| Written and distributed since 2003 by Donald Katz, Esq., Republican State Committeeman for Middlesex County and Counsel, Middlesex County Republican Organization THE MCRO CAMPAIGN KICKOFF 250TH CELEBRATION FUNDRAISER IS ON SEPTEMBER 15TH. PLEASE COME SO THAT THE MCRO CAN HELP OUR CANDIDATES! GOP COUNTY COMMITTEE CAN COME AT A DISCOUNTED RATE The Middlesex County Republican Organization will be holding a Campaign Kickoff Dinner/Reception 250thCelebration on Tuesday, September 15th from 6:00 to 9:00 pm at the Forsgate Country Club, 375 Forsgate Drive, Monroe Township. We will be celebrating the country’s 250th birthday. There will be a buffet dinner, cash bar and entertainment. The tickets are $200.00 per person, but tickets for GOP county committee members are a discounted rate of $70.00 each. Please come and help the Middlesex County Republican Organization so it can help our candidates. Write and mail checks to: Middlesex County Republican Organization, P.O. Box 6953, 614 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick, New Jersey 08816. For RSVP, registration and sponsorship information please email: chair@middlesexgopnj.org. DEM GOVERNOR ADMITS A “GLITCH” WHICH IMPROPERLY REGISTERED SOME 6,600 NON-CITIZENS TO VOTE AND AT LEAST 400 OF THEM VOTED. THE STATE KNEW ABOUT THE “GLITCH” FOR 3 YEARS BUT DIDN’T TELL ANYONE ABOUT IT, OR DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT, UNTIL THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT STARTED ASKING FOR INFORMATION ABOUT NON-CITIZEN VOTING Most of you are probably already aware of the so-called “glitch” where that some 6,600 people who were non-citizens were registered to vote through the NJ Motor Vehicle Commission for a year, during 2022 – 2023, and, subsequently, around 400 of them voted one or more times. I have the following initial comments/thoughts: First, this is the tip of the iceberg. Republicans have been pointing out this problem for years – and it is clearly not limited to that one-year period. The New Jersey Republican State Committee’s Election Integrity Task Force, (of which I am a member), publicly announced their discovery of non-citizens registered and voting – and definitely not limited to that one-year period – months ago. Without a doubt, there will be more to come. Second, this “glitch” was apparently discovered by the state government in 2023, since the “glitch” was corrected at that time. However, the public was not told about this until over 3 years later, and, even more importantly, the 6,600 individuals who were illegally registered – with at least 400 voting one or more times – were left on the voting rolls for over 3 years, with no one from the government, (when the government knew about it), doing anything to correct it. Third, any number of Dem government officials and other so-called “experts” have been claiming, since the admission that 400 people in the glitch group illegally voted one or more times, that 400 was a such a small number compared to the total number of voters registered in NJ, that it was really nothing and really couldn’t have affected any elections, even though, as of this date, the state is still refusing to identify where and when these 400 people voted. This is absolutely incorrect. Every year there are local elections won and lost by single digits. In Middlesex County alone, over the years, there were at least three elections where the winning/losing margin was just one vote, (Metuchen, Milltown and Old Bridge), and, just during a single one of the general election years, post-glitch, in Middlesex County, in 2025 the South River margin of victory/defeat was 6 votes. There definitely will be more to come, since there will be continued pressure for the state to release more information. Watch for further developments. POLITICAL TRIVIA: Here are some political trivia questions. I hope you enjoy them. The answers are below, immediately above the calendar: 1. Who was the first President born in New York? 2. Ronald Reagan gave a speech “A Time for Choosing” in support of what candidate? 3. Who came in second to Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 Presidential Election? 4. Thomas Jefferson received what unusual pet at the White House? 5. What US Senate practice takes its name from a Dutch word meaning “pirate”? 6. Which was the last state to ratify the US Constitution? 7. Who is the only US President to have twin children? NEW LAW JUST SIGNED WHICH ALLOWS PEOPLE WHO ARE COLLECTING UNEMPLOYMENT TO WORK AS A POLL CLERK WITHOUT IT AFFECTING THEIR UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION A new law, (Public Law 2026 Chapter 47, Bill A1516), was just signed by the governor, which allows people who are collecting unemployment compensation to work as poll clerks and collect up to $1,000 per year and not have it affect their unemployment compensation and which sum will not be included in determining those unemployment benefits. If you, or some other Republican you know, is in that situation, we can use their help. See the next article. ELECTION DAY REPUBLICAN POLL CLERKS NEEDED As those of you who have read these e-mail newsletters from me for some time already know, the Board of Elections will honor poll clerk appointment recommendations made by each GOP municipal chairman (or his or her designee), provided they are submitted in a timely fashion. If the Republican organizations don’t make these appointments, the Board of Elections will fill the slots with whoever they can find – sometimes with Unaffiliated voters and, we have found, that there are actually registered Democrats in some of the Republican poll clerk positions stemming from times when local Republican organizations failed to make Republican recommendations for the positions. We Republicans have few patronage positions in Middlesex County, so it behooves us to fill the Republican poll clerk positions with real Republicans – and to ask them to help the party and our candidates on non-election days. If you are interested in this paid position, contact your GOP Municipal Chair as soon as possible. If the positions are all filled in your