42 Herald & Lantern 30 May '84

GOP Has 3 Locil Fights Besides County Battle

By E.J. I)UFFY National attention focuses next Tuesdayon Democratic presidential primaries in New Jersey and California* But county Republicans at least are uryferstandably more interested in their local party battles Sheriff Beech Fox and two' running mates for county freeholder are fighting for the hearts, minds and votes of GOP faithful and independent voters alike against party organization rivals. Republican skirmishes ike also being fought for Upper Township Committee. Stone Harbor Council and North Wildwood's Second Ward council seats. GOP victors in those primaries are virtual shoo-ins this fall: no Democrats are running The same holds true in Stone Harborj^ GOP mayoralty and Woodbine's council primaries. Barring sfrong write-in opponents. incumbents in both boroughs face easy^primarv and general election wins. DBMOCUATS AND REPUBLICAN can did/les face easy wins in North Wildwood's First Ward and in the Denies and Middle Township. Committee primaries. Since all are unopposed, showdowns await November duels. Voters in all 16 county municipalities also elect party committee members next week. Most of those running stand unopposed Democra||j^uive not fielded £andidat^s for many orthe county seats According to the latest figures from the county Board of Elections. 22.661 Republicans. 8.545 Democrats. 49 independents and 16,203 voters with no party affiliation are registered to vote. Voters registered with "No Party" listed, can cast ballots in the Republican or i t

Democa tjc-pciiiiary THEjf<)TTESTd()CAL rice by far boil-0d-<»ver from the bitter feud between Fox and county GOP chaVman Philip Matalueci Fox is running ! for his sixth term against Ocean City Patrolman James Plousis. but the inctimbents real battle has been with Matalueci. Well before the deadline. Fox filed as the Regular Republican Organization candidate only to lose the label when County Clerk Angela Pulvino ruled that it too closely resembled the incorporated title of his opponents' slate, the ("ape May County Regular Republican Organization. The organisation drummed Fox from its' ranks lasttfrionth just after he successfully sued to preVent party officials from endorsing sheriff and freeholder candidates. Since their Matalueci has asked for an investigaticrildf Fox's 1980 and 1981 campaign financjial disclosure statements. In reply, tfaymeriff tiled a $6-million libel suit against Matalueci last week. Listed as Beech Fox Regular • Republicans, the sheriff appears at the bottom of Column Three on the Republican (left) side of the primary ballot just above his freeholder running mates. Cape May Point Commissioner Charles D. Reeves and Upper Township school board member Dorothv R. Armand. PLOV61S APPEARS at the bottom of Republican Column Two above his freeholder running mates, incumbent GeraJd Thornton and former West W'ildwood Mayor Ilerbcrt Frederick. • GOP freeholder candidates that emerge from the primary as victors will face Lower Township Mayor Peggie Bieberbach and Middle Township businessman Rodnfy Downs./unopposed candidates in the Democraticjprimary. {

They're listed in Column Six in the middle of the ballot beneath a space for the Democratic sheriff candidate marked "No Nomination." That's because Ralph Sheets bailed out of the primary, after the date he could be replaced by the party, when he was appointed W'ildwood police chief last month Nevertheless. Plousis or Fox will have a Democrat opponent this fall, according to county Democrat chairman James Iannone. He's launched a write-in campaign to elect retired Villas lawyer Nicaso Zagpne as Sheets' replacement. Only 100 voters are needed to make that effort a success. * DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES for municipal offices are listed below Bieberbach and Downs at the bottom of Column Six,' Their county Regular Republican Organization counterparts appear under Thornton and Frederick in Column Two while Beech Fox Regular Republicans are listed at the bottom of Column three under Armand and ReevcS": Other independent Republicans for municipal offices appear at the end of Column Four. Sample ballots, listing candidate positions. polling places and the times they'll be open, were being mailed to registered county voters last week. Summaries of the municipal primaries follow. Dennis Township Barry Grasso is unchallenged in the Republican primary for the three-year committee seat currently occupied by Mayor Frank L. Murphy who is unopposed on the Democratic side. Democrat Albert J. Knoll. 21. is unchallenged in the party primary to retain the committee seat he was appointed to last month as the replacement for Gary Errickson. Knoll, however, will face unop-

