Yup. And the improper campaigning at the Asbury Tower early in the campaign.
Just a whole series of things that just keep adding up.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Gary9007@... wrote:
>
> Isn't the A Team also the one with the conflict of interest with the
> Charter Revision Comminnion????
>
>
> In a message dated 4/30/2013 6:08:13 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> asburycouple@... writes:
>
>
>
>
> Every single allegation of sleazy and potentially illegal campaigning has
> been about the A-Team. Asbury has a long history of shady politics that the
> Council over the past ten years has worked hard to fix. Above all given
> that history, Asbury needs to be a place that businesses, vistors and
> residents feel is honestly run. Is the A-Team who we want leading our city
> if this
> is how they are campaigning?
>
> ALL BUT A-TEAM DENY AFFILIATION WITH 42 BALLOT MESSENGERS
> TWO MORE MESSENGERS SIGN AFFIDAVITS
>
> By Molly Mulshine
>
>
> Three of the four tickets in the Asbury Park council race have denied
> affiliation with 42 people who are acting as ballot messengers in the
> election.
>
> Campaign managers for the AP Out Front, Forward Asbury Park and One Asbury
> tickets have said their candidates are not using volunteers or paying
> workers to deliver messenger ballots to voters. Voters may designate a
> messenger to bring them a ballot to complete, which can then be mailed or
> hand-delivered back to election offices for tabulation.
> The remaining slate, the A-Team, has paid 10 campaign workers to act as
> messengers, compensating them $100 per person for gathering 10 messenger
> ballots each, candidate Duanne Small has confirmed.
>
> Two more of the people listed as messengers, Knowryl Hammary and Byron
> Hall, are named as chair person and treasurer, respectively, for all five
> A-Team candidates' personal campaign accounts.
>
> The A-Team candidates refuse to disclose whether any of the remaining 30
> messengers are affiliated with their campaign. The A-Team candidates are
> Duanne Small, Jim Keady, Nora Hyland, Remond Palmer and Daniel Harris.
>
> Following allegations of mishandling of ballots from the campaign manager
> of the AP Out Front ticket, County Clerk M. Claire French decided to
> require all messengers to sign affidavits affirming that they understand
> that
> breaking the rules governing the messenger ballot process is a third-degree
> crime.
>
> French mailed the affidavits to all messengers on April 17.
> The Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office is now investigating the ballot
> process in the city as well, French said.
>
> The Asbury Park Sun sent A-Team campaign manager John Napolitani a list of
> questions regarding the use of messengers by the A-Team campaign. The Sun
> asked about messengers' affiliation with the campaign, whether more
> messengers were paid, and how the group has ensured that ballots are
> delivered
> directly to voters as required.
> The candidates chose not to respond to the questions, Napolitani said, and
> instead issued the following statement on behalf of all five candidates:
>
> The A-Team is following all applicable election laws and guidelines as
> outlined by the County Clerk's office. We are committed to ensuring that the
> citizens of Asbury Park have a free and fair election.
>
> Reached by phone today, A-Team candidate Duanne Small reiterated the
> group's statement, and added that he and his running mates are "working
> closely
> with the County Clerk to resolve issues." He said he does not know who the
> campaign's designated messengers are, and he does not know who is in charge
> of his campaign's messengers.
> "Whatever the county requires, that's what we will abide by," he said.
>
> Two more messengers signed their affidavits since last week, according to
> records in the election offices of the County Clerk. Those messengers are
> Jaisun Lewinski and Pamela S. Gideon. Thirty-five of the 42 messengers still
> have not returned their affidavits.
> Since the affidavit requirement was put in place, no new messengers have
> stepped up to request ballots, according to the election offices, although
> some existing messengers have requested additional ballots.
>
> If messengers do not return their affidavits, the Prosecutor's Office will
> "follow up" with the voters who designated those messengers, French said.
> In total, 336 messenger ballots were taken by messengers to give to
> voters, according to records in the election offices. Ninety-six of those
> ballots
> have been returned to the offices by voters to be opened and tabulated on
> Election Day, leaving 240 messenger ballots that have yet to be returned.
>
> In the 2009 Asbury Park council election, no voters requested messenger
> ballots. In that election, the fifth-place winner of the election received
> only 83 more votes than did the sixth-place candidate, who did not win.
>
> The 42 people may act as messengers for up to 10 voters. Voters can vote
> by messenger ballot by filling out a vote-by-mail [VBM] ballot application
> and designating a messenger, as well as an assistor if applicable. The
> messenger can bring the VBM application to the county clerk's office in
> Freehold, and receive a messenger ballot in return. The messenger must then
> go
> directly to the voter and give him or her the ballot.
>
> From there, the voter can either mail the ballot to the county clerk's
> office or designate a bearer to bring the ballot back.
>
> Election Day is May 14. Twenty-two candidates are vying for all five
> council seats in this nonpartisan election. Terms are four years long, with
> the
> current council's terms ending on June 30. New terms begin on July 1.
>
> STATEMENTS FROM OTHER TICKETS
>
> The remaining tickets' campaign managers say they have no affiliation with
> any of the 42 people named as messengers.
>
> The messengers "are not affiliated with AP Out Front at all, under any
> circumstances," said AP Out Front campaign manager Stephania Warren. Warren
> wrote two letters to the County Clerk's Office alleging the mishandling of
> messenger ballots earlier this month.
>
> The AP Out Front candidates are Clevette Hill, Rosetta Johnson, Shonna
> Famularo, Dorvil Gilles and Stephen Williams.
>
> Jocelyn Toledo, the campaign manager for the incumbent-led Forward Asbury
> Park team, said she does not know of any of the messengers, and none of
> them have signed in at any of the Forward Asbury Park team's campaign events.
>
> The Forward Asbury Park candidates are Deputy Mayor John M. Loffredo,
> Councilwoman Sue Henderson, Councilman Kevin Sanders, BOE member Gregory
> Hopson
> and Will Potter.
> Meredith DeMarco, campaign manager of One Asbury, said her campaign has
> not paid any messengers or authorized any messengers to work on behalf of
> the
> One Asbury campaign.
> Running on the One Asbury ticket are Amy Quinn, Myra Campbell, Talesha
> Crank, John Moor and Joe Woerner.
>
> Independent candidate Randy Thompson also said he has not designated any
> workers or volunteers to act as messengers. Independent candidate Harold V.
> Suggs could not be reached.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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