municipality there are definitely vacancies in other towns in the county and if your town’s municipal chair or its poll clerk coordinator don’t have openings or can’t directly refer you to a town that needs Republican poll clerks, you can call the Board of Elections directly at 732-745-3471. EVEN IN A DEM COUNTY, THE DEMOCRATS ARE HIDING THEIR PARTY AFFILIATION ON MUCH OF THEIR LITERATURE At the Middlesex County Fair, I went up to the Democrat booth and asked for a copy of each piece of campaign literature they were distributing. There were five pieces, each from a different campaign. Of the five, three of them never mentioned “Democrat” once, (Metuchen, South Amboy and Sayreville), the Cory Booker for US Senate literature only referenced “Democrats” once, (in smaller print and only as part of a presumed quote from the Washington Post), and even in the piece of literature for the county Democrat candidates, there was only a single reference to Democrat, which was the one reference to the “Middlesex County Democratic Organization”. Perhaps the Democrats, by their actions, are now, at least tacitly, admitting that their brand is so unpopular, that mentioning their party on their literature won’t help them get more votes – and perhaps it might lose them some? REPUBLICAN WOMEN HAVE A MOVIE NIGHT ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 14TH. LET THEM KNOW IF YOU WANT TO ATTEND The Middlesex County Republican Women’s Club is going to the movies on Friday, August 14th at the AMC Theatre on Route 1 in New Brunswick, to see the new movie “The Brink of War”, starring Jeff Daniels as President Ronald Reagan. They have a block of 20 seats at $12.50 per person and you should contact MCRWC President Tonia Kulberda, 973-885-1930 or tonia.kulberda@gmail.com if you are interested. They will be meeting up at 7:00 pm for the 7:30 pm show. The movie is about the tense 1986 Reykjavik Summit, where Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev negotiated to dismantle nuclear weapons. ANSWERS TO POLITICAL TRIVIA: 1. Martin Van Buren in Kinderhook, New York in 1782. 2. Barry Goldwater. Reagan filmed the speech “A Time for Choosing” in support of Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign. It aired on October 27, 1964, and it helped make Reagan a star in the Republican Party. 3. Stephen A. Douglas. The election of 1860, which was contested among Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and the eventual winner, Republican Abraham Lincoln. After Lincoln, Douglas took the lion’s share of the remaining vote. 4. Bears. In 1807, Zebulon Pike explored the West on President Jefferson’s orders. He bought two grizzly bear cubs and sent them to Washington, where Jefferson had them put in an enclosure on the White House lawn. Telling his granddaughter that they were “too dangerous and troublesome,” Jefferson eventually gave them to museum keeper Charles Peale — but he told Peale that the cubs were “perfectly gentle” and “good-humored.” 5. Filibuster. The word “filibuster” evolved from a Dutch word meaning “pirate,” as a legislator could “hijack” discussion to delay a vote. The practice dates to ancient Rome, and it gained popularity in the U.S. in the 1850s. In the 1880s, someone referred to a fellow legislator as a “filibuster,” and the name stuck. 6. Rhode Island. George Washington had already been inaugurated as the first President when the last two of the 13 original U.S. states ratified the Constitution. Only nine states were necessary to ratify the Constitution, so it officially became law on June 21, 1788, when New Hampshire voted to ratify. Virginia, New York, and North Carolina followed suit, and finally Rhode Island in 1790. 7. George W. Bush. Fraternal twins Jenna Bush (Hager) and Barbara Bush (Coyne) are children of one President (George W. Bush) and grandchildren of another (George H.W. Bush). UPDATED CALENDAR What follows is an updated calendar. If you have any municipal or countywide fundraisers or functions you would like me to include in my e-mail calendar from time to time, please contact me at dkatzlaw@aol.com. Please note that organizations and campaigns sometimes provide added information, change dates, or cancel events, which I include in this calendar if I receive the information in time. Therefore, if you plan to attend an event, please make sure you review the calendar listing in my latest e-mail and, to the extent you may not have pre-registered for the particular event so the sponsoring group will be able to contact you about any changes, you may want to check with the sponsoring group before you go, to make sure the information has not changed. Also, please be aware that these e-mails are not official MCRO notices or mailings; they are just something I do, voluntarily, to help our Republican Party. August 21 (Friday 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm) – Edison GOP Retirement Celebration honoring Sylvia Engel on her Retirement as Edison GOP Chair. The Parlor at Hailey’s, 15 Station Place, Metuchen (Located at Hailey’s Harp & Pub). $50 per person. RSVP to Edison GOP Chair Keith Hahn at khahn310@yahoo.com or 732-245-2075. September 15 (Tuesday 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm) – Middlesex County Republican Organization Campaign Kickoff 2026 250th Celebration. Forsgate Country Club, 375 Forsgate Drive, Monroe Township. Buffet Dinner, Cash Bar & Entertainment. $200 per person, County Committee at a reduced rate of $70. Municipal/Local GOP Club Table Sponsor $650 for a table of 10. Write and mail checks to: Middlesex County Republican Organization, P.O. Box 6953, 614 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick, New Jersey 08816. For RSVP, registration and sponsorship information please email : chair@middlesexgopnj.org. September 18-19 (Friday-Saturday) – NJGOP Summit. Resorts, Atlantic City. September 20 (Sunday 1:00 pm -5:00 pm) – Piscataway Republican Organization presents a Meet and Greet the candidates event in Johnson Park, off River Road in Piscataway. Additional information added when available. 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