Democrat Kieran Pillon Jr., a lawyer from Island Heights, has filed to run. Pillon unsuccessfully ran for county clerk in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The filing deadline for each party\u2019s primary passed April 2; the deadline for independent candidates is closer to the election.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The primary will take place June 5; the general election is set for Nov. 6.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2018\/04\/uncontested-primaries-for-ocean-county-freeholder-surrogate\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The county freeholder primary race is uncontested, with Republican incumbents and Democrat challengers each filing. This year, two seats on the all-Republican Freeholder Board are up for grabs, with longtime incumbents John Bartlett of Pine Beach and Gerry Little of Surf City each filing. The Democrat candidates for freeholder are Teddy Price of Blue Sea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":9617,"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":[15,2,12],"tags":[3290,42,3291],"class_list":["post-12537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brick-elections","category-government","category-ocean-county","tag-2018-election","tag-election","tag-freeholders"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/vbooth.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-3gd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12537","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\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}