| Written and distributed since 2003 by Donald Katz, Esq., Republican State Committeeman for Middlesex County and Counsel, Middlesex County Republican Organization VOTE EARLY!! Don’t wait until Election Day, if you are not voting by mail, you should vote in person during the Early Voting Period. Why, should I do that, you may ask? There are many good reasons to vote early rather than on Election Day. For example: 1. You are sick on Election Day 2. There is some family emergency that you must attend to on Election Day 3. If you are working, something at work requires you to come in early or stay late so you can’t get to your polling place on Election Day. 4 A weather event that would make it difficult to get out to your polling place on Election Day, (In February, a few years ago, it snowed during the Fire District Elections.) 5. The election machines go down or slow down so that there is a very long line at the polls on Election Day. (In Middlesex County, there have been instances where voters had to wait an hour or an hour and a half to vote and if you couldn’t wait, you wouldn’t have been able to vote. On the other hand, if you vote during the Early Voting Period, there is likely to be no line and you may very well be able to complete the whole process in less than 5 minutes.) (Since early in-person voting has been in place, since 2021, I have visited virtually all of the early voting sites, some on several occasions over the years, and I have never encountered a line at any of the locations, (with one exception, being the first day of early voting for the presidential election in 2024, when there were also some issues with the machines, which were corrected before the start of the second day of early voting). Each location has multiple electronic poll book stations and multiple voting machines, so multiple voters can be accommodated at the same time. 6. You are working the polls on Election Day or working on get-out-the-vote activities for our candidates on Election Day. If you vote early, it will prevent you from having to take time off from your other Election Day activities to go vote at your local polling location. Early, in-person, voting uses the same electronic poll books and voting machines as on Election Day and your voting experience is the same – except it may take you much less time to vote. Your vote is just as secure as if you voted on Election Day. This year, the Early Voting Period runs from Saturday, October 25th through Sunday, November 2rd. The voting hours each day are from 10:00 am through 8:00 pm, except on Sundays when they are from 10:00 am through 6:00 pm. There are 10 Early Voting Sites around the county and you can go vote at any one which happens to be convenient for you. It doesn’t have to be the closest location to your house. The Early Voting Sites for this election, (all of which have been at the same locations they have been for the last several elections), are as follows: 1. East Brunswick – East Brunswick Community Center, 721 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick 2. Edison – Minnie B. Veal Community Center, 1070 Grove Avenue, Edison 3. Monroe – Monroe Public Library, 4 Municipal Plaza, Monroe Township 4. New Brunswick – New Brunswick Hub Teen Center, 411 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, New Brunswick 5. Old Bridge – Richard Cooper Civic Center, 1 Old Bridge Plaza, Old Bridge 6. Perth Amboy – A. F. Jankowski Community Center, 1 Olive Street, Perth Amboy 7. Piscataway – John F. Kennedy Public Library, 500 Hoes Lane, Piscataway 8. Sayreville – Sayreville Senior Center, 423 Main Street, Sayreville 9. South Brunswick – South Brunswick Community Center, 124 New Road, Monmouth Junction 10. Woodbridge – Acacia Youth Center, 95 Port Reading Avenue, Port Reading, Woodbridge (This building used to be the Hungarian American Citizens Club) POLITICAL TRIVIA: Here are some political trivia questions. I hope you enjoy them. The answers are below, immediately above the calendar: 1. The stripes on the U.S. flag represent the 13 original colonies. True or False? 2. Who was the first First Lady born outside of America? 3. Who was the only U.S. President to never marry? 4. Which U.S. President had the most children? 5. President William Howard Taft kept which barnyard animal as a pet? 6. Who was the first President to visit Europe while in office? 7. Who is the first President for which we have surviving photos? 