June 24, 2007 - 12:19pm
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Bergen County GOP moves to pick new leader

Rob Ortiz bannerIN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Bergen County GOP moves to pick new leader 

...More than 100 county committee members assembled at party headquarters in Hackensack to hear briefly from the early favorite, 35-year-old Ridgewood lawyer Robert Ortiz, as well as two party veterans, 57-year-old political consultant Bill Thomson of Washington Township and 64-year-old Ben Focarino of Garfield, who owns a leather coat business.

County Clerk Kathleen Donovan and former Freeholder Lisa Randall endorsed Ortiz last week, adding their names to a list that includes several Bergen elected officials and former County Executive William "Pat" Schuber...

Ortiz said he had raised a lot of money for both national and state Republican candidates and would do the same in Bergen.

"Now is the time for an influx of new ideas and new people," he said.

According to party bylaws, the more than 1,300 elected county committee members must choose a new leader within 45 days of Talarico's resignation.

-- Jim Wright in The Record, Sunday, June 24, 2007

Full text of article is available at northjersey.com

For more information about Rob Ortiz, please visit www.draftrob.com

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