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Wisconsin voters took legal action against their states five largest cities on Wednesday over the illegal use of unmanned drop boxes during the 2020 election.

Filed by the Thomas More Society on behalf of voters against Green Bay, Kenosha, Madison, Milwaukee, and Racine, the legal complaints allege that city officials ignored state law by implementing unmanned drop boxes over the course of the 2020 cycle.

In 2020, the cities of Milwaukee, Madison, Racine, Kenosha, and Green Bay made an agreement with the nonprofit Center for Tech and Civic Life [CTCL] to use the drop boxes to get these cities residents to vote, said Thomas More Society Special Counsel Erick Kaardal in a press release. This so-calledWisconsin Safe Voting Plan, involved $8.8 million of private grants to these five cities, to target specific populations to vote. It had little, if anything at all to do with keeping voters safe from Covid-19, as it purported to do.

During the 2020 election, CTCL received $400 million from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to finance the infiltration of election offices at the city and county level by left-wing activists and use them as a platform to implement preferred administrative practices, voting methods, and data-sharing agreements, as well as to launch intensive outreach campaigns in areas heavy with Democratic voters, in the words of William Doyle in The Federalist.

According to a report from the Capital Research Center, CTCL distributed a total of 31 grants above the $5,000 minimum to Wisconsin cities and townships, with 28 going directly to specific cities rather than counties.

Out of those 28 grants just 8 of the recipient localities were won by Trump, while 20 were won by Biden, the report reads. Together, these 20 cities received $9 million or 90 percent of all CTCL funds in Wisconsin.

The Capital Research Center findings also reveal that [f]or grants over $5,000, 9 of CTCLs 10 largest per capita grants went to cities which Biden won, with Racine ($21.83), Green Bay ($11.60), Kenosha ($8.63), Milwaukee ($5.91), and Madison ($4.71) receiving the most out of all localities in the state.

The lawsuits from Wisconsin voters come after the Wisconsin Elections Commission refused last month to launch investigations into the five cities for their use of unmanned drop boxes, despite a January ruling from a Waukesha County Circuit Court judge saying that such drop boxes and ballot harvesting violate state law and cannot be used in the upcoming midterm elections.

Its all good and nice, but theres no authority to do it, Judge Michael Bohren said with respect to the use of drop boxes.

Shawn Fleetwood is an intern at The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He also serves as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood

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Wisconsin Voters File Lawsuits Against Democrat Cities Over Illegal Drop Box Use In 2020 Election - The Federalist

ATLANTA Standing at the pulpit of Ebenezer Baptist Church, the spiritual home of Martin Luther King Jr., the Rev. Raphael Warnock led a sermon on the last Sunday before Georgias Tuesday primaries that was about getting to where you need to go and navigating the challenges ahead.

Rise up and transform every opposition, every obstacle, into an opportunity, Mr. Warnock urged. He was not explicitly talking about his other job as a United States senator, or the fact that he is one of the most endangered Democrats in the country in 2022, or the headwinds confronting his party. But he might as well have been.

Dont you dare sleep on Tuesday, he said.

For months, nearly all the political oxygen in Georgia and beyond has been sucked up by ferocious Republican primaries, intraparty feuds that have become proxy wars for Donald J. Trumps power and fueled by his retribution agenda. But the ugliness of the G.O.P. infighting has at times obscured a political landscape that is increasingly tilted in the Republican direction in Georgia and nationally.

Democrats were excited for Stacey Abrams, the former state legislator and voting-rights activist, to jump into the 2022 governors race, promising a potential rematch of the 2018 contest she only narrowly lost. Mr. Warnock has emerged not only as a compelling speaker but also as one of his partys strongest fund-raisers. Yet the growing fear for Democrats is that even the strongest candidates and recruits can outrun President Bidens wheezing approval ratings by only so much, and are at risk of getting washed away in a developing red wave.

I think 2020 was a referendum on Trump, said Ashley Fogle, a 44-year-old Democrat who lives in Atlanta and attended Ebenezer church on Sunday. I just dont know if theres that same energy in 2022.

