September 6th, Jersey City, Brennan Court House –
In what could prove an important legal decision for New Jersey politicos, the Honorable Judge Bariso vacated the Jersey City Municipal Republican Committee’s post-primary reorganization on Wednesday.
At least 26 committeemen and women were allegedly disenfranchised and not informed of the reorganization meeting. Statute N.J.S.A. 19:5-2 requires that all elected committeemen and women be informed in writing of the reorganization meeting. Although the allegations included a claim that there was never in fact any reorganization meeting at all, the plaintiff said he agreed to leave that point alone if it meant achieving a summary ruling on the municipal committee election.
The plaintiff, Sean Connelly Esq., was delighted with the ruling and said that this decision will “put them on notice that they can not continue with business as usual.” The summary ruling has also brought similar satisfaction to many Jersey City and Hudson County committeemen and women who say they want a Republican party in Jersey City that supports its Republicans.
Connelly told Save Jersey he was willing to avoid a court action if the Jersey City Republican Committee would set a new reorganization meeting. “All we want(ed) was fairness,” he said.
Owen Gunden, a newly elected committeeman who signed the court documents attesting to the fact that he was disenfranchised, allegedly spoke with the chairman at the county reorganization meeting on June 12th and was allegedly told that as many people as could be notified were. Gunden continued, “he had my number, he had my email, it would have been hard for him” not to call. He also claimed that none of the Hudson County Republican Club or Ron Paul supporters, who ran both on and off the official party line, were invited.
The Hudson County Republican Club (http://hudsonrepublicans.com/) is an independent county wide Republican organization that bills itself as the home of true conservativism in Hudson.
Gunden said the case wasn’t “just about disenfranchising the committee members but about the people that voted for them – it was hundreds of people that were disenfranchised.”
I also never received any notice of this "meeting." Great job to everyone who worked on this case, and my sincerest thanks to Sean for filing the claim!! Is this the first ruling of this kind in Hudson County? Maybe people are starting to get interested again in local politics.
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