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TOMS RIVER, NJ – Two warring factions of the Toms River Republican Party joined forces on Tuesday with the Orthodox Jewish community to re-elect longtime NJEA boss Kathy Eagan to the Toms River Board of Education.

Eagan won with less than 50% of the vote in a three-way race against Republican George Lobman. Eagan has supported many of the initiatives championed by the Orthodox community leaders in recent years, including school busing policies, and was one of the board members behind the school district’s agreement to partner with the Lakewood School Transportation Authority (LTSA).

A Democrat, Eagan teamed up with a law firm with close ties to Ocean County GOP Chairman George Gilmore to sue Lobman to remove him from the ballot. That lawsuit was dropped after Lobman’s attorneys rais

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