New Jersey Mayor Refuses to Honor Charlie Kirk with Half-Staff Flag

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🗓️ 15 September 2025

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: 4:00pm- Joseph Labarbera—Sussex County Republican Committee Chairman—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss Sparta, New Jersey Mayor Neill Clark refusing to lower his town’s flag to half-mast to show respect for Charlie Kirk. Clark also crashed a vigil for Kirk on Saturday—shamelessly arguing with attendees. 4:20pm- During a concert in London, Coldplay’s lead singer Chris Martin took a moment to remember Charlie Kirk. Similarly, NFL teams like the Jets, Cowboys, Dolphins, Saints, Chiefs, Steelers, Titans, and Cardinals held moments of silence prior to the start of their games. 4:40pm- On Monday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told members of the press that U.S. and Chinese negotiators have agreed upon the framework for a deal involving the social media application TikTok.

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0:00.0	The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr. with Osperity Private Wealth.
0:05.4	Hi, I'm Mike Vaneria Jr., wealth management specialists. Make your retirement dreams a reality by creating your retirement plan today. Call me at 856-252-0107.
0:15.8	It's great to welcome to the show. A man who served our country. He's been a friend of mine for several years now, and also,
0:23.1	he is the chairman of the Republican Party up in Sussex County, New Jersey. Joe LaBarbera,
0:29.0	and he joins me now on Talk Radio 1210, WPHD. Hey, Joe, how are you, my friend?
0:33.6	Hey, Rich. Thank you for having me on, sir. Thank you very much.
0:36.4	Well, thank you. Thank you for your service to our country as a Marine, and I appreciate you being here today.
0:42.3	So besides Sparta, how are things looking in Sussex County, which is a historically red county,
0:50.0	and as we head into the election for Jack Chitterelli, how are you feeling?
0:55.0	Oh, really good. I hope we can get a the election for Jack Shidorelli, how are you feeling? Oh, really good.
1:02.3	I'm hoping we can get 80. We got 65% for Jack back in 2021. We're shooting for 80% this time.
1:07.7	80%. Excellent. And somebody sent me a picture he was up there, I believe, last week, right?
1:27.9	Yeah, yeah. He comes up. He does this a lot of honor when he comes up because, as you know, we don't have the most votes in the state, but we are one of the most conservative voters in the state, and he's very well loved in Sussex. He won the primary considerably in Sussex. Yeah, no, he crushed it. And if you get all those Republicans out to vote, that's that that that'll be huge. I have no doubt to do that.
1:32.5	What do you think the key is going to be to get out the vote efforts this time around?
1:39.3	I think this, I think, uh, the tragedy of Charlie Kirk's assassination has woken up a lot of dormant voters. Really? Interesting. Yes. Yeah, we can see that in Sparta very clearly.
1:46.3	Okay, so Sparta, New Jersey, so people know it's a town in Sussex County.
1:53.5	When I grew up, it was a pretty red town, but a lot of people moved there from out of Sussex County.
1:59.9	They moved there from Bergen County from New York.
2:02.4	I know the Democrats kind of took it over.
2:04.5	You've been working along with some other very good people to try to win it back.
2:09.0	Who is this guy, this mayor?
2:11.7	Who is this guy?
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