Senator Jennifer Beck
Senator Jennifer Beck welcomed “Camden County Vin” Gopal to the campaign for New Jersey Senate from the 11th Legislative District (parts of southern and western Monmouth County) today.
Beck said Gopal is “Camden County’s hand-picked candidate” and noted that he has failed in his two previous attempts to be elected to public office.
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Posted: January 3rd, 2017 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 11th Legislative District, Monmouth County News, Monmouth Democrats, Vin Gopal | Tags: 11th Legislative District, 2017 Legislative election, Jen Beck, Jennifer Beck, LD 11, Monmouth County News, Monmouth Democratic Chairman Vin Gopal, Sen Jennifer Beck, Senator Jennifer Beck, Vin Gopal | 4 Comments »
Boys Club: I bet you can’t find a photo of Vin posing with three women
The Monmouth County Democrats women problem goes beyond the fact that the party has only nominated 5 women to county or legislative offices, while nominating 26 men to higher office, since Vin Gopal became the Party Chairman in 2012. The Monmouth GOP nominated 17 men and 14 women during the same period.
Gopal defended his abysmal record of nominating women by calling his candidates for county and legislative offices “sacrificial lambs” in The Asbury Park Press’s coverage of Democratic Surrogate candidate Vincent Solomeno’s 2007 facebook post bragging about “a swedish whore named cindy.”
“Yes, we do not run women as sacrificial lambs in races just for the sake of running women,” Gopal is quoted as saying to The Asbury Park Press.
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Posted: October 11th, 2016 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Monmouth County, Monmouth County News, Monmouth Democrats, Monmouth GOP, Vin Gopal | Tags: Belmar Mayor Matt Doherty, Christine Hanlon, Goofy Gopal, Lawless Matt Doherty, Long Branch Mayor Adam Schneider, Monmouth County News, Monmouth Democratic Chairman Vin Gopal, Monmouth Democrats, Monmouth Dems, Monmouth GOP, Sea Bright Mayor Dina Long, Serena DiMaso, Surrogate Rosemarie Peters, Vin Gopal | 1 Comment »
Monmouth GOP blasts Dems’ for gender bias against women
Vincent Solomeno, the Democrat candidate for County Surrogate, posted a message on facebook explaining that he was without a phone and that if anyone needed to reach him, “there’s this swedish whore named cindy who usually knows where to find me.”
The post was made in 2007 while Solomeno was a graduate student at the University of Amsterdam. It remained on his facebook page until at least three weeks ago when it was removed after MMM asked him about it.
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“Obviously I don’t engage in prostitution,” Solomeno said in a phone interview. “I don’t remember making the post. I don’t think something I did nine years ago while I was in college disqualifies me from being the Surrogate.”
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Posted: October 11th, 2016 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Monmouth County, Monmouth County News, Monmouth Democrats, Monmouth GOP, Vin Gopal | Tags: gender bias, Goofy Gopal, Middletown High School North, misogyny, Monmouth County News, Monmouth Democratic Chairman Vin Gopal, swedish whore, swedish whore named cindy, Vin Gopal, Vincent Solomeno | 7 Comments »
photo via Middletown High School North’s website
The Monmouth County Democrat candidates for Freeholder and Surrogate were recruiting 14 and 15 year old high school students to be interns for Chairman Vin Gopal’s organization when they made a campaign appearance at Middletown High School North earlier this month.
According to an email from Gopal to members of the Middletown Board of Education and Superintendent William George Ed. D, the Democrats’ Campaign Coordinator, Meaghan Mahoney reached out to Assistant Principal Tyniesha Douglas on August 10 asking if she could advertise open intern positions to the student body and requesting to address a Government, Law and Public Policy Pathway (GLP3) seminar. Douglas responded the next day offering to arrange for Mahoney to meet the class and asking her to bring possible candidates.
