Holmdel Township Committeeman Terence Wall has announced his candidacy for freeholder. GOP committee members have reported being robo-called with a message from Wall's wife, Jeanne.
The message states that Wall, a supporter of Freeholder Theodore J. Narozanick, waited until Narozanick announced his decision not to run for another term before declaring his candidacy.
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did wall find the tape yet?
dear mr. roosevelt and "airbather":
so it looks like terence does have a fan club after all.
are there meetings and t-shirts or is it just a signed picture and a button you can wear on your jacket?
i think terence has a lot of experience in county committee contests and when it comes to running against a kleinberg or someone from ocean no one has ever heard of he has to be taken seriously. the "hardliners" i've seen in the gop are long on talk and short on walk. propoganda stuff hasn't been winning you boys many elections, but i'm sure that doing more of the same is going to change all of that.
here's a thought: if terence had all that many detractors, he wouldn't have been able to deliver fred's election.
he can be beaten, just not by anyone who is on the board right now. he's a known quantity to the county committee. the other names so far aren't. and frankly, the gop's bench is pretty shallow these days. must be y'all ran a few too many people "out on a rail" after a good, sound "tarring and feathering."
maybe a good strategy is to tar and feather everyone who doesn't agree with fred and the "let us redevelop your town" crew. i'm sure that strategy is working. winning is really secondary to "ideology."
hey, i know what can stop all of this: toilet humor. That will do it! maybe call him "smelly terence" (did i just trip upon a campaign strategy?). indeed, call him names AND don't talk to him in the cafeteria either...that'll show him.
by the way, this is just a question. if terence is responsible for turning holmdel democrat, then how come he's the most veteran member of the governing body?
yes, it must be the voting machines. did you say "dangling chads"? good gravy, something has to be done about this!
i agree, kleinberg or the nameless ocean guy. that's the ticket. i'm sure that will work out swell.
There's no question that Terence is controversial. He is also well known and knows how to run a campaign. He could win the nomination, but I'm not convinced he can win in November.
I'd like to see Bob McKenna, Tom Ball and Mel Hall enter this race.
TR, I removed your pose on request of a commenter who I believe to be close to the candidate. It went a little over the top with some of the adjectives used.
There are certainly many items where Wall can be criticized, but let's not bring back a "Howellanche" environment here.
I see my post was removed.
I geuss the truth can not be handled
Mr Purcell all I can say is you are a bad judge of character.
Terrance Wall would destroy the GOP.
To put it simply he is a bad person and character does count.
By the way It is a stretch to say he delivered Freds election.
Please, PLEEEEEEEEASE, nominate this man!
no, it's really not a stretch to say he delivered fred's election.
terence was one of several. the same could be said of john bennett, bob mckenna, jim gianell, mel hood, bill dangler, the lanes, steve grossman, norine kelly and mary foley.
it wasn't fred. it wasn't some omnipresent spirit. every committee person had to be called. press had to be handled. a web site had to be made. campaign volunteers (trustees) had to be lined up, assembled and announced.
there was a lot of media and a candidate who couldn't win his own district committee seat in wall township who aspired to replace the winningest gop chairman in the history of the county (who is also basically brilliant).
by the time that fred had gone anywhere to speak, every member of the republican committee from that town had already read a newspaper, been online or gotten a telephone call. and fred had absolutely nothing to do with that.
The chairmanship dropped into his lap off the hard work of good republicans. then he proceeded to basically spit in their face every chance he had, with notable exception.
Abe, I fail to see why a post should be removed because some one complained about the adjectives used but it is your blog. Instead lets discuss a partial list about all the things Wall has done.
Ran a primary against Mike Arnone and Claire Farragher. Two loyal and good legislators. After Serena said she was running for freeholder he immediatly sent out a phone call on his Robo mailer saying he was supporting rosemary Peters. I then recieved a call from Rosemary where she said she had not even decided to run yet.
Then he made hideous allegations against Serena but never produced the proof he claimed to have.
He threatened people who lived in Holmdel who disagreed with him on a policy issue. He was censured by the Holmdel Council. He once circulated an email accussing a member of the party of stealing campaign materials, an allegation I found difficult to believe.
That is just the crap I have heard about.
Does anyone not on LSD or drunk really think the party should have anything to do with this guy.
You know, the GOP has a lot of shady characters in it. Terence doesn't make money off of politics like the leaches and crows that feed off of bonding or the engineering contracts or stuff like that.
He makes his living as an administrator, who is doing a good job for Keansburg, according to the folks I talked to there.