Already, a Republican-led remapping in Georgia has effectively erased one Democratic House seat and made another vulnerable, as the Republican advantage in the state delegation could balloon to 10-4, from the current 8-6 edge.

The challenges facing Democrats are cyclical and structural.

The Democratic majorities on Capitol Hill could scarcely be narrower. The party in power almost always loses in a presidents first midterm election even absent the current overlapping national crises, some of which are beyond Mr. Bidens control.

Gasoline prices just hit their highest level ever nationwide over the weekend. The presidents approval rating plunged in an Associated Press poll to a new low of 39 percent. The stock market dropped for the seventh consecutive week. Violent crime rates have spiked. A baby formula shortage has alarmed parents. And inflation remains high.

The problem is not messaging the problem is reality, said Representative Ritchie Torres, Democrat of New York, citing inflation as the greatest obstacle to retaining the majority.

The greatest hope for Democrats appears to be potential Republican acts of self-sabotage: the party nominating outside-the-mainstream candidates or failing to coalesce after divisive primaries.

In Washington, much of the Biden agenda is frozen in a congressional morass. The partys left wing and centrists are busily blaming each other for the state of affairs and clashing over what to do next, with student loan forgiveness emerging as one divisive flashpoint.

Inside the White House, whose political operation has been a subject of quiet griping in some corners for months, a furious effort is afoot to reframe the 2022 elections as a choice between the two parties, rather than a referendum on Democratic rule. Anita Dunn, an aggressive operator and longtime Biden adviser, has rejoined the administration to sharpen its messaging.

The Democratic base is quite demoralized at this moment, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, one of the partys leading progressive voices, put it bluntly.

If Georgia was the scene of the highest highs for Democrats in the 2020 cycle turning blue at the presidential level for the first time since 1992, flipping two Senate seats to cement control of the chamber and providing Democrats their only tightly contested House pickup in the nation it is not clear whether the ideologically sprawling and multiracial Biden coalition that unified to oust Mr. Trump is replicable.

Energized Black voters, moderate white suburbanites, Asian Americans and some Hispanic Americans all played a role in propelling Democratic victories in the state in 2020 and 2021, while some of the rural Republican base stayed home in the January Senate runoffs.

This fall, Mr. Warnock is expected to face Herschel Walker, the Republican former football star with scant political experience. Mr. Warnock has already begun leveraging a $23 million war chest to tell voters that he feels their pain and to make plain the limits of his power as a freshman senator.

People are hurting. People are tired, Mr. Warnock said in his first television ad this year. More recently, he took a different approach, almost pleading with disaffected voters: Im not a magician.

Representative Carolyn Bourdeaux, whose Georgia district was redrawn after she captured what had been a Republican-held seat in 2020, is now facing a primary on Tuesday against Representative Lucy McBath outside Atlanta. Ms. Bourdeaux, a moderate, had a warning for her party.

They need to do more to communicate clearly with voters that they are a steady hand at the wheel of getting the economy back on track for people, Ms. Bourdeaux said. But she, too, saw a chance to draw a sharp contrast with what she cast as ascendant far-right Republicans. The other side, candidly, has lost its mind, she said, pointing to efforts to restrict voting rights and abortion rights.

In the Republican race for governor, Gov. Brian Kemp has been locked in a primary with former Senator David Perdue, who was recruited by Mr. Trump. The former president remains angry at the governor for certifying the 2020 election and, according to people close to him, unlikely to ever endorse Mr. Kemp.

Ms. Abrams has emerged as a national star among Democrats. But privately Democratic strategists fear that her high-water mark might have come in 2018, when she lost in a Democratic wave year.

Most polling shows a close race for governor and Senate, with a slight Republican advantage.

As general-election matchups come into focus, Mr. Bidens advisers argue that there is still time to crystallize a clear choice between the president and congressional Democrats, and the other side. Republicans have already elevated candidates like State Senator Doug Mastriano, a far-right 2020 election denier who is the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania. And as the Supreme Court appears poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, many Republicans have embraced stringent anti-abortion positions, views that are often out of step with the majority of Americans, polling shows.

