Lessons From The Freeholder Selection Process
Dispatches From San Juan
First the candidate pushed by the party bosses didn’t win. Of course I am not sure which candidate was being pushed by the party bosses because different candidates where pushed by different bosses. Actually the lesson is, there are no more “Bosses”. The process was fair and relatively democratic without some of the histrionics that took place when the process of candidate selection was first opened up. Yes the chairman had a candidate he preferred as did certain elected officials. Guess what. They are allowed to voice an opinion. Just because they do does not mean their candidate is being pushed down our throat. So there you have it. All you conspiracy theorists can now go home. Please.
Second we learned some people are better at building coalitions then other people.
In case anyone hasn’t notice there is one guy who seems to be really good at it. Jim “the Shadow” Gianell (visit http://monmouth-bull-moose.blogspot.com/2008/04/who-knows-what-evil-lurks-in-hearts-of.html/ to learn how he earned that moniker) also known by his friends simply as the Greek.
In the last ten years Jim has only failed to back the winner once. That was John Curley in his second run. Here is a guy who isn’t even a municipal chairman, holds no elected office, has no cushy government appointments yet he gets people nominated. Rich tried to get the nomination twice and failed. It was not until he got Gianell’s support that he got the nomination.
How does he do it? He appears to have the confidence of a lot of people and he is good at convincing people to back his candidate. He did this first as the architect of the once influential Two Rivers Chairman Group and more recently by working with like minded chairmen scattered about the County. He also is a tireless worker for “his Guy or Gal”.
It seems that if you want to get the Monmouth GOP’s backing Jim Gianell is the guy to go see.
TR
Posted: March 27th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: Monmouth County | Tags: "Teddy Roosevelt", Dispatches From San Juan, TR | 5 Comments »