A legal effort to trigger a mayoral run-off in Asbury Park appears to face long odds, as Mayor John Moor [right] says he’s one ballot away from winning the court case. In the November election, Moor defeated A-Team candidate Remond Palmer [above left] in a multi-candidate field by over 50 percent of the vote, avoiding […]

Testimony in the Asbury Park election lawsuit before Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Dennis O’Brien begins Monday. The lawsuit, filed by unsuccessful A-Team candidate Remond Palmer and Arva M. Council [shown above], seeks to have 343 vote-by-mail [VBM] ballots that were disqualified by the Monmouth County Board of Elections counted into the record. Palmer ran […]

A Monmouth County Superior Court Judge will hear testimony in late February from over 230 Asbury Park voters whose ballots were rejected in the November municipal election. During a hearing Wednesday, Judge Dennis O’Brien granted the request Wednesday to lawyers representing A-Team candidates Remond Palmer and Arva M. Council. Palmer and Council [shown above] filed […]

Asbury Park City Council candidates from the A-Team — Zero Tolerance ticket will host a “meet the candidates” event at the West Side Community Center on Thursday, Oct. 9, from 7 to 10 p.m., according to the group’s Facebook page. Members of the Asbury Park community are invited to come out and meet the A-Team […]

The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office has closed an investigation of voter fraud during the May 2013 Asbury Park City Council elections. No criminal charges have been filed in connection with the investigation, according to Charles Webster, spokesman for the prosecutor’s office. Investigators from the Prosecutor’s Office executed a search warrant in May 2013 at the […]

Another full ticket, the “A-Team,” has filed to run in the Asbury Park City Council elections. All five council seats are up for grabs in the November 4 election and it will be the first time in the city’s history voters will directly elect their mayor. On the “A-Team” ticket, former Board of Education member […]

A group of Asbury Park residents discussed the major strengths and weaknesses of the Asbury Park school system last night during a community forum intended to gauge what the community is looking for in a superintendent. Kathy Winecoff, a field service representative for the New Jersey School Boards Association, facilitated the meeting. Winecoff will also […]

Editor, the Asbury Park Sun: The A-Team has five perfect candidates who are seeking to win the upcoming city council election on May 14. First, Remond Palmer has demonstrated leadership in the community for decades. He is determined to design high-quality, culturally relevant programs that are available for our children to enrich their lives and […]

A political action committee affiliated with the A-Team city council candidates has revealed three funding sources who donated a total of $7,000. Darryl Hammary, the PAC’s treasurer, provided photocopies of three checks that showed the sources of the contributions, including the backs of the checks indicating they had been deposited. He also provided a copy […]

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 […]