CLERMONT — Cape May County Republican committee people cast their ballots on Sat., April 9 for the First Legislative District slate, and the winners were: David DeWeese, for state Senate with 89 votes; Suaznne Walters, 131 votes and Sam Fiocchi, 102 votes.
The morning-long convention at Abbie Holmes House in Woodland Village, on Route 9, was the second part to the Cape May County Republican Convention that was necessitated by the redrawing of the state Legislative District map because of population changes indicated by the 2010 U.S. Census.
The trio of candidates on the slate will appear at 2 p.m. on Mon., April 11 at the Cape May County Clerk’s office to present their petitions for primary election.
County GOP Chairman Michael Donohue urged his party members to join the petitioners as they filed on April 11. He also urged them to be a part of the Governor’s Town Hall meeting at the Cape May County Airport on Tue., April 12 at Naval Air Station Wildwood’s Hangar No. 1.
State Sen. Senator Michael J. Doherty (R-23rd) Warren County, delivered the keynote address in place of Sen. Thomas Kean Jr., who had a family emergency, and could not attend.
Doherty urged the committee people to get out the vote, and to help elect the legislative team, which would aid Gov. Chris Christie in delivering his reforms, something that, Doherty said, the governor was not receiving from the present Democratic team.
Donohue read the results of the morning vote:
For Senate: David DeWeese, 89, Troy Ferus, 38, Tom Greto, 21.
For Assembly: Suzanne Walters, 131, Sam Fiocchi, 102, Peter Boyce, 37.
DeWeese is an attorney and former municipal judge.
Walters is mayor of Stone Harbor.
Fiocchi is a Cumberland County freeholder.
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