Politics & Government
Democratic Candidates Celebrate Red Bank Council Race Results
Democratic candidates Angela Mirandi and John Jackson defeated GOP challengers Mark Taylor and Jonathan Penney, in unofficial results.
RED BANK, NJ – Democratic candidates Councilwoman Angela Mirandi and running mate John Jackson thanked Red Bank voters for their wins to terms on the Borough Council.
They were challenged by Republicans Mark Taylor, a former Red Bank Councilman, and Jonathan Maciel Penney, the Republican committee chairperson.
As of Wednesday afternoon, unofficial vote totals in the race were:
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- Angela Mirandi - 1,707
- John L. Jackson - 1,688
- Mark D. Taylor - 1,551
- Jonathan Penney - 1,459
“I’d like to thank everyone who voted for me and I look forward to serving all of Red Bank. I want to thank everyone who helped with the campaign and John Jackson for being my running mate," Mirandi said in a news release.
She is an incumbent who was serving the unexpired term of former Councilman Erik Yngstrom. This is her first election to a full term.
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"I am grateful to have the opportunity to continue serving my community and making positive changes as we all work together to move Red Bank forward.”
Jackson, elected to a first term on the council, also responded to the vote:
“I’m excited that I'll get to do what I’ve longed to do in Red Bank - serve our community in a leadership capacity. I also appreciate that voters based their choice on what they saw and heard of us, through our own words and actions," he said.
"Angela and I will lead in the same manner in which we campaigned—with thoughtfulness and integrity.”
Apart from the vote on the council seats, Billy Portman ran unopposed for mayor after winning a Democratic primary in June against Councilman Michael Ballard.
And in one of the most decisive votes, residents voted by 68 percent to change the borough's form of government to nonpartisan, Council-Manager.
So the mayor and council will serve for a few months before a new nonpartisan election takes place in May, as required by state law under the new government form.
Both Portman and the Republicans Taylor and Penney supported a change to nonpartisan government.
Mirandi and Jackson did not endorse a change but did not openly oppose it either.
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