Building the New Majority

PRINCETON, N.J.—Bill Spadea of Building the New Majority has endorsed retired state police Captain Keith B. Hackett and Harold V. Kane for Middlesex County Sheriff and Clerk, respectively.

Bill Spadea is a political consultant and grassroots political leader, and chairs the Princeton based community civics organization Building the New Majority. The organization actively supports candidates for local office who seek to make government more accountable to the people. Spadea believes that the Sheriff’s office needs the extensive leadership that Hackett brings from his extensive managerial experience in both the public and private sector. Additionally, Kane, as a telecommunications specialist, is needed to bring the clerk’s office up to date and reconnect it with the people it serves.

Spadea explains that “Building the New Majority is a New Jersey organization created to identify, develop and empower candidates. Our primary focus is the development of candidates for local, county and state offices through direct contributions and grassroots support in order to help rebuild the New Jersey Republican organization from the ground up. We work in tandem with other statewide organizations to help create an opportunity to restore transparency, accountability and responsibility at all levels of government in the Garden State.”

Hackett and Kane welcomed Spadea’s endorsement and continue to receive endorsements from community leaders and elected officials in Middlesex County.

Two days in front of a scheduled campaign kickoff by a Republican rival, 12th District Republican congressional candidate Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre announced that Bill Spadea, Republican grassroots leader and former District 12 Congressional Republican nominee, has joined the Halfacre for Congress campaign as a senior advisor.

Spadea will assist with overall strategy, grassroots outreach and fundraising. “I am thrilled that Bill Spadea has decided to join my team,” said Halfacre. “Bill was the first person I reached out to when I decided to run because he ran the kind of hardworking, grassroots campaign I’ve been running. His positive influence extends far past his hometown of Princeton or Mercer County; he is widely respected throughout the district and the state as an articulate voice for conservative principles and political strategy. His advice will be invaluable to me in my effort to defeat Rush Holt.” Spadea, president of Building the New Majority, a grassroots political organization co-founded by Republican businessman (and major motion picture subject) John Crowley, spoke favorably about Halfacre’s campaign. “I was impressed with Mike when we met in the spring and as I’ve followed his campaign for the last 8 months I think he’s said and done all the right things,” said the 2004 Republican nominee…

We did it! Congratulations to all of you who worked tirelessly through the past few months to help bring about a Republican statewide win. Not only did Chris Christie capture the Governor’s office, but dozens of our endorsed local candidates exceeded expectations throughout the state. Building the New Majority endorsed and supported sixty-one candidates for Assembly, Freeholder, Mayor, Committee and Council. On Tuesday, Thirty-three of those candidates were elected by the voters! Perhaps the best news is that twenty of the winners were NOT incumbents.

96 hours to go hour. We’ve got four more days to get the word out and motivate volunteers and voters to help send Jon Corzine back to the private sector. With your support, Building the New Majority has targeted dozens of candidates running for local offices across the state and we’re happy to report that many of these races have a great shot at winning on Election Day.

Of course the registered Democrats in New Jersey outnumber the Republicans by a nearly two-to-one margin so we’ve got some work to do. We need to spend this weekend talking to our Democratic and independent friends and get them to pull the lever for good government across the board on Tuesday. Tuesday is the day to send a message to all those corrupt parasites that have lived and prospered on the backs of the hard-working families in New Jersey for decades. By electing honest, hard-working, champions of responsible and limited government to town councils, freeholder boards, assembly seats and the Governor’s office, we’ll show them that we came prepared to fight…and win.

Our candidate list can be found at www.buildingthenewmajority.org. Find one of these courageous community leaders in your area and show up to knock on doors, make a few last minute calls, or send emails to your address book. Let people know that the opportunity for the people to take back our government is here and their vote counts. Every vote for your local candidates for Mayor, Council, Freeholder, or Assembly Member is one step closer to victory for common sense, reasonable and limited government.

Here are a few races to watch and jump in to help over the next 96 hours:

A new poll released earlier today by Club for Growth shows that Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman has surged into the lead in the NY-23 Special Congressional Election to be held Nov. 3!

Hoffman now leads with 31%, Democrat Bill Owens is at 27%, and liberal Republican Dede Scozzafava has collapsed to just 20%.

Over the weekend, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) began a new attack ad aimed solely at Hoffman – the first such ad from the DCCC. Previously, the DCCC had only attacked the Republican.

This means the DCCC’s internal polling also shows Hoffman either in the lead or having the best chance to beat the Democrat.

Their fear is clear — the Democrat and the Republican are both very liberal and will split the moderate to liberal vote. As The Wall Street Journal editorial noted last week, “James Buckley won a Senate seat as the Conservative candidate in New York in 1970 against a pair of major-party liberals.”

The new Club for Growth poll and the new DCCC ad proves the chances of a stunning Hoffman victory are now better than ever.

In the coming hours, the Hoffman campaign will be making its final decisions on how much final advertising they can afford.

William Kristol of The Weekly Standard wrote a new piece on the incredibly important NY-23 Special Congressional Election. Here is an excerpt:

The candidacy of the official Republican nominee, liberal Dede Scozzafava, selected by local party officials and supported by the national Republican establishment, is collapsing. The Republican who has a real chance to defeat Democrat Bill Owens is Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate-a Republican with a profile far more like the popular [former congressman and now Army Secretary John] McHugh, and one far more in sync with the district. What’s more, if elected, Hoffman would caucus in Congress with Republicans-whereas Scozzafava could well pull an Arlen Specter and defect to the Democrats.

It takes two to tango, and President Barack Obama and the Democratic congressional leadership repeatedly have said “no” to working with Republicans who have offered to compromise.

Obama and the Democrats said “no” on all the Republican ideas for the stimulus bill – including tax rate cuts that would stimulate the economy. They have insisted that the top income tax rates soar starting after next year, further stifling economic growth.

Let us mourn Robert Schindler, Sr., the father of Terri Schindler Schiavo. Not a politically connected man, Schindler (unlike Ted Kennedy) was on the front lines defending life – even to the end.

The pro-life movement mourns the loss of Mr. Robert Schindler, Sr., the father of Terri Schindler-Schiavo, whose fight for life captured the heart of the pro-life community in 2005. Mr. Schindler is being buried in Philadelphia today without the fanfare or accolades that are due a real champion who fought one of the most insidious evils of modern society – the legalized murder of the innocent.

His funeral will not be televised on all the cable news networks, no cardinals will attend it, and the President of the United States will not deliver the eulogy – thank God. Mr. Schindler, however, is promised a better send-off than that. God Himself will him speak to him words spoken to all the suffering righteous: “Well done, good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of your Master.”