{"id":5772,"date":"2015-08-12T05:29:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T09:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=5772"},"modified":"2015-08-12T00:20:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T04:20:30","slug":"toth-to-be-replaced-on-brick-council-ballot-suspended-from-county-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/08\/toth-to-be-replaced-on-brick-council-ballot-suspended-from-county-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Toth to be Replaced on Brick Council Ballot, Suspended From County Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5773\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/toth_brick.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5773\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/toth_brick.png\" alt=\"Dan Toth (Campaign Photo)\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/toth_brick.png 600w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/toth_brick-400x266.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Toth (Campaign Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick Township council candidate Dan Toth will submit a letter to the Ocean County Clerk on Wednesday asking his name be removed from the November election ballot, officials within the Republican party said.<\/p>\n<p>Ocean County Republican Chairman George Gilmore confirmed to Shorebeat that Toth would end his candidacy in light of charges of aggravated criminal sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child that were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/08\/breaking-dan-toth-in-custody-on-child-sex-assault-charge\/\">filed Monday after an allegation was made<\/a> by a 15-year-old boy in Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Dan is going to have to put all his efforts toward fighting these charges, and there\u2019s no way he can be running in an election and have something like this hanging over him,\u201d said Brian DeLuca, Brick Township Republican Municipal Committee chairman.<\/p>\n<p>DeLuca said the township\u2019s Republican organization would gather its county committee members from each voting district and select a new candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a mechanism for selecting a candidate,\u201d DeLuca said. \u201cIt happens from time to time for all kinds of reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>County officials told Shorebeat that Toth had been suspended from his job as a warehousing specialist.<\/p>\n<p>County spokeswoman Donna Flynn said Toth was suspended without pay on Tuesday while the charges pend. Toth\u2019s position with the county carried a salary of $32,150.<\/p>\n<p>Toth was one of four Republican candidates hoping to retake the township\u2019s governing body from its current all-Democrat majority.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/08\/toth-to-be-replaced-on-brick-council-ballot-suspended-from-county-job\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick Township council candidate Dan Toth will submit a letter to the Ocean County Clerk on Wednesday asking his name be removed from the November election ballot, officials within the Republican party said. Ocean County Republican Chairman George Gilmore confirmed to Shorebeat that Toth would end his candidacy in light of charges of aggravated criminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5773,"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":[15,2],"tags":[24,1153],"class_list":["post-5772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brick-elections","category-government","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-dan-toth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/toth_brick.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-1v6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772","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=5772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}