{"id":1889,"date":"2014-11-04T22:49:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T03:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2014-11-05T00:03:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T05:03:20","slug":"vicari-cruises-to-victory-in-freeholder-race-says-ryan-should-apologize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/11\/vicari-cruises-to-victory-in-freeholder-race-says-ryan-should-apologize\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicari Cruises to Victory in Freeholder Race, Says Ryan Should Apologize"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1890\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/vicari.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1890\" class=\"wp-image-1890 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/vicari-200x160.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Vicari\" width=\"200\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Vicari<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ocean County Freeholder Joe Vicari has declared victory in what was a tough-fought race by his opponent, Democrat Tim Ryan, whose unconfirmed allegations of an FBI investigation into county government ultimately backfired as a campaign strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Vicari, who has served on the board since 1981, won by about 18,000 votes,. The decisive, 54-40 percent victory by Vicari was no surprise \u2013 a Democrat has not won a seat on the board since 1989 \u2013 but signified the strength of the county Republican organization\u2019s political apparatus given the hard push by Ryan on ethics issues in county government.<\/p>\n<p>Vicari won 72,527 votes over Ryan\u2019s 54,113. Third party candidates, Tracy Caprioni and Brian Pizza won 2,386 votes and 3,999 votes, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe Tim Ryan owes the people of Ocean County an apology,\u201d Vicari told Republicans gathered at the TR Hotel in Toms River, <a href=\"http:\/\/politickernj.com\/2014\/11\/smith-vicari-declare-victory-at-oc-rally-welcome-likely-macarthur-victory\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to PolitickerNJ<\/a>. \u201cThis is not North Korea. We\u2019re not communists.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/11\/vicari-cruises-to-victory-in-freeholder-race-says-ryan-should-apologize\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocean County Freeholder Joe Vicari has declared victory in what was a tough-fought race by his opponent, Democrat Tim Ryan, whose unconfirmed allegations of an FBI investigation into county government ultimately backfired as a campaign strategy. Vicari, who has served on the board since 1981, won by about 18,000 votes,. The decisive, 54-40 percent victory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[24,413,414],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brick-elections","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-joe-vicari","tag-tim-ryan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/vicari.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-ut","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}