Where Michael Schwartz, a young political organizer from Toms River, was the key to victory for the "Restore The Pride" team of Hoff, Strydio & Murray, in a town where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a margin of more than three to one.

Schwartz, a "have gun, will travel" no-nonsense campaign consultant, was a key element in The Pride team's convincing victory in the May 11th Keansburg (Monmouth County) "non-partisan" election.

The opposition, three entrenched Democrats, spent the last four years looting the little resort town with political payoffs and huge tax increases and making a bad crime and drug problem even worse.