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, some Municipal Clerks make the appointments and otherwise 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 and especially when the Municipal Clerks, (especially in Democrat towns like New Brunswick where they the Democrat clerk has apparently been doing this on purpose. This year, I made a strong point that filling Republican poll clerk positions with Democrats is illegal and the Board of Elections is working to correct this, especially in places like New Brunswick, but they can’t fill the spots with Republicans unless more Republicans step up and volunteer to work in these paid positions. It behooves us to fill the Republican poll clerk positions with real Republicans both to avoid or limit voter fraud on Election Day and otherwise to keep the election process on Election Day as fair and honest as possible. If you are or someone you know is interested in this paid position, you or they should contact their GOP Municipal Chair as soon as possible or call the Board of Elections directly at 732-745-3471. PAID DOOR KNOCKING OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE NOW This year the NJGOP is proud to be providing unprecedented resources to support our county parties and down ballot races, including paid door knocking shifts. We need your help to fill these shifts so we can hit every one of our GOTV targets! 1 Shift = 200 Doors = $100. They have 450 Shifts to give out, which is 90,000 Doors. Please share this opportunity with your county committee members, candidates, friends, family, neighbors, and fellow Jack supporters. To sign up, email: Connor Butz cbutz@njgop.org 732-829-7622 Sign Up Link: https://forms.gle/16okPrvDCsMnYmKY8 IRS Form to Fill out and Upload to Google forms https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf Boots on the ground = cash in your pocket. Let’s send Mikie on the first helicopter flight out of New Jersey! Note: Candidates and elected officials cannot be paid. All participants must use the Numinar app, which is simple, and our team can train you in less than 10 minutes. This correspondence is for emails only. Please do not post on social media for recruiting. CONDOLENCES… * My deepest condolences to Brian Levine on the recent death of his mother. Brian is a former mayor of Franklin Township and a former Somerset County Freeholder. Brian also ran for State Senate in the 17th LD and grew up and lived in Edison and Highland Park before he moved to Franklin Township. * My deepest condolences to Angela and the rest of the Adinolfi family on the death of Alfonso J Aldinolfi. Al was a GOP county committee member in South Brunswick and, before he moved there from Milburn around 20 years ago, he served as the Republican State Committeeman from Essex County, during the time of some of my early service as State Committeeman from Middlesex County. DON’T FORGET ABOUT THE SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS In almost all of our municipalities, the school board elections are now in November, at the same time as our regular general elections. The percentage of your property tax dollars controlled by your local school board far exceeds the percentage controlled by your local municipality and the county combined. So, it is in your best interest to pay attention to the school board races and vote for the people who you think will do the best job. To that end, even though school board races are officially non-partisan, Dems in any number of towns, either overtly or covertly, support candidates and slates of candidates, so I would suggest you find out if any Republicans are running or perhaps talk to your local Republican leaders to see what they think about the local races before you make your decision. NJ CONSERVATIVE GOP LOOKING FOR MEMBERS Paul Danielczyk asks that anyone interested in being a member of the NJ Conservative GOP should e-mail him at njcgop@aol.com for an application. ANSWERS TO POLITICAL TRIVIA: 1. True. The 13 red-and-white stripes on the American flag represent the original colonies, while the 50 stars represent the current number of states. 2. Louisa Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams, was born in London to a British mother and an American father. She remained the first and only First Lady born outside of America until Melania Trump, who was born in Slovenia. 3. James Buchanan 4. John Tyler. Although a handful of Presidents never fathered children, the majority had at least one child, with the average being four children. The 10th President, John Tyler, fathered 16 children — 15 with his two wives and one born out of wedlock. 5. A cow. President William Howard Taft kept multiple cows at the White House during his term from 1909 to 1913. In 1910, he received Pauline Wayne as a gift from a Wisconsin senator to replace his last cow, Mooly Wooly. Though Pauline was mainly kept for her dairy production — reportedly 25 pounds of butter a week and 9 gallons of milk a day — she also became popular in the media, and was even interviewed by “The Washington Post.” 6. Woodrow Wilson. Wilson became the first sitting President to visit Europe when he sailed to France in December 1918 for a World War I peace conference. He spent the next six months going back and forth to champion his idea for a League of Nations. Wilson traveled via the S.S. George Washington, which took nine days to cross the ocean before entering Brest harbor. 