By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog
Professor Murray Sabrin received the most votes at the Middlesex County GOP’s screening committee on Wednesday night, Save Jerseyans, but failed to obtain the 60% threshold required to land an outright full-fledged endorsement heading into the county convention.
A small band of candidates are competing county-to-county for the NJ GOP U.S. Senate nomination in a cycle without any clear establishment favorite. It’s been a split decision so far statewide at least in the early going. Union County’s committee recently backed Rich Pezzullo of Monmouth County, while Essex’s Chairman Al Barlas awarded his county’s line to businessman Brian Goldberg.
In Middlesex, Sabrin will have to share a watered-down recommendation with former FBI agent Rob Turkavage who, I’m told, fought Sabrin right through multiple rounds of voting until a final head-to-head where they received 29 to 19 votes, respectively, leaving the Ramapo professor just 3 votes short. Still, I’m told Sabrin impressed many previously-skeptical members of the screening committee with his presentation.
From what I’ve heard, county committees are all for show and only a handful of people actually decide who gets the nod.
Matt, would it be too hard to run a quick comparison, table-like, between the candidates and their platforms? They could use some exposure, and you could use some blog material.
Sabrin spoke last and got much more time than the other candidates…you got the vibe that someone high up in the county party was rooting for him. I’d be shocked if he did so well at convention.
@Elaine There’s some truth to the second part of your statement (it varies from county-to-county); the first part isn’t correct. Getting “the line” is a big leg-up in a primary.
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