In Monmouth County, every town comes intriguingly into play on some level, several more critically than others.
Republicans have owned the Freeholder Board for over 20 years, but in the last two elections Democrats picked up two seats to bring them to within one of county control.
A profusion of newly registered Democratic voters have boosted the party’s confidence heading into Nov. 4th, and now Democrats Amy Mallet and Glenn Mason are ready for that 11th hour jolt of cash from the Democratic State Committee.
State Party Chairman Joseph Cryan wants to win here.
He wants it more than he would like to pick up additional warm bodies in the Assembly next year, where his party’s already built a comfortable majority.
A victory by either Mallet or Mason would make a Democratic Party statement. But neither is a name candidate running against incumbent Freeholder Director Lillian Burry and auto dealer vice president John Curley, an intensely focused campaigner who served as a Red Bank Councilman and has close political connections to state Sen. Jennifer Beck (R-Monmouth).
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