I don't know about this tape stuff, but I would like to know what the big deal is about primarying someone. In this day and age, everyone is getting primaried. No one clucked about Handlin primarying Joe Azzolina. It's just someone trying to get ahead. Maybe it was a little rude, but then again that was also a very long time ago.
As for the Holmdel infighting thing: Who really cares about it if Holmdel Republicans can't get along? That's internal stuff between people. If Terence ticked off Serena, so what? She ticks him off, he ticks her off...big deal.
Serena is a Holmdel phenomenon and that's great. But what does her being upset at something have to do with the price of tea in China when it comes to a county race?
Wall has put in a lot of time on the county scene working for the party. He has a lot of people that support him and he's done an awful lot for people in the party and for candidates that have asked his help.
JIM PURCELL IS HEAR BY CHARGED WITH EXCEDING THE MAXIMUM WORD LIMIT IN A TEN SYLABLE ZONE!
HE IS REMINDED THAT ALL WORDY TOM FOOLEREY SHOULD BE LEFT TO HIS THURSDAY COLUMN!
-SEARGEANT TOM FOOLEREY
Well, anyone else? Is the field full?
novaseline:
do you feel really intelligent when you wake up in the morning? you seem to have an incredible grasp of the issues, and your incisiveness is just blowing me away. your facts, your conclusions...hey, you should be working in one of those brain trusts in washington. the gop did well when it recruited you, sir.
personally, i see your posyts as invaluable.
Mr. Purcell ,
All of these thing that Terrance has engaged in the lying the overreaching the bullying all point to serious Character defects.
Do you even know why he was censured in Holmdel? Perhaps you should do some investigative reporting. That is what you do isn't it?
He does not make money of Politics? How do you think he got the Job in Keansburg. Certainly not based on prior experience.
Elephants_not_donkeys addressed...
"Jim Purcell..., you are also aware that Terence approached your Chairman and offered to run against Joe Kryllos (sic.), correct?"
Interesting. Care to elaborate on that? I've heard similar stories, but no proof. If you have anything more could you back this up?
Yeah, Wall approached the Dem. chairman to primary Kyrillos the same way he manufactured a tape recording of Kyrillos, right? Both statements appeared in the same article. Except the second statement is patently false, so how much truth could the first have?
They were rumors that Ms. DiMaso threw out there haphazardly when, I assume, she felt like Wall had backed her into a corner.
It's highly unlikely that Wall would plan to challenge Kyrillos as a Democrat and then run as a Republican for freeholder. A little common sense, people -- come on. At least a rumor about Wall primarying Kyrillos would have run on a logical train of thought.
I find some Mon. Republicans Fear of Wall (FOW) strangely amusing. Reacting emotionally hasn't gotten you guys anywhere. You were so eager to throw out Dowd that you didn't think it through and woundup with Chairman Spray-on Tan over there.
If you're gonna criticize Wall put something of substance there, not this weird paranoia that pervades. Some element of a thoughtful debate or well-thought out criticism would go a long way to getting your point across (see Abe's Clarence Hall parody).
OK for all those interested... Terence Wall has not approached Victor Scudiery about running as a democrat in any way. I know victor, I asked victor and victor doesn;'t know what i was talking about.
the tapes: whuat i meant is that i haven't really vested any time into it. there wasn't a story there for me without the tapes themselves. so i wasn't going to print anything based on a rather public argument that didn't amount to anything. with that said, i don't know that there aren't tapes but the whole thing seems kind of peripheral.
everyone in this thing has done or said something that has ticked someone else off. who gets their feathers ruffled along the way isn't really a big deal.
but there is politics and then there is governance. terence plays politics hard, maybe harder than some people would like, but at the end of the day he has a good voting record in holmdel and he has done some good things in his town and in the county. as for keansburg, he's doing a good job there.
ask any good administrator, who does it for a living, if they are in politics and they'll tell you "no." They are in the business of government. terence is a town manager and that's government. frankly, having spoken to several administrators about the keansburg job while it was still pending, i was told that "no administrator of any background would take the job the way it is." well, he's had success and that's clear.
As the real TR would say BULLY GENTS.
Lets hear it boys. Get the word out. let the people know the truth about Terrance.
Who else has a good Terrance story.
I will offer a $25 dollar prize for the best Terrance story that is verfiable.
Jackie Corley addressed...
"Chairman Spray-on Tan"
That's a keeper! ROFLMAO!
Teddy Roosevelt addressed...
"...best Terrance story that is verfiable."