Democrats are seeking to cast Republican candidates as extremists more consumed with culture wars than finding solutions to the nations most pressing problems, and the presidents advisers and allies say Democrats will continue to push the message that they are doing everything possible to lower prices.

But Ms. Bourdeaux, who is locked in a primary battle of her own, said that the kind of Democratic intraparty infighting that youre seeing right now complicates the partys messaging.

Mr. Warnock told his congregation he met with Mr. Biden at the White House, putting up a photo on the screen of a selfie he took with a picture of Ebenezer Baptist Church that hung in the halls of the West Wing.

Why are these midterms so important? This years races could tip the balance of power in Congress to Republicans, hobbling President Bidens agenda for the second half of his term. They will also test former President Donald J. Trumps role as a G.O.P. kingmaker. Heres what to know:

What are the midterm elections? Midterms take place two years after a presidential election, at the midpoint of a presidential term hence the name. This year, a lot of seats are up for grabs, including all 435 House seats, 35 of the 100 Senate seats and 36 of 50 governorships.

What do the midterms mean for Biden? With slim majorities in Congress, Democrats have struggled to pass Mr. Bidens agenda. Republican control of the House or Senate would make the presidents legislative goals a near-impossibility.

What are the races to watch? Only a handful of seats will determine if Democrats maintain control of the House over Republicans, and a single state could shift power in the 50-50 Senate. Here are 10 races to watch in the Houseand Senate, as well as several key governors contests.

When are the key races taking place? The primary gauntletis already underway. Closely watched racesin Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia will be held in May, with more taking place through the summer. Primaries run until September before the general election on Nov. 8.

Go deeper. What is redistrictingand how does it affect the midterm elections? How does polling work? How do you register to vote? Weve got more answers to your pressing midterm questions here.

My message was very plain: Mr. President, we need student debt relief, Mr. Warnock said.

That issue, in particular, has divided the White House into factions including Mr. Biden himself who has both expressed opposition to perceived giveaways to college-educated elites and said he was considering wiping out some debts. Progressives have pushed for sweeping loan forgiveness to motivate the base.

James Carville, the veteran Democratic political strategist, castigated Mr. Bidens Democratic critics more broadly, especially those on the left. Pick up 20 Twitter followers, and you lose two House seats, he said.

An A.P. poll on Friday showed only 21 percent of Americans believed the country was headed in the right direction. A CBS News/YouGov survey on Sunday showed 65 percent of Americans said Mr. Biden was slow to react to important issues and events. And his approval rating among Democrats was at just 73 percent in the A.P. survey.

If I had hair to catch fire, Mr. Carville said, it would catch fire.

Symone Sanders, a former top Biden aide now with MSNBC, sought to deflect blame outside the White House. Where is the D.C.C.C., the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic National Committee, hell, the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee? she said on a recent New York Times podcast, adding, Thats what Im saying. I dont know. I dont work there.

In an episode that exposed the depth of the alarm for Democrats, the lawmaker who oversees the House Democratic strategy and the man perhaps most responsible for recruiting reluctant candidates into tough races himself took refuge into a safer district in New York last week, after a court-ordered redrawing of the states lines.

The decision by Representative Sean Patrick Maloney, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman, flared both ideological and racial tensions inside the caucus. Republicans looked on with glee.

The fact that you have senior members abandoning their districts to run against their own colleagues, I think that shows you how toxic this environment is, said Representative Tom Emmer, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

In Georgia, Kevin Pearson, a retired firefighter and Ebenezer congregant, has been volunteering with voter-registration efforts and is concerned that hes seen Mr. Warnock trailing in some polls.

He urged vigilance, especially for Black voters. We take a step forward, and then we get pushed back, he said. But if we dont step forward, we get pushed two steps.

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The mass shooting on May 14 in Buffalo, New York, was an atrocity. The killer will pay in this life and the next one for his crime. Unfortunately, however, the Democratic Party, led by President Joe Biden and its allies in the corporate media, wasted no time weaponizing the slain victims.

