Hudson GOP chair calls on committeeman to resign over misogynistic texts in 2018: report Updated Jan 15, 2021; The chairman of the Hudson County Republican Party is urging a county committeeman to step down after misogynistic text messages from 2018 were made public, a website reported. “There’s no room for this type of behavior in any party,” Hudson County GOP Chairman Jose Arango, who is also the chairman of the state party, told NJGlobe.com, referring to committeeman Joshua Sotomayor Einstein. “Forget about the Republican Party. Republican, Democrat, whatever — women should be respected no matter what. We can’t tolerate this.” According to the website, a former Morris County Young Republicans official posted the 2018 text-message exchange on Facebook.