Tag: Politics

With a primary election coming up in just over six weeks and a general election in November, the Monmouth County Board of Elections is ready to train – and pay – residents to help citizens exercise their right to vote.

RED BANK – It was a choice between a pause or a cause for incumbent Mayor Billy Portman and he has chosen the latter: After a 3-month “crash course” in running the borough, Portman is seeking a full term in the upcoming May 9 elections.

Residents running for council under the Red Bank Together banner held a press conference Wednesday at the Oyster Point Hotel in the run-up to the May 9 municipal election.

Before the May 9 special election ushering in Red Bank’s new form of government, candidates for public office in the borough have signed on to participate in a forum organized by the League of Women Voters of Monmouth County (LWV).

Red Bank is turning over a new leaf this spring with its first nonpartisan election process being held in May and an even more competitive mayoral race is stirring with the announcement of Timothy J. Hogan, president and chief hospital executive of Riverview Medical Center, as a candidate.

Lillian G. Burry, 87, of Colts Neck, will not run for a seventh term on the Monmouth County Board of County Commissioners and will depart elected office when her current term ends in December.

At a 10 a.m. special meeting Friday, March 3, a handful of residents witnessed a council majority override the rarely used mayoral veto in Red Bank.

Following Mayor Billy Portman’s decision Feb. 22 to veto the short-term rental ordinance passed by council 5-1 at its Feb. 8 meeting, council president Michael Ballard has called for a special meeting to discuss the action.

A number of county residents have recently announced their intentions to run for office this year.

The borough’s first new Master Plan since 1995 was unanimously approved and adopted by the planning board Feb. 6.