Democrats will compete in Bernardsville after successful write-in campaign
Incumbent Republican Bernardsville Mayor Mary Jane Canose and Republican council candidates Kathleen Tober and Thomas Slocum appeared headed for an easy victory this November after no Democrats initially filed to run for mayor or for the two borough council seats up for election, including one they already held.
That changed when former Councilman Jeffrey Hammond won a write-in campaign for the Democratic mayoral nomination; Democratic incumbent Jeffrey Roos and Christopher Schenck mounted successful write-in campaigns for the two borough council seats.
Each candidate received more than 75 write-in votes — more than three times the 25 votes required to secure a Democratic nomination.
Hammond, the former medical director of the Level I Trauma Center at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, was elected councilman in 2018 but lost his re-election bid three years later.
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