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
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