The Asbury Park Homeowner’s Association Sunday meeting at The Complex became the last public opportunity for candidates and the public to speak about the issues ahead of Tuesday’s election and the municipal ballot questions. President Jordan Modell opened the discussion with a summation of each of the municipal ballot questions. Regarding the question to shift […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, As usual with Asbury Park elections, controversy reigns supreme. So while the Mayor runs unopposed and a hard working community female is running against an incumbent, what has changed? Nothing has changed. Incumbents tell us to vote no on ballot questions that would keep the status quo in power. The same […]

Editor, Asbury Sun, Whomever I speak with has a different take on the three municipal questions on the Ballot. My questions is, what will separating Asbury Park into three wards accomplish, and who’s prepared to deal with consequences if passed?   A letter to the editor author states unreasonable rent increases in Asbury Park almost […]

Editor, Asbury Sun, Mr Kendle’s opponent in Asbury Park’s City Council race is allied with the ‘ward/partisan elections’ faction. This group, despite the ticket’s ‘For all the People’ title, seeks in reality only power for themselves. An agitating force, which if this person is elected, will import tension into the presently team-oriented council, this faction […]

Voting changes enacted by law in August by Gov Phil Murphy has prompted the Asbury Park Democratic Committee to release a vote-by-mail procedural how to ahead of the Nov. 6 elections. The new law involves allowing a voter to request a mail-in ballot for one election or for all elections every year until the he/she […]

The League of Women Voters of the Township of Ocean [LWV] has put together a nonpartisan vetting of the Asbury Park Municipal Ballot questions ahead of the Nov. 6 elections. “LWV member Kerry Butch was the driving force behind the ballot question explanation, urging the League to get involved and recruiting experts to help out,” […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, This Election Day, Asbury Park voters will have a unique opportunity to exercise direct and significant influence on the future governance of our city. The opportunity comes in the form of three questions that will appear on the local ballot. 1 – Assigning some City Council seats to ‘wards,’ rather than electing all […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, I am a member of the committee in support of the short-term rental petition, municipal ballot question #3. In a recent article, the City Council continued its singular narrative that short-term rentals are the cause of higher rents and of a reduction in affordable housing in this city. The Council, however, […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, I will be voting no on municipal ballot question #3 to abolish Asbury Park’s short-term rental ordinance, which protects us from investors coming in and converting our housing stock into short-term Airbnb-style rentals. The problems with such investor-owned Airbnb housing are obvious: First, it takes existing year-round rentals off the market, […]

Asbury Park Mayor John Moor and Councilman Jesse Kendle have confirmed they will run in the November election under the Asbury Park Together Ticket. The incumbents were first elected to four-year terms in the November 2014 elections after the formal change of government was enacted. This bid for second four-year terms comes at a time […]