Freeholder Anna Little is sworn in

11/25/2006

Freeholder Anna C. Little was sworn in to her seat on the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders at last night’s meeting, following her election to a 1-year unexpired term.

The swearing-in ceremony, with the oath of office administered by Superior Court Judge Louis F. Locascio, was held in the restored historic courtroom in the Hall of Records. Her husband, Robert, was at her side along with their children, Katie, Robert and Christine, and her mother, Ann Campbell.

Born in Red Bank, Freeholder Little was raised in Middletown, graduating in 1985 from Middletown High School South. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Seton Hall University, West Orange, and earned her law degree from Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, in 1992.

“I am honored that voters in Monmouth County have elected me to continue representing them on the Board of Chosen Freeholders,” Little said. “Monmouth County is a very special place, with wonderful parks, educational opportunities and a thriving business community. It is a privilege to be able to give back to the place we call home. As Freeholder, I will see to it that our quality of life is not only preserved, but improved.”

Freeholder Little was selected in February to fill the seat vacated by Amy Handlin, who resigned in January after being sworn in to a seat in the state Assembly. Freeholder Little has oversight of the following functions of county government: Finance Department, Purchasing Department, the county adjuster, and is liaison to the Monmouth County Improvement Authority and Tax Board.

In the coming year, Freeholder Little said she looks forward to continuing her work examining the county budget looking for ways to save money and boost revenues, and will be focusing on shared services. She also said she is excited about continuing her work to foster economic development in the private sector.

“We must do everything we can to retain our workforce so that Monmouth County continues to be the place where businesses want to locate,” Freeholder Little said. “By preserving the workforce and bringing in new businesses, we will create new opportunities for everyone.”

Freeholder Little also is a firm believer that government works best from the bottom up, and she has pledged to build close ties with municipal leaders throughout Monmouth County to help tackle local issues. “As your freeholder, I will continue to reach out to municipal officials and bring their issues back to the office to work on ways in which Monmouth County can help our communities grow.”

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Adam Puharic, Chairman
Monmouth County Republican Party
www.MonmouthRepublican.org
info@MonmouthRepublican.org
732.431.6664

Happy Thanksgiving!

11/23/2006

Dear fellow Republicans:

On this wonderful day of Thanksgiving, it is my prayerful wish, on behalf of the entire Monmouth County Republican organization, that you and your family be blessed with prosperity, health and good spirits during the approaching holiday season, and in the coming year. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the holiday of Thanksgiving so that Americans may set aside some time each year, to be surrounded by friends and family, and to give thanks for the bountiful harvest we enjoyed with the grace of the Almighty.

Clearly, in Monmouth County there is much to be thankful for. We live in one of the best places in all of New Jersey. It was made this way due to the hard work of Monmouth County Republicans who governed so well for so many years. We are thankful for the election of our next Surrogate, Rosemarie Peters, and the return of Anna Little to the Board of Chosen Freeholders. We are grateful for the service of Freeholders Robert Clifton, Lillian Burry and Director Bill Barham. Sheriff Joe Oxley, County Clerk M. Claire French, and outgoing Surrogate Marie Muhler are wonderful public servants. We are thankful for the Monmouth County Republican Legislative delegation of Joe Kyrillos, Joe Palaia, Steve Corodemus, Sean Kean, Sam Thompson, Amy Handlin, and Jennifer Beck. The return of Congressman Chris Smith to Washington in an extremely difficult year is a special gift.

And this year, as he heads into a well-deserved retirement from public service, I would like to give special thanks for the service and dedication of Theodore J. Narozanick. There is no one like Ted, and his lifelong commitment to serving his community is a role model that we hope will continue to inspire future generations of Monmouth County residents.

And as your chairman, I am thankful for the work you have done for the good of all Republicans, and for the work you will accomplish in the coming year. As the calendar turns to the new year, we will face unprecedented challenges by democrats hoping to overthrow Monmouth County government with grotesque sums of wheeled campaign funds. Victory will require everything we can muster. Without sticking together, we will accomplish nothing.

Once again, a happy and healthy Thanksgiving. All of God’s blessings!

Adam Puharic

P.S. Below is the complete proclamation by our party’s founder:

1863

The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added which are of so extraordinary a nature that they can not fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful Providence of Almighty God.

