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Conservatives Make Case for Changing the Face of NJ's GOP
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| Last Edited | User 13 May 12, 2003 11:36am |
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| News Date | Monday, May 12, 2003 05:36:52 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | New Jersey's liberal Republican Party leadership may be witnessing a surge of conservative ideology and candidates for the State Legislature.
Where once it was taboo for New Jersey Republicans to openly refer to themselves as "pro-life" or "a conservative leader," this message is now becoming the foundation of several campaigns, including one against the current State Senate president.
"We're not just saying what we are against. We are saying what we are about," said Rick Shaftan, spokesman for the campaign of Jay Schainholz, a conservative running against seven-term Assemblywoman Rose Heck in the state's 38th District, located in affluent Bergen County next door to New York City.
In a recent ad airing on talk radio giant WABC-AM, Schainholz proclaimed that he is "a solid conservative," and that Trenton, the state capital, "needs a conservative change."
"Conservatives have been turned off at the New Jersey Republican Party. When all is said and done, there really isn't much of a difference here between Democrats and Republicans," said Schainholz, who admitted the first politician he ever voted for was Ronald Reagan. |
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