Primary Election June 5 Selects Who’ll Run in November

COURT HOUSE — Democrat and Republican voters throughout the county are reminded of the Tue., June 5 primary election.
Who could blame prospective Republican voters if they wonder what good it would do to vote? That’s because other states have already held their primary elections, and Mitt Romney, with a reported 1,144 delegates in his corner, is the presumptive Republican presidential candidate. Of course there is still a convention to attend that will make that selection official.
Regardless, polls will open at 6 a.m. and remain open until 8 p.m. for Democrats and Republicans to select their choices for candidates to run in the November general election.
Undeclared voters who wish to cast a ballot in the primary election may do so, and in so doing will become either Democrat or Republican. Voting machines in this election allow the person to vote for only one party’s candidates. Undeclared voters who wish to remain so cannot cast a ballot on June 5, but must wait for the November election.
Regarding the Republican primary, 50 delegates will be sent to the national convention from the Garden State. All of those delegates are to be awarded by the “winner-take-all” vote from throughout the state. State GOP rules mandate the delegates to vote for the primary’s winner on the first three convention ballots.
For president Republicans will select one between Mitt Romney “Cape May County Regular Republican Organization,” Newt Gingrich, “Republican,” Ron Paul, “Republican,” and Rick Santorum, “Republican.”
Delegates for the National Convention (vote for one slate):
Cape May County Regular Republican Organization. Among those 11 delegates at large are Chris Christie, Tom Kean Sr., Susan Kyrillos and Kristine Gabor.
Alternate delegates at large include 11, among them Donald T. Difrancesco, Donna Simon and John F. Amodeo.
District delegates include Keith A. Davis, County GOP Chair Michael Donohue and Lynda Pagliughi. Alternate district delegates include Carleen DiPaola-Greco, Evern Ford and John P. Kelly.
Among delegates at large for Newt 2012 are: Joseph Ingemi, Carl Eugene Wilkerson, Donna Azzolina and Philip Kaufman. Alternate delegate at large, Bobbi Joan Bennett, district delegates Lisa Gentile Marguerite P. Emberger and Mike Assad, and Alternate district delegate Maria D. DiCino.
Delegates at large for Ron Paul include Michael J. Doherty, Murray Sabrin, Harrison Salvatore Fischberg and Byron Soto. Alternate delegates at large include John K. Raube Sr., Jared Hoy, Frank L. Colasurdo, and Michael D. Levine.
District delegates include Donna Marie Ward, Ronald C. Brittin and John O. Fisher. Alternate district delegates include Carl D. Bradley, Edward C. Reeves and Lisa McVey-Fisher.
Santorum: Courage to Fight for America delegates include, delegates at large, Stephen Chudkowski, Timothy C. Richards and Bill Spadea.
Alternate delegates at large include Janice Conti, David L. Hernandez Jr. and Luaren Karwatt.
District delegates include Joshua C. Sanders, Williams H. Sanders Jr. and Donald Patrick Coughlan. Alternate district delegates include Samuel T. Flamma Sr., William Blake Laing III and Thomas F. Healy.
U.S. Senator candidates include Joe “Rudy” Rullo, “Republican Party of Cape May County,” Bader G. Qarmout, “Common Sense Republican,” Joe Kyrillos, “Cape May County Regular Republican,” and David Douglas Brown, “Republican Conservatism Stomping Taxes Government Intrusion.”
Member of the House of Representatives, vote for one, include Frank A. LoBiondo “Cape May County Regular Republican,” and Mike Assad, “Conservative for a Change.”
For Surrogate, M. Susan Sheppard, “Cape May County Regular Republican.”
For Freeholder, Leonard C. Desiderio, “Cape May County Regular Republican.”
In some municipalities members of the local governing body will be selected as will be members of the County Committee.
Democrats have less of a ballot challenge.
Choice for President is Barack Obama, “Cape May County Regular Democratic Organization.”
A vote for Choice for President is an automatic vote for all affiliated male and female district delegates and alternate district delegate to the Democratic National Convention.
Delegates include Robert S. Barr, Stephanie S. Dixon, Barbara Edwards, Rizwan Malik and Kathleen F. Whelan.
For U.S. Senator, Robert Menendez, “Cape May County Regular Democratic Organization.”
Member House of Representatives, vote for one, Cassandra Shober, “Cape May County Regular Democratic Organization,” Viola Hughes, “Honesty, Integrity, Commitment Back to Government,” Gary Stein, “Criminalize for Profit Health Insurance Companies.”
For Surrogate Jeffrey H. Sutherland, “Cape May County Regular Democratic Organization.”
For Freeholder Walter Deegan, “Cape May County Regular Democratic Organization.”
In some municipalities members of the local governing body will be selected as will be members of the County Committee.
Contact Campbell at (609) 886-8600 Ext 28 or at: al.c@cmcherald.com