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Posted: September 30th, 2016 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Education, Middletown, Monmouth County News | Tags: Brenda Sue Fulton, Dr. William George, Freeholder Director Tom Arnone, Joseph Ventre, Lawless Matt Doherty, Matt Doherty, Meagan Mahoney, Middletown Board of Education, Middletown High School North, Monmouth County News, Monmouth Democratic Chairman Vin Gopal, Monmouth Democrats, Patti May, Sue Fulton, Tyniesha Douglas, Vin Gopal, Vincent Solomeno | 1 Comment »
Monmouth Democratic Chairman “Goofy” Gopal and Belmar Mayor “Lawless Matt” Doherty also blamed a protest at a campaign fundraiser on the Monmouth GOP and this website
In an email to the members of the Middletown Board of Education and Superintendent of Schools Dr. William George, Monmouth County Democrat Chairman Vin Gopal blamed the controversy about his candidates for Surrogate and Freeholder campaigning in a Middletown High School North honors Government, Law and Public Policy Program (GLP3) seminar on the Monmouth County Republicans and this website.
“I feel sorry for the school district that the County Republicans and a local blogger are trying to create a witch hunt and create an issue that does not exist,” Gopal wrote in his email last evening.
There he goes again. Whenever things go wrong for Gopal he blames the Republicans, this website and the boogeyman.
That’s one of the reasons why we call him Goofy.
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Posted: September 27th, 2016 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Education, Matt Doherty, Middletown, Monmouth County News, Monmouth Democrats, Monmouth GOP, Vin Gopal | Tags: Belmar, Belmar protest, Goofy Gopal, Lawless Matt Doherty, Matt Doherty, Middletown Board of Eduation, Middletown High School North, Monmouth County News, Monmouth Democratic Chairman Vin Gopal, Vincent Solomeno | 1 Comment »
For the second time in less than a month, the Monmouth County Democrats have threatened to sue MoreMonmouthMusings.
Earlier this month Maggie Moran, former Governor Corzine’s campaign manager and Deputy Chief of Staff and the wife of Belmar Mayor “Lawless Matt” Doherty threatened to take legal action against us if we did not correct or retract a story wherein we claimed she worked for Ashbritt, the company that made millions cleaning up the Jersey Shore after Hurricane Sandy and the company Belmar hired after Dirty Doherty fired a local clean up contractor. We responded by publishing her lawyer’s letter and proof that Maggie worked on behalf of Ashbritt, in the form of marketing materials with Maggie’s name and phone number on it.
Yesterday, Monmouth County Democrat Chairman Vin Gopal, threatened to sue, not about something we wrote, but about something we might write.
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Posted: September 26th, 2016 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Education, Matt Doherty, Middletown, Monmouth County News, Monmouth Democrats, Vin Gopal | Tags: Brenda Sue Fulton, Dr. Patricia Vari-Cartier, Dr. William George, Freeholder Director Tom Arnone, Goofy Gopal, Lawless Matt Doherty, Maggie Moran, Middletown Board of Education, Middletown High School North, Monmouth County News, Monmouth Democratic Chairman Vin Gopal, Monmouth Democrats, Patti May, Sue Fulton, Vincent Solomeno | 10 Comments »
Second Middletown Teacher caught engaging in Democrat partisan activity during school hours this year
A photo of Monmouth County Democrat candidates for Surrogate and Freeholder speaking to a seminar of Middletown High School North freshmen and sophomore participants in the school’s honors Government, Law and Public Policy Program (GLP3) Pathway was posted on the campaign facebook page of Surrogate candidate Vincent Solomeno last Tuesday with the caption “Thrilled to join Matt Doherty and Sue Fulton for Monmouth County Freeholder 2016 and speak to students about county government at Middletown High School North. Get involved!”
None of the three candidates have any experience in county government.
The seminar was supervised by Patti May, a teacher who is a Democrat candidate for Borough Council in Eatontown. Monmouth County Democrat Chairman Vin Gopal held a fundraiser for the teacher at the Jumping Brook Country Club in June.