In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the theater of military conflict, while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.

Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well as the iron and coal as of our precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the battlefield, and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the imposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the divine purpose, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity, and union.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this 3d day of October, A. D. 1863, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth.

Abraham Lincoln

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Adam Puharic, Chairman
Monmouth County Republican Party
www.MonmouthRepublican.org
info@MonmouthRepublican.org
732.431.6664

Thank You for making their victory possible!

A "Wireside Chat" from Chairman Adam Puharic
11/10/2006

To all of the volunteers who worked on the 2006 campaign, a heartfelt thank you from your family at the Monmouth County Republican Committee. We are grateful that through your efforts, we were able to elect Freeholder Anna Little and Surrogate-to-be Rosemarie Peters. We faced an unprecedented challenge in fighting against a national tide of democrat election victories on offices of every level.

How large was this tsunami of Democratic voters? Well, Democrats unseated an incumbent GOP Freeholder in Atlantic County. In the Republican stronghold of Burlington County, the GOP suffered the first defeat in decades with the loss of the surrogate, and the incumbent Freeholders barely held on. The same results happened in Salem and Bergen, once reliably Republican. Campaign spending did not help, as virtual unknowns were able to make serious challenges to well-liked Republicans.

In our own Monmouth County, only 19 of 50 races went to the GOP. Middletown will have a Democrat on the committee for the first time in decades. This was a statistically worse year than the aftermath of Watergate. The defeat of our beloved Andrew Lucas is a wound that will take time to heal. We take comfort in knowing that this outstanding 29-year-young winner has a great future ahead of him, and we look forward to his competing and winning in other contests. The party has many new leaders, and this chairman has found a friend for life.

The election of 2007 starts today. We must reelect two Freeholders. We have a Sheriff and County Clerk to reelect. Our legislators must be returned to Trenton, along with new Republican members in the 12th district. This can only happen if we get to work right away.
This next step is yours. Here is a challenge: Look at the election results in your town. Find the districts that underperformed for Republicans. Make a plan to visit these districts. Talk to voters. Register Republicans. Bring the Freeholders to a town meeting, or a block party.

The rest is up to you. Thanks for the hard work in 2006. There is much more to do.

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Adam Puharic, Chairman
Monmouth County Republican Party
www.MonmouthRepublican.org
info@MonmouthRepublican.org
732.431.6664

VOTE FOR LEIGH-ANN BELLEW: A MOM ON A MISSION

PO Box 125

Keyport, NJ 07735

732-692-6443

info@bellewforcongress.com

http://www.bellewforcongress.com/

Dear Fellow Republicans:

In the 6th Congressional District, it is time to retire Frank Palone (sic.). Leigh-Ann Bellew is the right candidate for this job. Please see her bio information below. Join me in voting for a Mom on a mission – Leigh-Ann Bellew!

Born in May of 1969, I was raised to believe that each person has a responsibility to serve. I am running for Congress because the future of our families is too important to be left to politicians more interested in their political futures than in serving our needs. I am not a politician but instead a Mom on a Mission. My mission is to end playing partisan politics with the issues and return public service to the House of Representatives.

Experience has taught me the importance of serving others by enacting solutions that address challenges to produce results. This is evident in my career choices of serving at-risk children through Big Brothers/ Big Sisters of Monmouth County or as a Client Services Representative with American Express.

Shortly after marriage, my dedication to service was again tested with the birth of our two children. Embarking on a new career as an at-home wife and mother of two young boys, taught me the important skills necessary to serve in the House of Representatives such as, balancing a budget, acting as an unbiased mediator in resolving conflicts, resisting lobbying efforts, and negotiating peace agreements among quarreling factions.

