Richard Mroz

December 21, 2007 - 3:25am

Wilson won't contravene county organizations in ballot dustup

Republicans not endorsing former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani fretted yesterday that the GOP’s balloting procedure would unfairly impact their own presidential candidates, and fought an email war with the state party chairmen to try to get him to intervene.

What made the matter worse for some proud party members was having to watch the Democratic State Committee relinquish its prior commitment to giving establishment candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton the line A position virtually statewide.

They argued that while Republicans were essentially handing the ballot pole position to Giuliani, the Clinton-centric Democratic leadership was mercifully loosening its stranglehold on the process to allow rival campaigns to get an equal shot at the line.

"Why is it that the New Jersey GOP isn't following the Democratic State Committee’s lead in holding an open draw for presidential candidates?" Republican counsel Brian Nelson asked State Committee Chairman Tom Wilson. "Why are the Republicans still following the process the Democrats are abandoning?"

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January 7, 2008 - 5:17pm

McCain's NJ backers stirred by polls in New Hampshire

The polls in New Hampshire show Sen. John McCain holding a slight lead over former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, who was banged up in Iowa on his way into the granite state’s primary tomorrow.

N.J. State Director Richard Mroz said McCain’s candor and experience, particularly on foreign policy, distinguish him from Romney. Trying to turn that against him, Romney’s people have snickered about the craggy Arizona senator’s 70 plus years.

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