Crowded Field Vying for Camco Freeholder Spots

Gloucester Township will be well-represented in the Camden County freeholder primary this year.

Four Democrats and four Republicans will run for two nominations to open seats on the Camden County Board of Chosen Freeholders.

Four of the eight candidates in the two primary elections call Gloucester Township home.

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 a 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., running under the Make a Difference Democrat moniker. 

LaConte-Smith and Stearns live in 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 Township, has a slogan of Promising Service to All Camden County and Powers, of Gloucester Township, is running with an Official Republican slogan.

The June 7 primary will decide the two nominees for both major parties, but November general elections also often feature independent and third-party candidates.