The Unofficial (Official) Numbers From Tuesday Night's Democratic Reorg

As everyone knows by now, this past Tuesday night the Monmouth County Democrats held their reorganization meeting at the Shore Casino in Atlantic Highland and Vin Gopal was elected to serve as the party's Chairman for the next two year.

It was a hard fought contest between Gopal and Frank LaRocca in which each party spent their money like drunken sailors on shore leave (rumored to be well over $35K each) to succeed the retiring Chairman, Victor Scudiery.

The one question that people keep asking me however is whether or not all that money was well spent or could it have been put to better use helping to fund this year's County races? Unfortunately that's a question that can't be answered right now but what can be answered now is, how did county committee people vote? I know because I have the unofficial /official breakdown of Tuesday night's vote count.

I received the vote count Tuesday night right after the results were announced  but didn't outright publish them because I thought what was the point? It really didn't matter, Vin Gopal received 73% of the 599 votes cast, there was no need.

But seeing how people are curious and there has been all kinds of inaccurate numbers being thrown out there by supports of each Gopal and LaRocca, exaggerating both the margins of victory and defeat, I thought that I should set the record straight so that supporters of each camp can come together and unite towards the common goal of winning in November.

So here are the numbers:


Gopal 439
Foster 419
Pulido 429
Tarantolo 423
Brown 428
Caliendo 428

LaRocca 160
Aaronson 175
Mangan 161
Tarantolo 159
Lee 159
Solomeno 161

Now, let's get back to business, it's time to unite as a party and unruffle the feathers. It's time to support the Democratic County Candidate slate of Shea, Lavan and Steinhorn as their campaigns gear up and we need to get behind and support Vin Gopal and the rest of his leadership team to ensure victory over their Republican rivals.