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WHO THE HECK IS RIK MEHTA?

By Randy Bergmann

Labor Day marked the unofficial end of the COVID summer as well as the unofficial start in earnest of the political campaign season.

The period between Labor Day and Election Day is when voters begin paying more attention to who’s running for which office and trying to catch up on the issues.

Read the rest of this entry » Posted: September 8th, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: 2020 Congressional Races, 2020 Presidential Politics, 2020 U.S. Senate Race, New Jersey, Opinion | Tags: , , , | 1 Comment »

Rik Mehta wins U.S. Senate endorsement from Monmouth GOP

Dr. Rikin Mehta was endorsed by the Monmouth County Republican Committee for the GOP nomination to unseat Senator Cory Booker this morning at the committee’s annual nominating convention at iPlayAmerica in Freehold Township.

Mehta bested Natalie Rivera and Hirsh Singh, earning 56% (128) of the 230 votes cast. Rivera won the support of 32% (74) of the delegates and Singh 12% (28). 12 delegates present did not cast a vote in the U.S. Senate contest, according to parliamentarian John Lane.

The pharmaceutical entrepreneur/regulator and attorney is undefeated in County GOP contests after also winning Burlington County’s endorsement this morning. He has previously won the endorsements to the Union, Somerset, Hunterdon and Camden GOP organizations.

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Posted: February 8th, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: 2020 U.S. Senate Race, Monmouth County News, New Jersey | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments »

Palatucci shows Rik Mehta around the Golden Gala

By Art Gallagher

Shaun Golden and U.S. Senate candidate Rik Mehta at the Golden Gala

Bill Palatucci, New Jersey’s Republican National Committeeman, was showing U.S. Senate candidate Rik Mehta around the Golden Era Gala on Friday night, which surprised me because Hirsh Singh has been touting the Republican National Commiteeman’s endorsement for the nomination to take on Senator Cory Booker for months.

“I’m trying to get Eli Manning to run,” I told Palatucci when he asked me if I knew Mehta.  Bill laughed and without missing a beat said, “Is that going to happen?  Just it case it doesn’t, you should know Rik Methta.” Read the rest of this entry »

Posted: February 2nd, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: 2020 U.S. Senate Race, New Jersey, NJ GOP | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments »

Mehta’s U.S. Senate campaign shake up

NJ GOP Chairman Doug Steinhardt and U.S. Senate candidate Rik Mehta. photo via Mehta’s facebook page, cropped by MMM

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rik Mehta’s campaign owes “a significant amount of money from the Primary with no plan to deal with it,” according to a leaked confidential email from Ron Gravino, the campaign’s former treasurer.

Read the rest of this entry » Posted: August 14th, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: 2020 U.S. Senate Race, New Jersey, NJ GOP | Tags: , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Mehta limps to victory in U.S.Senate primary

Monmouth County saves Mehta’s candidacy

Rik Mehta

Now that all the votes that are going to be counted have been delivered, it looks as though Rik Mehta has survived his own embarrasing campaign and a spirited clown show by Hirsh Singh to win the Republican nomination of U.S. Senate.

There are late arriving and provisional ballots yet to be counted, but Mehta’s 11,290 vote margin against Singh will probably hold.

Read the rest of this entry » Posted: July 15th, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: 2020 U.S. Senate Race, New Jersey | Tags: , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

Mehta Wins Middlesex GOP Line for U.S. Senate

Rik Mehta

Rik Mehta, a former Food and Drug Administration official. won the Middlesex County GOP endorsement for U.S. Senate in online balloting that was tabulated this afternoon. Mehta’s name will appear below President Trump’s on the ballot in Middlesex in the Republican primary on June 2.

The Middlesex Republican nominating convention, originally scheduled for March 14, was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Delegates voted online with balloting closing at midnight on the 14th, GOP Chairwoman Lucille Panos told MMM.  The Middlesex GOP Executive committee tabulated and certified the votes today.

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Posted: March 15th, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: 2020 U.S. Senate Race, New Jersey, News | Tags: , , , , , | Comments Off on Mehta Wins Middlesex GOP Line for U.S. Senate

Gilmore to remain free while appeals continue

George Gilmore photo by Art Gallagher

Former Ocean County GOP Chairman George Gilmore is continuing the appeals process for his convictions of failing to pay taxes deducted from his employees paychecks to the IRS and for lying on a loan application to Oceansfirst Bank, according to a report at NewJerseyGlobe.

Read the rest of this entry » Posted: December 9th, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: 2021 NJ Gubernatorial race, George Gilmore, NJ GOP, Ocean County | Tags: , , | Comments Off on Gilmore to remain free while appeals continue

Monmouth County Remains Red

With 87% of the mail-in ballots counted, Monmouth County is one of only 7 New Jersey Counties that voted Republican in 2020.

Early returns in the unprecedented paper ballot election indicated that Democrats had scored an upset in the County that reliably votes Republican despite a registration advantage for Democrats. On Election Night, former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Cory Booker and the Democrat Freeholder candidates were leading the paper ballot count. Congressman Chris Smith and County Clerk Christine Giordano Hanlon were the only Republicans leading above the municipal level.

Read the rest of this entry » Posted: November 8th, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: Middlesex County Republicans, Monmouth County News | Tags: , | Comments Off on Monmouth County Remains Red

Republican gains continue in Monmouth returns

Ross Licitra, Lillian Burry and Christine Giordano Hanlon

Monmouth County Republicans have recovered from the shock of seeing Democrats leading the ballot counts on Election Day and are getting ready to celebrate.

With 296,966 ballots reported at 5:05 on Friday afternoon, Republican County candidates are showing the dominant leads that the GOP has enjoyed in Monmouth for many years.

Read the rest of this entry » Posted: November 6th, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: Monmouth County | Tags: , , , , , | Comments Off on Republican gains continue in Monmouth returns

The Fat Lady Still Won’t Singh

Hirsh Singh

General election ballots is some parts of New Jersey will be in the mail next week, but Hirsh Singh, a loser in the July 7th Republican U.S. Senate primary, is still fighting to get the Rik Mehta’s nomination to take on Senator Cory Booker overturned.

Singh hasn’t been able to get a Superior Court Judge in any New Jersey County to authorize a recount of the primary results. Yet, this morning he announced that he has filed an official contest of the primary.

Read the rest of this entry » Posted: September 4th, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: 2020 U.S. Senate Race, New Jersey | Tags: , , , | Comments Off on The Fat Lady Still Won’t Singh