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