7. John Quincy Adams. In 1843, long after he had left office, John Quincy Adams sat for a photography session at his home in Massachusetts in 1843. A few daguerreotypes were taken at the time, and though Adams found them “hideous” and “too true to the original,” they remain important historical artifacts. The images depict Adams at the age of 75 and are now held by the National Portrait Gallery under the care of the Smithsonian. 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. October 22 (Wednesday 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm) – Monroe GOP Council Candidates Meet & Greet. Baker’s American Bar & Grill, 801 NJ-33, Monroe. $25.00 per person. Any questions, call 732-439-9134. Checks payable to MTRO should be mailed to 404 Spotswood Gravel Hill Road, Monroe Township, NJ 08831. For any questions, call 732-439-9134. October 22 (Wednesday 6:00 pm- ) – Jack for Governor Rally. Brunswick Grove, 327 Milltown Road, East Brunswick. If further details are needed, contact Connor Butz, cbutz@njgop.org. October 23 (Thursday, Doors open at 6:00 pm, Program begins 7:00 pm) – American First Republicans Unity Rally for Jack. Forsgate Country Club, 375 Forsgate Country Club, Monroe Township. Hosts include Steve Lonigan, Bill Palatucci, Mike Crispi and others. RSVP to michaeldbyrne@gmail.com or rmkovic@yahoo.com. October 23 (Thursday 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm) – LD 12/Old Bridge GOP GOTV Rally with Jack for Governor. Palms Plaza, 343 Route 34, Matawan. For more details contact Anissa Esposito, 732-546-7341 or toma1926@aol.com. October 25 (Saturday) – November 2 (Sunday) – Early Voting Period (Any voter registered in Middlesex County can vote at any of the 10 Early Voting Sites in Middlesex County.) October 28 (Tuesday) – Last day for vote-by-mail ballot applications to be received by the County Clerk by mail in order to vote in the General Election. (Middlesex County Clerk, P.O. Box 1110, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1110). October 29 (Wednesday 7:00 pm – ) – Old Bridge Early Voting Rally with Jack Ciattarelli, Old Bridge Building Department Parking Lot, 1 Old Bridge Plaza, Old Bridge. If further details are needed, contact Connor Butz, cbutz@njgop.org. November 1 (Saturday 10:00 am – ) – Woodbridge Early Voting Rally with Jack Ciattarelli, 580 Amboy Avenue, Woodbridge. If further details are needed, contact Connor Butz, cbutz@njgop.org November 3 (Monday 3:00 pm) – Last day to apply for a mail-in ballot in person (or by authorized messenger) at the County Clerk’s office (26-B Kennedy Boulevard, East Brunswick, New Jersey), in order to vote in the General Election. November 4 (Tuesday 6:00 am – 8:00 pm) – General Election December 6 (Saturday, Departing North Brunswick by bus at 7:30 am) – Middlesex County Republican Women’s Club Holiday Bus Trip to Trump Tower in NYC. $80.00 early bird price (which ends 10/1/25?) includes Bus, Breakfast at the Trump Grill, Taxes and Gratuities. Send checks payable to “MCRWC” and attendee information to P.O. Box 5274, Old Bridge, NJ 08857. December 10 (Wednesday 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm) – East Brunswick Republican Club Holiday Party. Camillo’s Italian Restaurant, 31 MacArthur Street, Sayreville. RSVP with your check ($35 per person) to EBRC, PO Box 893, East Brunswick, NJ 08816. December 12 (Friday 6:00 pm – 10:30 pm) – Clearbrook Republican Club Holiday Party. Clearbrook Cultural Center in the Clearbrook Community off Applegarth Road, Monroe Township. DJ., dancing and door prizes. Includes full dinner (dessert and soft drinks will be provided) BYOB – Wine and Beer only. Tickets: $47 each, must be payable in advance no later than December 5, with checks made payable to ‘MTRC” and sent to Melody Henry, 264A Glen Road, Monroe Township, NJ 08831. Please forward this information to any Middlesex County Republican, or other individuals, who you think might be interested in seeing it, but, before you forward it, make sure you delete the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of this e-mail, otherwise one of the people you forward it to may unsubscribe you and the program will not let me add you back to my mailing list. Further, if you know of any Middlesex County Republicans who would like to receive periodic reports about Republican-related information I believe might be interesting or useful, please have them send me, Donald Katz, an e-mail to dkatzlaw@aol.com, and I will add them to my e-mail list. By the same token, if you ever wish to be removed from my e-mail list, click “unsubscribe” at the foot of this e-mail. Donald Katz, Esq. Republican State Committeeman – Middlesex County and Counsel, Middlesex County Republican Organization dkatzlaw@aol.com 119 Leeds Lane Monroe Township, NJ 08831 (C) 908-227-9239 Copyright © 2025 Donald Katz, All rights reserved, except forwarding of entire newsletter to Republicans is permitted and encouraged and excerpts may be used for non-commercial purposes provided the excerpts are attributed to Donald Katz |
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