A Crowded Field Vie for Freeholder Nominations

Four Democrats and four Republicans will run for two nominations to open seats on the Camden County Board of Chosen Freeholders, the county’s highest body of elected officials. The June 7 primary will decide the standard bearers for both major parties, but November general elections often have candidates from multiple parties.

Incumbents Louis Cappelli, the current freeholder director, and Scot McCray, who was appointed this year to the unexpired term of Riletta Cream, will have the decided advantage of running with the powerful county Democratic Committee backing.  

There hasn’t been Republican freeholder since Joseph Condo and Robert Kennedy were defeated in 1993. 

Cappelli and McCray will face Amy LaConte-Smith, running under the True Democrat Reform slogan and Thomas J. Stearns Jr. of the Make a Difference Democrat slogan. Both are from Gloucester Township. Cappelli is from Collingswood and McCray from Camden.

Joshua Rocks, Eugene E.T. Lawrence, Helen Hart-Magobet and Fernando Powers will run for two Republican nominations.

Rocks, from Haddon Township, and Lawrence, of Gloucester Township, are affiliated with the Camden County Regular Republican Party.

Hart-Margobet, of the Sicklerville section of Winslow, has a slogan of Promising Service to All Camden County and Powers, of Gloucester Township, is running with an Official Republican slogan.