Mayor Myra Campbell has released a statement which she plans to read at tonight’s city council meeting — the first regular meeting since the council’s controversial reorganization session on July 1. At the reorganization, Campbell’s two running mates on the One Asbury ticket, John Moor and Amy Quinn, voted against her appointment as mayor. Voting […]

A second hearing date of July 16 has been scheduled to decide if uncounted ballots in the May 14 Asbury Park city council election should be opened. Daniel Harris III, an unsuccessful candidate on the A-Team slate, last month filed a challenge to the election results. His petition seeks to count 332 vote-by-mail [VBM] ballots […]

During a volatile council swearing in ceremony today, Myra Campbell was appointed as Asbury Park’s new mayor — the first time a female African-American has held the post. Campbell’s appointment came as a surprise, as it bucks what some consider a tradition in Asbury Park of appointing as mayor the person who received the most […]

An initial hearing on the challenge to the Asbury Park City Council election is scheduled for tomorrow morning in front of Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Dennis O’Brien, according to the civil case management office in Freehold. The challenge was filed by Daniel Harris III [right], an unsuccessful candidate on the A-Team slate. His petition […]

Myra Campbell, who was elected on May 14 to her first term on the City Council, was appointed Asbury Park’s Mayor at the council reorganization meeting at noon today. The vote was 3-2. Voting for Campbell [above at center] were reelected incumbents John Loffredo [above at left] and Susan Henderson [at right]. Campbell provided the […]

The opportunity for Asbury Park to have its first African-American female Mayor is motivating incoming Councilwoman Myra Campbell to seek the post, with reelected incumbents John Loffredo and Susan Henderson providing the necessary votes. “A window of opportunity that has never been opened for an African-American female in this city, and may never be opened […]

A key appointee in the city government — City Attorney Frederick C. Raffetto — appears set to continue in his post when the City Council and its new majority are sworn in on July 1. New majorities on a municipal governing body often change their outside professionals, such as attorneys, engineers and auditors. But Raffetto [above] […]

The incoming city council majority plan to select John Moor as the city’s next Mayor, both Moor and a source confirm. Newcomers Myra Campbell, Moor and Amy Quinn [above, left to right] ran together on the One Asbury ticket, and won council seats in the May 14 election. The three will be sworn in on […]

A legal challenge to the city council election results in Asbury Park should not change the timing of the July 1 swearing in of the new council, according to the attorney handling the case. “There is no connection with the swearing in because it would be virtually impossible in most elections to conduct an election […]

A candidate on the losing A-Team slate has filed a lawsuit challenging the results of the Asbury Park City Council election on May 14. The petition, filed Tuesday by Daniel Harris III, contests the voiding of 332 vote by mail [VBM] ballots and the failure to count 32 provisional ballots by the Monmouth County Board […]