The suspect left behind a 180-page document outlining a schizophrenic worldview. "On the political compass I fall in the mild-moderate authoritarian left category," he wrote, while expressing qualified support for the "LGB (drop the t)" community. More importantly, it also described the so-called "great replacement," the idea that, as conservative commentator Michael Knowles put it, "Democrats are using immigration policy to change the demographics of the United States in a way that would seem to help them politically."

Biden and company latched onto that part of the murderer's incoherent screed to pin the shooting on their political opponents, from Fox News to the GOP. In essence, Democrats argue that Republicans' rhetoric and positions on immigration radicalized the shooter.

But there's a small problem: Democrats and progressive activists, based on their own rhetoric over the years, subscribe to "replacement theory" more than anyone else. As vice president, Biden himself said that a "constant" and "unrelenting" stream of immigration would reduce Americans of "white European stock" to an "absolute minority," and that this was "a source of our strength."

Democrats weren't always so sanguine about demographic change, though.

Recall that the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) assured concerned Americans that the 1965 Hart-Celler immigration law would "not upset the ethnic mix of our society"it would not, in other words, result in demographic change. That kind of talk from a Democrat is unimaginable today. It was also, in retrospect, simply incorrect. The Hart-Celler Act, which ended nationality quotas in immigration policy, resulted in an influx of non-European newcomers, encouraged illegal immigration and drove rapid demographic shifts. "The people who moved here after the 1965 act made the United States a truly multicultural nation," NPR celebrated in 2015.

Obviously, Democrats have changed their tune since Kennedy's day, abandoning their historic political bloc of white working-class (oftentimes Catholic) voters for the so-called "coalition of the ascendant," in which immigrants are key. This is not a conspiracy theory; it "happens to be the same demographic argument Ruy Teixiera made in The Emerging Democratic Majority," as conservative commentator Ben Shapiro noted.

Shapiro is right, but there's more to it than that.

Teixeira published The Emerging Democratic Majority in 2004. That book argued, in his words, that Democrats should exploit "economic and demographic changes, including the growth of minority communities and cultural shifts among college graduates." And simply put, the "growth" of those communities has been due to policies that have facilitated mass migration. (It is worth also noting that Teixeira has said Democratic activists "bowdleriz[ed]" his thesis as part of their efforts to coalition-build on "identity politics.")

In 2013, Politico concluded that amnesty for millions of illegal aliens "would produce an electoral bonanza for Democrats and cripple Republican prospects in many states they now win easily." The following year, James G. Gimpel, a professor of government at the University of Maryland, College Park, published a study that found the "flow of legal immigrants into the country29.5 million from 1980 to 2012has remade and continues to remake the nation's electorate in favor of the Democratic Party."

A comprehensive report by the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution and the Center for American Progress came to a similar conclusion in 2016: In the long run, demography favors the Democrats. And in 2018, CNN host Michael Smerconish discussed with demographer Rogelio Saenz, over a chyron that read, "THE VANISHING WHITE AMERICAN," that demographic trends connected to immigration spell doom for the GOP.

All of this was viewed as a legitimate political strategy for Democrats, and was discussed in the cold language of hard political calculus. It took a harsher turn in the era of former President Donald Trump, who spoke to the anxieties of white working-class Americans. No group likes being told that it is the villain of history and deserving of dispossession. Trump's rise should have been a warning sign to Democrats and progressives to tone down the talk of demographic triumphalism. Instead, they dialed it up to eleven.

Looking back on Trump's election, New York Times opinion columnist Charles Blow reduced Trump's victory to "white extinction anxiety." He cheered that the 2020 Census showed "the browning of America, the shrinking of the white population and the explosion of the nonwhite." Jennifer Rubin, an opinion columnist for The Washington Post, echoed Blow, tweeting that the census results heralded "a more diverse, more inclusive society. She added: "[T]his is fabulous news. [N]ow we need to prevent minority White rule." If anyone is radicalizing people in this country, it's those who have so ostentatiously declared themselves to be on the "right side of history."

Whether and how much immigration is a good thing is a secondary question to the fact of Democrats' disingenuousness about so-called "great replacement theory": "It's not happening, and it's good that it is." Political scientist Michael Anton calls this the "celebration parallax," which states: "[T]he same fact pattern is either true and glorious or false and scurrilous depending on who states it."

