If Ortiz loses, blame Unanue

Rob was given the position of Bergen Chairman because he promised hope money and complete loyalty and unity. The people who started his campaign last year lost faith. Then the entire Bergen establishment in County Committee had enough. Its sad, Now a Chimp with a banana could win County Chair

not a very smart tactic putting blame on County Committee. Not very smart putting islamic militants like Hescham Mahmud on county committee either. What's next are you going to blame the mailman

It would be a different ballgame if Rudy had won the nomination, because Ortiz would have jumped ship by now for a national position and no longer be a BCRO candidate.

Each side will say the other is spinning but Patty D'Costanza said that night, only those who voted on Tuesday will vote again. I'd assume she is correct.

His Ego Ahead of the party http://www.theconservativeconsortium.com/commentary__opinion

Ortiz V. Yudin & the Bergen County republican chairman's race June 16th, 2008 Much to our amazement here at the Consortium, there are actually two men competing to head the train wreck commonly referred to as the Bergen County Republican Organization. The vote is tomorrow night. It is important to note before we go any further that the organization is barely Republican and is hardly organized. The two candidates are current chairman Rob Ortiz from Ridgewood and challenger Bob Yudin from Wyckoff. Rob Ortiz came out of nowhere about ten months ago. To our knowledge, Rob Ortiz was largely an un-known entity to those who were active on County Committee . He was some big money man for George W. Bush. He was the flavor of the month for the establishment folks. Party Crashers as we call them. The same ones who supported Estabrook, then Unanue and currently Zimmer for Senate. Since his election Mr. Ortiz has essentially written the book on what not to do if you are elected BCRO chairman. His first lesson was that raising money for a sitting President of the United States and for a bunch of local out of power Republican candidates are two starkly different tasks. Ortiz proceeded to unilaterally put the organizations support behind the now failed presidential bid of Rudy Giuliani. Then there was his personal recruitment and advocacy of the disastrous Andy Unanue for the United States Senate.This recruitment occured after his county committee had voted and put their support behind N.J. State Senator Joe Pennachio. Ortiz even traveled the state and campaigned on Unanue's behalf. These actions screamed of contempt and arrogance for his county committee members. He never appeared to reach out to the rank and file , never attended many functions or club meetings. He showed a lack of interest and desire to forge the personal relationships necessary to be a successful chairman. He remains largely unknown through every fault of his own. We don't know if he was getting bad advice from inexperienced people or he was just too inexperienced himself to know any better. Mr. Ortiz alienated himself from the organization and failed to build a solid base of support at the grassroots level. Bob Yudin has worked the County Committee organization for years and is very well known throughout the Bergen County Republican Organization. As a candidate for Bergen County Freeholder he has earned the trust and respect of the rank and file members the old fashioned way- through hard work. One main difference between Yudin and Ortiz is motivational. Yudin wants the chairmanship to improve and strengthen the Republican Party in Bergen County. Mr. Ortiz wants to improve and strengthen his own lot. He put his ego ahead of the organization and in the words of Vice President Dick Cheney, he got burned "Big Time". from The Conservative Consortium

Why the poor mailman,? because some folks on County Committee got 5-6 mailings from Ortiz today. Wow more money spent by him in the Chairmans race than  he spent on Woi and Frank last year. its all about me. says the Chairman ooops sorry, Patti Di says he is not the chairman unless he wins.

It's a downright tragedy what has become of the BCRO.

As the Democrats run through Bergen County like the Huns across the crumbling Roman Empire, Republicans have a choice between dumb & dumber.

Additionally, you have failed, out-of-county politicos like Kevin O'Toole who had to spend $300K to beat Todd Calguire while Paul DiGaetano thinks his miserable gubernatorial campaign is some monument to change. All he's doing is keeping his hat in the ring anticipating a much different District 36 come reapportionment!

Ortiz has had no success and his taking credit for the Hipp win in Rutherford is almost laughable. Had Ortiz had any political sense he would have fully funded Mike Guarino in the state senate race and at the worst picked up an assembly seat there.

At the same time, Bob Yudin is one of these political amateurs who thinks having a seventy town strategy is how Republicans win again. He actually thinks the GOP can win in 37 versus building upon what little success you've had in 39 & 40.

What makes this all the more amusing is that the Bergen GOP has alienated the one guy who could actually help them politically which is Scott Garrett. Ironically, he is winning the district in lopsided fashions outside of Bergen while Republicans in the county still think "he's too conservative."

In Ortiz, you have a guy in bed with Trump, Xanadu and EnCap. How can he possibly lead when he's unable or unwilling to take on obvious winning issues?

But Yudin is the localized version of Jack Kemp thinking Republicans could win in Harlem if they had a message!

This race is a disaster and I can't quite figure out who will put the final nail in the BCRO coffin.

Vote Column "A" - All the way!

Its quite obvious you have never read the hate mail from this individual in the Record. Another kool aid drinker