Community leader Brother John Muhammad today called a press conference outside the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office to talk about voter suppression and intimidation in the city. The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office [MCPO] is currently investigating the city council election voting process after Stephania Warren, the campaign manager for the AP Out Front election ticket, wrote […]

Investigators from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office executed a search warrant on Saturday afternoon at the Asbury Park campaign headquarters of the A-Team election ticket, according to a source with knowledge of the events. The investigators appeared to be “looking for ballots” at the Asbury Avenue premises, the source said. The Prosecutor’s Office has been investigating […]

A political action committee [PAC] with ties to the A-Team city council candidates has failed to disclose how it obtained $7,000 in a report filed with the state Election Law Enforcement Commission [ELEC]. The PAC, Citizens for Change, filed its first quarterly receipts and expenditures report on April 15. The report states that from Jan. […]

The manager of an opposing campaign has filed a complaint with the Monmouth County Clerk of Elections, stating that the A-Team’s city council candidates and volunteers are mishandling messenger ballot applications. Stephania Warren, manager of the AP Out Front campaign, wrote a letter to County Clerk M. Claire French stating that A-Team candidates and volunteers completed […]

The charter study commission is holding a public forum on Saturday and encouraging members of the public to attend. The charter study commission is an elected five-member board that is currently scrutinizing the city’s form of government. Following their nine-month study period, they can suggest a variety of changes, ranging from staggering elections to a […]

Editor, the Asbury Park Sun: I have read the discussion concerning the potential conflict of Duanne Small and Randy Thompson being on the Charter Study Commission while running for a council seat in Asbury Park. The issue surprised me since, from my prospective, the conflict is not just real but had to be clear before […]

Daniel A. Harris III has thrown his hat in the ring for this year’s city council election. Harris, 61, is running as part of the A-Team ticket. He was raised in Neptune and currently resides on Ridge Avenue. He has lived in Asbury Park for 30 years, he said. Harris has been married to Emily […]

City council candidates Randy Thompson and Duanne Small are staying on the charter study commission — for now, at least — despite City Attorney Fred Raffetto’s legal opinion stating that their council runs create an actual or perceived conflict of interest. “There is no law that states that I cannot sit here as a commissioner […]

The incumbent-led Forward Asbury Park ticket won the top-five ballot positions in today’s ballot drawing at City Hall. City Clerk Stephen Kay pulled cards from a box to determine the ballot positions [pictured above and shaking the box at right]. Prior to the drawing, candidates could choose to be grouped on the ballot with their […]

Asbury Park city council candidates Duanne Small and Randy Thompson should choose between their council races and their seats on the city’s charter study commission, according to a written opinion by city attorney Frederick Raffetto. Raffetto’s opinion is advisory, and he has no power to force the acceptance of his findings, he wrote. Small requested […]