{"id":1887,"date":"2014-11-04T23:16:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T04:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2014-11-04T23:49:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T04:49:24","slug":"zapcic-defeats-brando-for-brick-council-cantillo-barton-win-seats-on-boe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/11\/zapcic-defeats-brando-for-brick-council-cantillo-barton-win-seats-on-boe\/","title":{"rendered":"Zapcic Defeats Brando for Brick Council; Cantillo, Barton Win Seats on BOE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Andrea Zapcic and Domenick Brando (Photos: File)<\/p><\/div>\n

Andrea Zapcic has defeated former Brick councilman Domenick Brando in her bid to remain on the township\u2019s governing body. Meanwhile, a surprise upset in the school board election has resulted in John Barton, who effectively did not run a campaign this year, beating incumbent board member Larry Reid. Current board president Sharon Cantillo retained her seat and won with a commanding victory.<\/p>\n

The final vote tally in Brick saw Zapcic besting Brando by 1,489 votes. But the school board election produced the night\u2019s biggest surprise, with John Barton, a oft-candidate who has never before scored a victory, beating incumbent Larry Reid by 842 votes to win a seat on the board. Reid, who has served one term on the board, garnered the fewest votes of any candidate, while his running mate, Cantillo, received the most votes of any candidate with 7,028.<\/p>\n

With Zapcic\u2019s victory, the municipal governing body will remain under a 7-0 Democratic control. Zapcic said the council in the next year will be focused on Sandy relief (\u201cgetting people back in their homes\u201d) and improving government efficiency.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy feeling is that people want to keep moving in the direction we\u2019ve been moving in,\u201d said Zapcic. \u201cI\u2019m driven by the desire to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for her victory, Zapcic said her time on council as an appointed member, combined with her previous stint as the township\u2019s recreation director and with B-MAC drove much of her support.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people knew me from the rec department, BMAC and a lot of those relationships helped me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Brando had sought to reclaim a seat \u2013 he lost in last year\u2019s council election \u2013 while Zapcic will now serve a one-year term (the seat vacated by Mayor John Ducey) and will have to run again next year if she wishes to stay on the council. Barton and Cantillo will each serve three year terms on the school board.<\/p>\n

Brando could not be immediately reached for comment.<\/p>\n[divider]\n

Final Vote Tally:<\/h3>\n

Brick Township Council
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Domenick Brando (R): 7,671<\/span><\/strong>
\n*Andrea Zapcic (D): 9,160<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Brick Township Board of Education
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*Sharon Cantillo: 7,028<\/strong><\/span>
\nLarry Reid: 3,798<\/strong><\/span>
\n*John Barton: 4,640<\/span><\/strong>
\nDavid Fischer: 4,489<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Andrea Zapcic has defeated former Brick councilman Domenick Brando in her bid to remain on the township\u2019s governing body. Meanwhile, a surprise upset in the school board election has resulted in John Barton, who effectively did not run a campaign this year, beating incumbent board member Larry Reid. Current board president Sharon Cantillo retained her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1427,"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":false,"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],"tags":[412,24,318,527,46,44,43],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brick-elections","tag-andrea-zapcic","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-domenick-brando","tag-election-2014","tag-john-barton","tag-larry-reid","tag-sharon-cantillo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/zapcic_brando.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-ur","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","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=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}