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Bergen County GOP organization endorse slate of candidates for June primary

Maura DeNicola

BY TODD SOUTH
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD

HACKENSACK — The Bergen County Republican Organization on Monday night endorsed its candidates — including Donald Trump for president — for June 7 party primary nominations to the fall general elections.

More than 500 county Republican Organization committee members and elected officials cast their ballots at the party’s headquarters here.

Trump led with 332 votes, followed by John Kasich with 116 and Ted Cruz with 77.

U.S. Rep. Scott Garrett, R-Wantage, won the party organization’s nod for his re-election nomination campaign with 273 votes. Garrett faced challenger Michael J. Cino, who drew 44 votes. Cino said he would continue to run against Garrett in the primary.

At the county level six positions are up for election in November: sheriff, surrogate, clerk and three freeholder seats.

The county GOP has lost county offices in recent years. Democrats hold all county offices and five of seven freeholder seats. The Republicans have only one incumbent running in this year’s election, Freeholder Maura DeNicola.

Bergen County GOP Chairman Bob Yudin said he hoped that those candidates who won party organizational support Monday would not face continued challenges leading up to the June primary so that the party could focus on fundraising and defeating the Democrats in the November election.

Though the party won elections for freeholder, county executive and sheriff during his tenure, Yudin readily admitted that fighting the Democrats is an uphill battle.

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U.S. Rep. Scott Garrett will speak at annual Conservative Political Action Conference or CPAC

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February 22,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, U.S. Rep. Scott Garrett will be on the podium next month at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, joining the Republican presidential candidates and other prominent conservative officials.

Businessman Donald Trump, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz are among the past and present GOP presidential candidates on the speakers’ list. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie spoke at the conference in 2015.

The invitation comes as Garrett (R-5th Dist.) is precieved to be New Jersey’s most vulnerable congressional incumbent and will face a well-financed Democrat, former Clinton White House speechwriter Josh Gottheimer, this fall. Gottheimer raised $1.4 million last year, which was more than Garrett. Mr Gottheimer is another PR person like Ridgewood Mayor Paul Aronsohn given his disastrous tenure in Ridgewood residents may not share any enthusiasm for the media darling given the bad taste the Jim Mac Greevey mouth piece has left in Ridgewood.

Gottheimer is funded by Big Government donors,who are pro Wall Street bailouts, pro-corporate welfare , pro-crony capitalist types looking to remove the last impediment to getting their hands on more tax payer money.

“It’s not easy being a conservative from New Jersey but Scott Garrett has consistently led on conservative issues,” said Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, which sponsors the annual conference.

Garrett is a co-founder of the House Freedom Caucus, a group of conservative Republicans. He was criticized for reportedly telling his colleagues that he would not support the House Republicans’ fundraising arm because it backed gay candidates.

U.S. Rep. Scott Garrett says criticism of his stance on gay marriage is a distraction from his efforts to improve the economy.

“Hardworking families know that good jobs are still hard to come by and the American Dream is stifled by big government,” Garrett said in a statement announcing his appearance at CPAC. “Our complicated tax code is more punitive than fair, thousands of new regulations bog down innovators, and the nearly $20 trillion national debt is jeopardizing our future. But being a conservative is about solving problems, and that’s why I’m proud to join CPAC to discuss solutions that will jumpstart our economy and return our nation to prosperity.”