June 4, 2005 Burlco candidates expect loss; `Schundler Republicans' seek exposure, not office
`Schundler Republicans' seek exposure, not office
by Richard Pearsall
CHERRY HILL COURIER-POST
Two "Schundler Republicans" are running for Burlington County freeholder in the primary election Tuesday, challenging the candidates of the county Republican organization.
But they do not expect to win and are running more to support Bret Schundler's gubernatorial bid than to win office in their own right.
"Our first purpose is to get Schundler elected," said Carole Moore, wife of and campaign manager for candidate William E. Moore III.
Moore, 60, a retired teacher from Edgewater Park, and Dale Reising, 64, a Realtor from Columbus, are seeking the Republican nomination for freeholder under the "Bret 2005" label.
Their opponents are Freeholder Dawn Addiego, an Evesham attorney, and Aubrey Fenton, an ordained minister and former Assembly candidate from Willingboro who was selected by party leaders to run after Freeholder Theresa Brown announced in April she would not to seek another term.
Brown and Reising agreed to run for freeholder in the primary at the behest of the Schundler campaign, which needed a slate of candidates in order to compete for ballot position with Doug Forrester, Schundler's principal opponent in the gubernatorial primary race.
"Our campaign's decision to file slates is related to one thing and one thing only: our desire to protect ballot position," Schundler spokesman Bill Pascoe said in April.
A subsequent decision by the state Supreme Court that all seven gubernatorial candidates should have access to the first column on the ballot - unless they choose otherwise - has lessened the importance of having a slate.
Reising and Moore have confined their campaigning to appearances with Schundler, whose conservative positions on social issues and advocacy of tax relief they embrace.
They have not laid out positions on county issues.
"But I've got some ideas if I should get elected," Reising said, including a greater county role in education and law enforcement to reduce local costs.
