{"id":746,"date":"2017-04-04T11:48:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T15:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=746"},"modified":"2017-04-04T11:48:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T15:48:06","slug":"toms-river-gop-faces-primary-challenges-candidates-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/04\/toms-river-gop-faces-primary-challenges-candidates-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River GOP Faces Primary Challenges, Candidates Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_276\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-276\" class=\"size-full wp-image-276\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/toms-river-town-hall.jpg\" alt=\"Toms River Township municipal building. (Credit: WOBM)\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/toms-river-town-hall.jpg 630w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/toms-river-town-hall-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toms River Township municipal building. (Credit: WOBM)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Longtime Ward 1 Councilwoman Maria Maruca has her party\u2019s support for re-election, however she is facing a primary challenge within the GOP ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Maruca, of Waters Edge Drive, is being challenged by\u00a0Chris Grimes, Nautilus Drive, and Justin Lamb, Buermann Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Her Democratic opponent will be\u00a0Anthony Colucci, of Coolidge Avenue in Ortley Beach, a street that was particularly devastated during\u00a0Superstorm Sandy.<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent GOP Councilman Kevin Geoghegan, of Daisy Road, will seek re-election to represent Ward 2, and is being challenged by Democrat\u00a0\u00a0Daniel Rodrick, of 10th Street.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, incumbent GOP Councilman\u00a0Jeffrey Carr will seek to retain his Ward 3 seat, with a challenge coming from two competing Democrats \u2013\u00a0Laurie Huryk, of Marlane Road; and\u00a0Wendell Ferandos, of Jasam Court, are both seeking their party\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n<p>GOP incumbent\u00a0Alfonso Manforti, of Lakehurst Road in Ward 4, is seeking re-election and will fend off a challenge from Democrat\u00a0Terrance Turnbach, a local attorney.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Republicans control all seven council seats as well as the mayor\u2019s office in Toms River.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/04\/toms-river-gop-faces-primary-challenges-candidates-announced\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Ward 1 Councilwoman Maria Maruca has her party\u2019s support for re-election, however she is facing a primary challenge within the GOP ranks. Maruca, of Waters Edge Drive, is being challenged by\u00a0Chris Grimes, Nautilus Drive, and Justin Lamb, Buermann Avenue. Her Democratic opponent will be\u00a0Anthony Colucci, of Coolidge Avenue in Ortley Beach, a street that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[296,11],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","tag-election-2017","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/toms-river-town-hall.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}