posed Republican primary hopeful Edward N. Williams, in November. Middle Township Mayor Michael Voll has no rivals in the Democratic primary, nor does his Rio Grande neighbor, GOP primary candidate and Stone Harbor businessman James G. Allax North W'ildwood Incumbent Robert F. Plum stands unchallenged in the Democratic First Ward primary, but he will be in the fall when he's up against unopposed Republican Robert McCullion Regular Republican James^E. McGoldrick faces independent Republicans Carlo J. Accardi in the city's Second Ward GOP primary. Stone Harbor Mayor Arden W Hand is unopposed in the Republican primary and fall general elections, but four Regular Republicans are rupning for two seats on borough council: incumbent President Eric J. Arenberg: banker Robert J. Boyer; upholster Scott Daniels, a former Pennsylvania municipal official; and William W. Cathcart. a sanitary engineer for the county Municipal Utilities Authority. Upper Township The county GOP rift cracked into this municipal primary where incumbent Leonard Migliaccio is defending his committee seat against Regular Republican George W Betts and independent Republican Bruno Tropeano. Migliaccio is a Beech Fox Regular Republican. Woodbine Incumbent Republican C'ouncilmen Theodore D DeSantis, president, and William Pikolycky are unchallenged.

Jersey Juicy Pluih In Dem Presidential

Four Democratic presidential hopefuls are wooing state voters this week in the final days before the party primary ^ Tuesday. Each tops a column on the right side of the ballot - a good distance from the would-be opponent in November, unchallenged GOP primary candidate Ronald Reagan Listed below the presidential contenders are their delegate slates plus Congressional, county and municipal candidates 'see related stories > Although Cape Republicans are eyeing the local action. New Jersey's political pulse is being ' taken from the top of. the

: ballot since the state ? primary is critical in the ; Democratic presidential ; race. Four other states — NewMexico. South Dakota, i West Virginia and California — also hold primaries June 5. the final contests i before the Democratic NaI tional Convention in San Francisco. STILL SEVERAL HUNDRED shv of the number needed for a first-ballot nomination there <1.967'. I former Vice President Walter Mondale is nevertheless leading the Democratic pack in collected delegates < 1.604' His major rival. Col orado Sen Gary Hart, expects to increase his

delegate total <998) by winning most of the 306 at stake in California Mondale wants to counteract the projected Hart win out West by capturing the* majority of New Jersey's 122 delegates Most of the 21 county chairmen in the state ex pect Mondale to come out ahead of Hart. County par ty leaders favor Hart, though His local steering committee is headed byMiddle Township Committeeman Charles Leusner and includes County -Democratic chairman James lannone. Middle Mayor Michael Voll. Lower Township Democratic leader Patricia Calfina. Middle and Lower Solicitor

Bruce Gorman. Recording to Andrew Hbrtwitz. Hart coordinator for Cape May and Atlantic counties, the senator expects the Rev. Jesse Jackson to offset Monday's supposed advantage here by cornering votes from the state's urban minority populations. Some observers predict Jackson could claim as much as 25 percent of the New Jersey vote HE ISN'T TRAILING the pack, though, even w ith the 291 delegates Jackson has collected Rarely if ever mentioaed. there is a fourth Democratic presidential candidate. Ly ndon H LaRouche The Harold Stassen of the Democratic Party has no reported delegates. 382 are uncommitted Of the 122 New Jerseydelegates to be selected, voters elect 73 plus 24 alter nates The 73 district delegates will choose another 24 delegates and 12 alternates on June 16. bas ed on the number of delegates won by each Democratic contender in the primary To qualify, though, a candidate must win at least 15 delegates The party's state committee picks another 10 delegates and five alternates on June 6 also accor-

ding to the primary results Fifteen more delegates are selected by the committee from top-ranking party officials They are not committed to a candidate: five have already been named, including Congressman William Hughes of Ocean City All but Hughes announced support for Mondale Four district delegates and one alternate on the county ballot are committed to each of the four Democratic contenders in their columns 'LaRouche. 7. Hart. 8: Jackson. 9. Mondale. 10». One uncom mitted delegate is running in Column Six U S Sen Bill Bradley is being challenged 'Column Five i in the Democratic primary by Elliot Greenspan, running on the slogan. Citizen Democrats to Stop War and End Depression 111 (HIES H AS NO oppo nent in the Democratic primary 'Column Six). His prospective Republican rival this fall. Stockten State College professor Raymond G. Massie. is unopposed on the GOP side of the ballot t Column Two ) . Bradley faces the victor in the Republican primary duel (Column One) bet* ween Montclair Mayor Mary V. Mochary and

Mantoloking lawyereducator Robert Norris. County Clerk Angela Pulivno is a Moncharv campaign coordinator Below the president in Column Two are listed the unopposed delegates committed to him Gov Thomas Kean and U.S. Labor Secretary Raymond Donoygui are among the eight tfyfarge delegate c a n d i jfra t e s to the Republican National Convention irJ Da lias. Mochary is amcwig the ei«ght alternates). County u()P chairman Philip Matalueci is listed as the district delegate atlarge candidate and Nadine Carpenter his alternate. Three other district delegate-candidates are listed below here including state Assemblyman William Gormley of Atlantic County

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