Dear Friends,

The Seton Hall University College Republicans proudly support Kathleen Donovan in her bid to become the next Executive of Bergen County.

In a time when families throughout Bergen County are suffering from the worst economy in America in decades, taxes are on the rise, burdening Bergen’s tax payers with ever larger bills from municipalities, the county and state. With the Obama Administration and the Pelosi-Reid Congress’ decision to allow the Bush-era tax cuts to expire, the pain of higher taxes will be even greater for everyone.

Elected leaders across the country, from the municipal and county level to the federal government, have been taxing and spending for far too long. Many politicians raise taxes; few cut them.

Kathe Donovan is the one candidate in the race for Bergen County Executive who has proven she can do more with less money. In her twenty-two year tenure as County Clerk, she had found ways to save Bergen taxpayers’ money each and every year. As Executive she will partner with municipalities to eliminate redundant services, saving money and resources.

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Hey everyone, it’s election day. School board and school budgets are up for a vote today.

I urge every one of you to get out and vote “no” on your budget and then push the button for the most fiscally responsible people running for board. I.e. not the incumbents.

GRIP

Hey Everyone. I wanted to take this opportunity to share with you a joint venture between Comcast and RightNetwork.

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Here are a couple of their videos, available at RightNetwork.com.

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School board elections are often overlooked yet they are very important. The school budget makes up a sizable chunk of most municipal taxes that burden residents. This year, Seton Hall CRs is proud that one of their own, Matt Gilson, will be seeking a seat on the Board of Education in his hometown of Rutherford. The election, to be held April 20th, will be for three seats. None of the incumbents have indicated yet whether they will seek election. He has cited a need for smarter spending and an end to failing programs as his main reasons for running. Let us all offer whatever we can to our fellow CR in his campaign, this is a great opportunity to show that CRs can make a difference.

The final cost for CPAC comes to $90 per person. We cannot pay for the hotel rooms until you have paid your portion of the rooms because we need to have the money in our account before we can get final authorization to book the room. Please pay Rickey Santussuo (richard.santosusso@student.shu.edu) as soon as possible. We would like to book the hotel rooms next Monday, so try to get us the money before then. If you are unable to pay the $90 before then, please contact myself or Rickey asap so we can try to work something out. As a reminder, you are responsible for your registration fees, which you should have already paid, as well as food, drink and any transportation fees you incur in DC itself (mainly the Metro). Also, the plan is to carpool to DC and back. Expect to leave Seton Hall Wednesday, Feb. 17th and return Saturday, Feb 20th.

Hello All,

On behalf of the entire Executive Board I would like to wish you and your families a Happy Thanksgiving.

I know for many of us this break could not come soon enough!  Enjoy your break and we look forward to seeing all of you after the break!

I hope you all have safe trips to wherever you find yourself this holiday.

Sincerely,

Gary

Ladies and Gentlemen,

From the bottom of my heart, I would like to thank you for working harder than any other College Republican chapter in the state.

From the beginning of the semester I have asked a lot of you and you have come through more than I ever imagined. We, as a chapter, made 13,000 phone calls and did $1,600 worth of $50 Get Out The Vote (GOTV) shifts.

That is an unprecedented amount of work for a College Republicans chapter which happens to be located in a town that went 7,228 to 1,568 for Obama last year. The final numbers have yet to come out for the Village of South Orange, but I guarantee you that YOU made a dent in that number this year.

As Chairman, my job description is to motivate and energize… you made my job easy. I gave you a list of goals and you smashed every single one of them. I asked for 10,000 calls, I got 13,000; I asked for 2 or three kids to do paid GOTV shifts, I got 8; I could not be more thankful for that effort.

The difference in this election (as of now) is 104,000 votes. Look at it this way, you reached out to 15k of them. That’s about 14.4% which is an incredible impact for one organization.

So, once again, thank you for being the most incredible CRs in the state. Thank you for working harder than Ricky and I even imagined in our wildest dreams. Thank you for proving to everyone that Seton Hall DOES have an active group of Republicans.

Most importantly, thank you for being a KEY FORCE in the election of our next governor, Christopher J. Christie.

Sincerely,

Gary La Spisa, II

Chairman, Seton Hall College Republicans

Congrats to our new Freshman Rep! I hope to see him rise up to a leadership position in the club!

Seton Hall College Republicans and the Students for Individual Liberty are teaming up for a showing of “The Cartel” on Wednesday night at 8:30pm in Fahy 124! Facebook event here.

“The Cartel” is a documentary that takes us inside some of New Jersey’s worst public schools to answer the simple question: why do we pay so much for failure? See how schools give up on students, good teachers are silenced, and New Jersey taxpayers get fleeced. From their website:

“These are real children whose lives are being destroyed,” director Bob Bowdon explains.

The Cartel shows us our educational system like we’ve never seen it before. Behind every dropout factory, we discover, lurks a powerful, entrenched, and self-serving cartel. But The Cartel doesn’t just describe the problem.

Balancing local storylines against interviews with education experts such as Clint Bolick (former president of Alliance for School Choice), Gerard Robinson (president of Black Alliance for Educational Options), and Chester Finn (president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute), The Cartel explores what dedicated parents, committed teachers, clear-eyed officials, and tireless reformers are doing to make our schools better for our kids.