As Congresswoman, I will work toward:

• Securing Our Nation from Future Terrorist Attacks
• Securing Our Borders with REAL Immigration Reform
• Securing and Creating Jobs for New Jersey
• Lowering Taxes for all New Jersey Families
• Controlling Spending to Eliminate the National Deficit
• Securing and Protecting Property Rights from Eminent Domain Abuses
• Supporting Our Troops on the Battlefield and Beyond
  

Personal Information

• Born May 4, 1969 in Fort Worth Texas
• Married July 27, 1996 in Holmdel, NJ
• Mother of two boys ages 9 and 6
  

Career and Service History

• Legislative Assistant for the League of American Families, Ringwood, NJ
• Volunteer at Calvary Baptist Church, Aberdeen, NJ
• North Carolina Board of Realtors, Assistant Director of Communications
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Monmouth County, Public Relations / Special Events Coordinator
• American Express, Client Communications Specialist
  

Education

• Mainland Senior High School, Daytona Beach, FL
• Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ
• University of North Texas, Denton, TX

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Adam Puharic, Chairman
Monmouth County Republican Party
www.MonmouthRepublican.org
info@MonmouthRepublican.org
732.431.6664

Vote Republican Today

A "Wireside Chat" from Chairman Adam Puharic
11/07/2006

Friends:

In 1840, Abraham Lincoln wrote out a simple plan to organize each district so that every Whig may be brought to the polls. For Lincoln, it was a matter of contacting neighbors and friends, one-by-one. Lincoln said that we should “see each man (woman) of his section face to face, and to secure his pledge that he will for no consideration stay from the polls on (election day) and that he will record his vote as early as possible.”

Today is the day. For Monmouth County. For your family and friends. For Abraham Lincoln:

Vote for:

Tom Kean Jr for US Senate
Chris Smith, Joe Sinagra or Leigh Ann Bellew for Congress
Rosemarie D. Peters for Surrogate
Andrew Lucas for Freeholder
Anna Little for Freeholder

And all of our local Republican candidates. Join us for a victory celebration at Branches, Rt. 71 in West Long Branch, at 8pm tonight.

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Adam Puharic, Chairman
Monmouth County Republican Party
www.MonmouthRepublican.org
info@MonmouthRepublican.org
732.431.6664

Soldier Absentee Ballot Update

11/06/2006

Dear Fellow Republicans:

I, Heather Bachman, would like to proudly announce that the solider who contacted our committee looking for help in receiving an absentee ballot was sent a ballot earlier today and will be able to vote. He's giving all he has; the least we can do is make sure his voice is heard through the electoral process.

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Heather Bachman
Administrative Manager
Monmouth County Republican Party
www.MonmouthRepublican.org
info@MonmouthRepublican.org
732.431.6664

Monmouth County Loves Congressman Chris Smith

11/06/2006

Dear fellow Republicans!

This year, in addition to electing Tom Kean to the US Senate, Leigh-Ann Bellew and Joe Sinagra to Congress, and Rosemarie Peters for Surrogate, Andrew Lucas and Anna Little for Freeholder, we have the opportunity to re-elect one of the best public servants in all of New Jersey, Congressman Chris Smith.

Congressman Chris Smith is running for his 14th term in office (26 years). He is the Chairman of the Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations Subcommittee, and the Vice-Chairman of the House International Relations Committee.
He is also the Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the:

• Alzheimer’s Caucus
• Autism Caucus
• Spina Bifida Caucus
  

And the Former Chairman of Veterans Affairs Committee (2001-2004). In this role, Congressman Smith wrote 13 comprehensive laws to benefit veterans including:

• 60% boost to GI bill making college more affordable, “Bob Wallace head of VFW Washington Office called it the greatest piece of legislation in the 21st century”
• Homeless Veterans Comprehensive Assistance Act

Veterans Survivor Benefits Improvements Act

And besides all of these accomplishments, Chris Smith continues to be a good friend to Monmouth County, to the Monmouth County Republicans, and to this Chairman. I am grateful for his honorable service to this great nation. We must work together to reward that service with our votes. Join me in making Monmouth County’s share of his congressional district the winning share of votes! Re-elect Congressman Chris Smith today.

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Adam Puharic, Chairman
Monmouth County Republican Party
http://www.MonmouthRepublican.org
info@MonmouthRepublican.org
732.431.6664

We Love Our Soldiers!

A "Wireside Chat" from Chairman Adam Puharic
11/05/2006

By now, I’m sure you’ve heard of the remark by the democrats’ Presidential candidate, and what he thinks of our brave men and women in uniform.
John Kerry, the democrat, delivered the following line in a recent speech:

"You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

Shame on you. Shame on all of those who would defend this vile and vicious statement. Our men and women in uniform are the brightest, bravest and best that this country has to offer. I am proud of every person who wears the uniform. My children pray for their safety every night.