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Posted: September 24th, 2016 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2016 Elections, Education, Monmouth County News, Monmouth Democrats, Monmouth GOP | Tags: Brenda Sue Fulton, Dr. Patricia Vari-Cartier, Dr. William George, Eatontown, Joseph Ventre, Lawless Matt Doherty, Matt Doherty, Mayor Gerry Scharfenberger, Middletown, Middletown Board of Education, Middletown High School North, Monmouth County News, Monmouth Democratic Chairman Vin Gopal, New Jersey, Patti May, Sue Fulton, Vin Gopal, Vincent Solomeno | 17 Comments »
Gopal likens Belmar protest to a home invasion
17 year old says he wasn’t paid to protest
Vin Gopal speaks at Doherty fundraiser while Sen Cory Booker and Matt Doherty look on. photo via facebook
Belmar Mayor “Lawless Matt” Doherty and Monmouth County Democrat Chairman Vin Gopal are continuing to use a naive 17 year old boy as a political pawn in an attempt to create sympathy for Doherty because his “safe space” was violated by Belmar residents who protested outside the mayor’s home during a fundraiser featuring Senator Cory Booker on August 10.
The residents were protesting Belmar not authorizing a local restaurant to transfer their liquor license to a new location, despite the fact that the borough had approved the building of the location and the mayor had signed a redevelopment agreement authorizing the location. They were also protesting the mayor allowing a $2500 campaign contributor to land a helicopter in a borough park without obtaining the consent of the Council or providing public notice. Doherty said the restaurant owners, the Harmon brothers, made a bad business decision by building out the new location without first obtaining approval of the license transfer.
MMM was the first to report on the protest the morning after it occurred.
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Posted: August 29th, 2016 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Matt Doherty, Monmouth County News, Vin Gopal | Tags: Belmar protest, Dirty Doherty, Lawless Matt Doherty, Matt Doherty, Monmouth County News, Monmouth Democratic Chairman Vin Gopal, Tim Harmon | 2 Comments »
photo via facebook
Monmouth County Democrat Chairman Vin Gopal drew more attention to the grassroots uprising of Belmar residents against the policies of their mayor, “Lawless Matt” Doherty, yesterday with a post on the Monmouth Democrats facebook page denying the Observer (formerly PolitickerNJ) article that reported that he and Doherty accused the Monmouth GOP and this website of paying protesters to demonstrate outside Doherty’s house during a campaign fundraiser last week featuring Senator Cory Booker.
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Posted: August 17th, 2016 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Belmar, Matt Doherty, Monmouth County News, Monmouth Democrats, Vin Gopal | Tags: Belmar, Belmar Mayor Matt Doherty, Belmar protest, Deputy Freeholder Director Serena DiMaso, Dirty Doherty, Freeholder Director Tom Arnone, Lawless Matt Doherty, Monmouth County News, Monmouth Democratic Chairman Vin Gopal, Serena DiMaso, Tom Arnone, Vin Gopal | 2 Comments »
Monmouth GOP: We’re not run by Debbie Wasserman-Schultz or Hillary Clinton
Monmouth County Democrat Chairman Vin Gopal has a canny knack for getting otherwise good journalists to print stories based on his libelous allegations that have no basis in fact.
In 2013 Gopal issued a Friday evening press release accusing a Republican Red Bank Council candidate of having a warrant out for his arrest in Texas. MoreMonmouthMusings contacted Texas authorities to confirm the story and found that it was false. But several respected publications ran with Gopal’s lie before retracting their story after MMM published the truth.
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Posted: August 16th, 2016 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Belmar, Matt Doherty, Monmouth County, Monmouth County Life, Monmouth Democrats, Monmouth GOP, Vin Gopal | Tags: Belmar Mayor Matt Doherty, Boathouse Bar and Grill, Dirty Doherty, Lawless Matt Doherty, Monmouth County News, Monmouth Democratic Chairman Vin Gopal, Monmouth Democrats, Monmouth GOP, Salt Waterfront Belma, Senator Cory Booker, Tim Harmon, Vin Gopal | 8 Comments »