93-Year-Old WWII Veteran Ousts Incumbent N.J. Mayor

Kathryn Blackhurst reports in Lifezette,

Vito Perillo, a 93-year-old World War II veteran, pulled off an Election Day upset Tuesday when he ousted Tinton Falls Mayor Gerald M. Turning in New Jersey.

Perillo, a U.S. Navy veteran who served in the Pacific theater, told the Asbury Park Press that he wore out two pairs of shoes while traipsing about the town and knocking on every single door to court voters. At the end of the day, Perillo snatched 53 percent of the vote with 2,449 votes to Turning’s 46 percent and 2,146 votes.

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