Buffalo was a terrible tragedy, but it cannot be weaponized like this. No group has more openly discussed exploiting demographics and immigration for political gain than the Democratic Party, along with its liberal allies in the corporate media. So to their hypocrisy, Democrats now add an unfathomable level of gross cynicism.

Pedro L. Gonzalez is the associate editor at Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.

The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.

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Democrats Are Massive Hypocrites on So-Called 'Great Replacement Theory' | Opinion - Newsweek

Senator Joe Manchin acknowledged that moderate Democrats like himself are seemingly less popular among voters these days as he addressed a series of recent wins for progressives.

"The bases are looking for something that's more sensational, I guess, and more divisive," Manchin told CNN's Manu Raju about Rep. Conor Lamb's loss in Pennsylvania and Rep. Kurt Schrader's likely loss in Oregon.

Establishment Democrats were dealt a blow in Tuesday's primaries after progressive challengers appeared to edge out their more centrist rivals in a number of races.

In Pennsylvania, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, who backed Senator Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential run, easily won the Democratic primary against Lamb with nearly 60 percent of the vote. The Senate race in Pennsylvania has been one of the most-watched races this year, albeit there has been more focus on the GOP primary that features a Trump endorsement.

Fetterman ran on a campaign as a foil to moderates like Manchin and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema by pledging to "always be that 51st vote"a cheeky nod to the senators' past of stalling the Democratic agenda in the evenly-divided senate. He also supports eliminating the filibuster, which is one thing Manchin and Sinema have refused to do despite pleas from their party.

Asked about Fetterman's remarks that he's "no Joe Manchin," the West Virginia senator said, "I always said to get to know me is to like me."

Labor activist Summer Lee, the progressive favorite who rallied with Sanders last week, is also holding onto a narrow lead over moderate Steve Irwin in Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District. She is expected to join the House's so-called "Squad," alongside Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar, if she wins the general election.

In Oregon, Democrats are preparing for Schrader to lose in a close congressional race against progressive Jamie McLeod-Skinner. With just over half of the ballots counted, McLeod-Skinner is leading with 60 percent of the vote.

The race had been anticipated to be another standoff between a centrist Democrat and a progressive one, with Schrader earning both President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's endorsement and McLeod-Skinner receiving Senator Elizabeth Warren's backing.

Schrader, whose rival dubbed him the "Joe Manchin of the House," has notably voted against some of the party's prioritiesa record McLeod-Skinner capitalized on during her campaign.

"He's fought negotiating lower drug prices, raising the federal minimum wage, and forgiving debt for college loans," McLeod-Skinner told Pamplin Media Group. "When he does vote with Democrats, it is often after working to water-down the original ideas."

When asked about her lead over the president's candidate, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden was not worried about the weight of his endorsements, saying that "Both candidates were running on a platform that supported, embraced the president's agenda."

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RED BANK - The two Democrats competingfor the fractious party's nomination for mayor will make their cases to voters Tuesday in a debate that could indicate how the town will be governed for years to come.

The League of Women Voters of the Greater Red Bank Area and Southern Monmouth County will host a Red Bank mayoral candidates forum on Zoom at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 24 at 7 p.m. It will be hosted two weeks before the local Democratic and Republican primaries on June 7. In recent years, Democrats have routinely swept the council seats.

Second-term Red Bank councilman Michael Ballard and newcomer Billy Portman will answer questions submitted ahead of time by residents. Advance registration for attendees is required at https://bit.ly/forumredbankdem.

Ballard could not be reached for comment.

Portman, a Red Bank resident since 2015, is the owner of Advantage Construction, a commercial building contractor, and Elegant Mist, a company that sells cooling systems. He has three children who have all attended one of Red Banks arts academies and he sings in a cover band called So Watt.

Portman said he has been involved with canvassing for national politics since 2004.He said although he has not been involved in the local Democratic Municipal Committee, he has been following local issues since 2018.

Democrats had swept into power in Red Bank for the first time in however many years and then, immediately infighting started, he said referring to the six-person all-Democratic council that came into office in 2018.

