2012 Year in review: June

Anna Little won the GOP primary for Congress in the 6th Congressional District and filed her FEC reports as a candidate for U.S. Senate.

In a prelude to the Democratic Chairman’s race, Democratic nominee for Freeholder William Shea lost county committee race. Shea and his running mates, Kevin Lavan for Freeholder and Michael Steinhorn for County Clerk, were prominent supporters of Marlboro Council President Frank LaRocca in the Democratic Chairman’s race.

Vin Gopal defeated LaRocca to become Monmouth County Democratic Chairman. The 27 year old businessman and former candidate for Assembly in the 11th Legislative District won with 73% of the votes.

After a hard fought campaign, former State Senator John Bennett defeated State GOP Committeewoman Christine Hanlon for the Monmouth County GOP Chairmanship by 3 votes of the 615 cast.

Middletown’s Democratic Township Committee Candidate, Linda Baum suggested introducing a LGBT curriculum into Middletown’s schools.

Asbury Park GOP Committee Chairwoman Louise Murray asked the city council to start enforcing a decades old ordinance that prohibits beach wear on the boardwalk. They didn’t.

A mystery illness that was never discovered caused the Monmouth County Courthouse to close for over a week.

Monmouth County Prosecutor Peter Warshaw was nominated to the Superior Court by Governor Christie. His nomination was confirmed by the State Senate before the end of the month.

Christopher Gramiccioni was nominated to replace Warshaw and was named Acting Prosecutor. Like so many other of Christie’s nominations, the State Senate has yet to act on Gramiccioni’s nomination.

The Supreme Court of the United States declared that ObamaCare is a tax and that it is constitutional.

Photo credit: Tony Fiore

New Jersey American Water Company had a major infrastructure failure at its Swimming River Water Treatment Plant due to unrepaired damage from the August 2011 Hurricane Irene. Over 55,000 Monmouth County residents experienced water shortages and rationing as the summer season started.