Offensive text messages expose fractures in Hudson GOP unity
Updated Feb 15, 2021;
Posted Feb 14, 2021
GOP state committeeman Joshua Sotomayor-Einstein, left, and Jose Arango, Hudson County GOP chair and state chair of chairs, right.
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Demeaning text messages sent by a Republican state committeeman have exposed cracks in the Hudson County minority party’s unity.
The revelation of the messages, in which GOP state Committeeman Joshua Sotomayor-Einstein admitted to emotionally abusing a woman, have thrust the usually low-key Hudson County Republicans into the spotlight, highlighting a simmering discord over the party’s future.
“We have two sides of our parties digging in their heels, and they both have different ideas on how to run things, and they seem to be trying to take each other out,” said Jennifer Zinone, a Bayonne Republican who won 40,298 votes last year in an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. House of Representatives.