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He referred to last years June primary, in which two incumbent Democratic council members ran against two candidates who were chosen by the local Democratic Municipal Committee, which is led by Councilman Edward Zipprich.

Primary voters chose one candidate from each faction, and incumbent Kate Triggiano and newcomer Jacqueline Sturdivant were elected to the Red Bank council in November.

Portman said the Democratic Municipal Committee primaried two of the existing council people because they didnt get along with them. And I was like, well … thats kind of gross.

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He then noted that the local Democratic Municipal Committee voted for Councilman Michael Ballard to run for mayor this year instead of Mayor Pat Menna, who has served in the job since 2006 and for 18 years before that as a council member.

It didnt seem right.(Ballard) was going to run unopposed, get the nomination without even a fight, Portman said.

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A statement by the Red Bank Democratic Municipal Committee said Ballard got the group's endorsement for mayor with 10 of the 17 votes that were cast. Menna chose not to run for job in the primary.

It read, In an historic nomination, The Red Bank Democratic Municipal Committee has chosen two-term Councilman Michael Ballard to run for mayor. Ballard is the first African American in the 114-year history of Red Bank to be nominated for the boroughs top job.

Portman said he supports the ongoing Charter Study Commissionand hopes it will recommend nonpartisan elections and a strong borough administrator.

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I think that would be a lot less divisive and I say that as a Democrat, Portman said. The issues are sewers and development and planning and those arent really Democratic or Republican issues. Those are just issues that affect a small town.

In support of a strong administrator, he said, We would still be passing laws as a council and shaping policy, but the day-to-day stuff should be run by a single administrator. Right now, it seems like the council is a bunch of little chiefdoms where you have different council people responsible for different areas and people are getting mixed messages.

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An emailed statement from the Democratic Municipal Committee says Ballard and its candidates for the Red Bank council are united in feeling the town needs stability more than ever, including retaining our form of government, a borough.

Portman said hesupportsan update to the master plan, which has been in the works since 2019.

One thing Im hearing from a lot of people as Im talking to them is just development, Portman said. How is development affecting the town? Is there over-development? Is there under-development? The one thing I really think needs to happen is there needs to be an update to the master plan. (Because) it seems like every time somebody wants to do something, its like a spot zoning issue. Were just approving this one project in this one area. And I dont think thats good for the town.

He said, Im definitely not a politician. This is not a stepping stone for me to higher office.

He added, Im in this because it looks like somethings needed fixing and I think I can do that.

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In addition to the position of mayor,Councilwoman Angela Mirandi and Red Bank resident John Jackson, both endorsed by the Democratic Municipal Committee, are running unopposed for the Democratic nomination for two borough council seats. The mayor serves for four years, the council members for three.

Republican candidates who had run unsuccessfully in previous elections are running unopposed on the Republican primary again. Brian Irwin is running for mayor and Christine Stout and Jonathan Penney are running for council. According to Penney, they are placeholder candidates. Last year, Stout and Penney dropped out of the race before the general election.

Democrats are also being asked to choose between two rival 18-member slates of candidates running to be in charge of borough's Democratic Party.

A group called the Democrats for Red Bank is challengingthe local Democratic Municipal Committee. The rival group includes current councilwomen Triggiano and Kathy Horgan as well as Charter Study members Nancy Facey-Blackwood and Ben Forest.

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Up until this year, the six-person Borough Council was split evenly between the two factions of Democrats.

In January, former Councilman Erik Yngstrom quit, citing toxicity on the council. He said certain individuals seem more focused on political gains and people trying to keep their perceived political power.

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Zipprich gave Menna three replacement candidates, as required by law, but then rejected Menna's choice, Stephen Hecht, in favor of Mirandi. With that addition, Zipprich, Ballard, Sturdivant and Mirandi now have the edge over their fellow Democrats Horgan and Triggiano on the council. Like Menna, Horgan chose not to run in the primary this year after the Democratic Municipal Committee chose not to endorse her for re-election.

OliviaLiuis a reporter covering transportation, Red Bank and western Monmouth County. She can be reached at oliu@gannett.com.

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