Bayshore Tea Party Considering Incumbent Challenges
By Art Gallagher
The Bayshore Tea Party Group has started the process of evaluating incumbent Republican office holders with an eye towards possible nominating challenges, according to the group’s co-founder Barbara Gonzalez.
“We’re very angry at Republicans,” Gonzalez said in a phone interview with MoreMonmouthMusings, “but we’re not going to primary someone just for the sake of it. We have committees meeting to evaluate office holders’ records and postions. Many conservatives, not just the Tea Party feel we have no representation.”
Under the Party By-Laws passed by Monmouth GOP Chairman John Bennett last September, there is a new process by which incumbents on the County and State level can be challenged at nominating conventions. Gonzalez, who is also a member of the Monmouth GOP Board of Directors due to a provision in the new By-Laws, would not rule out challenges at the convention or in a primary should convention challenges fail.
The Monmouth GOP convention is scheduled for March 23, 8:30 A.M. at Colts Neck High School.
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We are angry at republicans. Fine then run a third party campaign against them. You should be proud not to be a Republican. There are other options
Conservative. Tea Party. Etc. Avail yourself of your options.
Really? The TP has jumped the shark.
What’s wrong with them challanging incumbents? This country needs more of this, people need do decide not party bosses based on favors. Maybe this will unite the party not divide it
Can we have a list of your possible targets.
Who cares? These people know how to run their mouths and post garbage on the internet but they have no idea about real life election campaigns.
You think you are still relevant after your latest shellacking with Anna Little.
“We are so angry with Republicans.” It’s people like you Babs, that give the Tea Party a bad image; delusional, power hungry and ill advised.
When are you going to understand NJ is not going to easily endorse hard right candidates, such as Quarmont.
Maybe it is we who should be angry with the incompetent BTP which doesn’t know how to run a campaign, let alone properly vet candidates so that we get competent candidates.
If I wasn’t tied up with my own Sandy Recovery effort, I’d have half a mind to depose you.
Give it up already.
“we’re angry at R’s”, “we’re not R’s”–said Babs, a GOP BOARD MEMBER
can’t make this up………………….
This WAS said:
“We’re very angry at Republicans,”
This was NOT said:
“We are not Republicans”
She is angry at Republicans (why?) and she sits on the GOP Board of Directors? Does Vin Gopal also have a seat on the GOP Board of Directors too? I hear he is also angry at Republicans and just like Barbara he is NOT a Republican either.
But don’t think Vin is angry at the Republicans. Hes friendly with most of them who’s name isnt Angelini or Cassagrande
The new by-laws apply to anyone wanting to challenge an incumbent R officeholder, who wants to be placed on the Republican ballot for the June Primary, to be nominated to carry the Republican party banner, for that office, in the actual November election.- I know this may be confusing… So, they really shouldn’t say they “aren’t Republicans”, if they want to replace a Republican, to run as an R, in Nov. You can’t have it all ways: either you are running as an alternative R candidate, or you wait til filing in Sept., and pick what party designation you want to call yourself. And everyone knows, an Independent,Conservative, Green,Socialist, or any other party
designation, other than the major two parties, usually will not win!
It frightens me to think that this woman has not learned one thing in all the time she has been involved in politics. This is a blue state. Democrats have a huge registration advantage. They control both sides of the legislature and they have access to untold union funds. With all of that, what does she do? She gets mad at REPUBLICANS. So rather than figure out a way to get more independents and sane democrats to unite and get rid of the far left democrats already in office, she threatens to primary the Republicans already in office, the ones who are already in the minority and replace them with jokes like Bader Quarmot and Anna Little and ensure an even bigger majority for the liberal Democrats and their union flunkies. You just have to shake your head in disbelief.