Bergen GOP Chairman Bob Yudin looking to get even
TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2012
By CHARLES STILE
COLUMNIST
Bergen County Republican Organization Chairman Bob Yudin hasn’t taken a victory lap following June’s bruising chairman’s fight.
He’s on what could best be described as a “Settling of Scores Tour 2012.”
Yudin says he may not give the coveted “line” — preferred ballot position, and the BCRO official endorsement — to the District 40 Republican incumbents, Sen. Kevin O’Toole of Cedar Grove and Assemblymen David Russo of Ridgewood and Scott Rumana of Wayne, in the 2013 legislative races. If Yudin makes good on his threat, that could open the door to a potentially costly primary in seven northwest Bergen towns during a possible Chris Christie reelection campaign.
Yudin is still seething that the trio endorsed Anthony Rottino, his chief opponent in the chairman’s fight which Yudin won in a runoff vote. Why, Yudin argues, should he throw his unabashed devotion — and BCRO clout — to the trio when they tried to put an end to his own career?
And it’s more than their siding with the enemy that has him so steamed.