The operative word here being verifiable." If there's no verification don't bother posting stuff. I ran into this with the Howell people and I'm not about to have it happen again.
Jackie Corley said...
"Yeah, Wall approached the Dem. chairman to primary Kyrillos the same way he manufactured a tape recording of Kyrillos, right? Both statements appeared in the same article. Except the second statement is patently false, so how much truth could the first have?
They were rumors that Ms. DiMaso threw out there haphazardly when, I assume, she felt like Wall had backed her into a corner.
It's highly unlikely that Wall would plan to challenge Kyrillos as a Democrat and then run as a Republican for freeholder. A little common sense, people -- come on. At least a rumor about Wall primarying Kyrillos would have run on a logical train of thought.
I find some Mon. Republicans Fear of Wall (FOW) strangely amusing. Reacting emotionally hasn't gotten you guys anywhere. You were so eager to throw out Dowd that you didn't think it through and woundup with Chairman Spray-on Tan over there.
If you're gonna criticize Wall put something of substance there, not this weird paranoia that pervades. Some element of a thoughtful debate or well-thought out criticism would go a long way to getting your point across (see Abe's Clarence Hall parody). "
Ooohhh Jackie, if only you were 120 years older.....
I probably shouldn't have been so flip, but I couldn't help myself before clicking the comment box.
But honestly, how does a chairman show up to a Republican Unity Rally with Doug Forrester as the keynote speaker, have on Bermuda shorts and sunglasses and expect to ever be taken seriously?
Before the "Holmdellanche" goes any further...
Elephants_not_donkeys, do you in fact have anything to verify about this alleged meeting between Terence Wall and Vic Scudiery? You say that Jim Purcell wasn't there; were you? Facts, please?
Jackie Corley said...
"But honestly, how does a chairman show up to a Republican Unity Rally with Doug Forrester as the keynote speaker, have on Bermuda shorts and sunglasses and expect to ever be taken seriously? "
If fainess to Fred, that is something of MCGOP Chair tradition. I've seen Dowd similarly dressed. At least Fred's hair was combed.
First off, I keep hearing about how I'm the Democratic Chairman of Union Beach: I am not, that is Ken Connors. I am a former Democratic Chairman of Union Beach. I turned the job over to Ken. My part was just re-establishing the party there as an entity to give people a choice. After that, I stepped away.
I was a long-time Republican and I worked on behalf of Republicans at every level of organization for many years before I became a Democrat. I became a Democrat becuase this administration (county and state) have issues in my opinion, that I knew as fact and I wasn't going to live with it. I have no "vendetta" against Republicans...they're most of my friends. It's just I'm not going to be in the same party as some of the crooks I'm aware of.
With that said, most Republicans are great people and great Americans...only a small fraction are not (like the Dems). But, I know a lot of the crooks in the GOP and a lot of those are in Monmouth (dispersed among good Republicans and good Americans). All of this "Thou shall speak no harm..." nonsense is garbage.
Still, I would rather a good Repubilcan won rather than a bad Democrat and I would want a good Democrat defeat a bad Republican. The best of all worlds is served by four good candidates for office, any one of whom are worthy to serve and deserve to do so.
So, I comment on both sides of the aisle based on what I know about candidates, irrespective of affiliation.
The tapes...I didn't report on them in the newspaper. Why would I do so in any other outlet? It's not an issue for me... either against Mayor DiMaso or against Committeeman Wall. It's a feud. I haven't commented on any internal feuds in towns, despite this being relatively good "gossip." Frankly, I don't see how gossip helps select people. Everyone has someone that doesn't like them...so what? I've even heard a few people don't like me and I don't lose any sleep.
Serena and Terence don't like each other. OK, got it. Next... He said this, she said that -- it's a distraction.
In this environment, Republicans are far more likely to attack each other rather than Democrats (first-hand on that one). As a strategy, it isn't sensible. By the way, neither is putting up caniddates with financial interests directly tied to office (and that's happening). Guys like Wall, DeSeno and some others in the field aren't going to tie politics and making money. That's something to think about.
Okay, folks. I believe everything that could be said on this thread has been. It's getting repetitious.
Terence Wall is a controversial individual and right or wrong he is comfortable in his own skin.
As we move toward the convention issues will be raised relative to him as well as the other candidates. Each candidate will have the opportunity to deal with the issues.
To those of you who don't think Wall should be a candidate for freeholder this year, if you're County Committee, vote for another candidate. It's that simple.
Terence Wall has left his phone number here if anybody has any questions. If you're interested, he encourages you to call him.
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