And what does our local congressman, democrat Rush Holt, think about this remark. Well, he’s busy raising questions about a new military voting program that lets service members request and submit their ballots by fax or e-mail. Yes, that is correct. He is trying to make it more difficult for our brave men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan to vote. I am outraged. You should be too. Please click this link for more info:

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Nov02/0,4670,VotingMilitary,00.html

At the Monmouth County Republican Party, we have a different attitude towards America’s military. Our own Administrative Manager, Heather Bachman, has been working all weekend long – including a message I received at 10pm on Saturday night -- to make sure the vote is counted for one of our soldiers in Iraq. He wants to vote – his right as an American – but there are too many hurdles in his way. He is willing to lose his life for this country, but some members of congress are not working hard to count his vote.

Congratulations Heather Bachman. You are doing the right thing. John Kerry and Rush Holt, I hope your voters are proud of you.

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Adam Puharic, Chairman
Monmouth County Republican Party
www.MonmouthRepublican.org
info@MonmouthRepublican.org
732.431.6664

Republican Talking Points for Today

11/04/2006

Fellow Republicans:

As you travel Monmouth County’s beautiful roadways this weekend, be mindful of the hard work of the Monmouth Republican sign crew. They have put in a tremendous effort to market our candidates’ names to the driving public. We need your help this weekend to keep our best foot, err sign leg forward.

When you see a large 4X4 sign that is crooked, or bent by the wind, try to safely stop near it. Straighten it out, and reset the dirt so the sign will hold for this final 72 hours.

I know you are busy, but every sign that presents before voters is one more chance to remind voters which candidates are the right candidates to fight the rise in property taxes, share services, and lead the way in ethics reform. The only choice for Monmouth County – Rosemarie Peters, Andrew Lucas and Anna Little.

Thanks for your continued support of our Monmouth County Republican candidates.

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Adam Puharic, Chairman
Monmouth County Republican Party
www.MonmouthRepublican.org
info@MonmouthRepublican.org
732.431.6664

Republican Candidates Need Your Help

11/04/2006

Friends,

This day to go until Election Day our Republican candidates up and down the ballot need your help. To ensure that we win big on Tuesday, we have been conducting one of the largest Republican Get-Out-the-Vote operations in Monmouth County History.
For the remaining days we will be paying volunteers $100 for four hour phone bank shifts. Shifts will run from10am to 2pm and 2pm to 6pm on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday at Republican HQ in Freehold. Please spread the word to your friends and family. If you are able to help with this effort, please call HQ at 732-431-6664.

Thank you for your continued help.

Sincerely,
Adam Puharic

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Adam Puharic, Chairman
Monmouth County Republican Party
www.MonmouthRepublican.org
info@MonmouthRepublican.org
732.431.6664

One Hour of phone-banking at Headquarters will win this election!

11/03/2006

Dear Fellow Republicans:

I am proud to report that our GOTV effort is nearing the 72-hour go period. This is the final phase in the election victories of Tom Kean for US Senate, Congressman Chris Smith, Leigh-Ann Bellew and Joe Sinagra for Congress, Rosemarie Peters for Surrogate, Andrew Lucas and Anna Little for Freeholder, and all of our outstanding Republican candidates.

Will you help us secure this victory with one short hour of phone banking in this crucial period?

I can not say this more clearly: if our base of Republican voters turn out in Monmouth County – there is no way we can lose! For many of you, this is a busy time of year, and the holiday season is fast approaching. I know how industrious and active our Republicans can be. But without your help, we will not win. What’s at stake in this election? Well, over $2,700 for an average working family. That is what will happen if the democrats control congress and raise our taxes as they have promised. This is terrible news for my family of 5. We will not be able to save additional money for college. I am sure it will affect you just as much.

Elections don’t only impact the candidates. Electing democrats takes money out of your wallet.

Please call us at (732) 431-6664 to sign up for a shift at the phone bank. We need your help, and you could use the $2,700 more than the democrats. Call us now.

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Adam Puharic, Chairman
Monmouth County Republican Party
www.MonmouthRepublican.org
info@MonmouthRepublican.org
732.431.6664