| Written and distributed since 2003 by Donald Katz, Esq., Republican State Committeeman for Middlesex County and Counsel, Middlesex County Republican Organization AN ELECTION DAY CHALLENGER’S TRAINING SESSION WILL BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28TH IN EAST BRUNSWICK: IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE A CHALLENGER, BE THERE! If you will be working as a challenger on Election Day for our GOP candidates and party, be sure to come to the challenger’s training session I will be running on behalf of the MCRO. It will be held on Wednesday, October 28th at 7:00 pm at the VFW Post at 485 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick and is being hosted by the East Brunswick Republican Municipal Committee. (The VFW post is the building behind the University Radiology building). You don’t need to register in advance for this free training session – just show up. This session is open to all interested Middlesex County Republicans and congressional campaign volunteers from out of Middlesex County who are from either of the congressional districts that include part of Middlesex County, (the 6th and the 12 CDs). Come and learn what can and cannot be done in the polling places on Election Day! If you are a candidate, whether or not you will have challengers, you also might find it useful to attend, since a candidate can go into any polling location where he or she is on the ballot and have the same rights as credentialed challengers. I would note that I have been giving these sessions for over 40 years and they are so good that I have often been requested to give them to Republicans in other counties and, when it is possible, I have tried to accommodate. I have, in the past, also given these sessions in Union County, Mercer County and Somerset County. Come and learn useful things that could help our candidates and party. IF YOU HAVEN’T SENT IN YOUR VOTE-BY-MAIL BALLOT YET, OR YOU KNOW ANOTHER REPUBLICAN WHO HASN’T YET SENT IN THEIR VOTE-BY-MAIL BALLOT YET – DO IT NOW OR HAVE THEM DO IT NOW! BEST WAY TO RETURN THE BALLOT IS TO PUT IT IN ANY OF THE 30+ DROP BOXES IN THE COUNTY. THERE IS AT LEAST ONE IN EVERY TOWN. 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 last President to be born in a log cabin? 2. The presidential elections of 1896, 1900 and 1908 were lost by which major party candidate? 3. What kind of animal did Thomas Jefferson often carry? 4. Which Ohioan was the first US President to receive 60% of the popular vote? 5. After the US Vice President, who is next in line for US President? 6. Which US President lies in the largest mausoleum in North America? 7. What Jelly Bean flavor was created for Ronald Reagan’s inauguration? 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, (One February, 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 who 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. 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 24th through Sunday, November 1st. 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, (almost 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 (This building used to be the Hungarian American Citizens Club) WE STILL NEED MORE REPUBLICAN ELECTION DAY POLL CLERKS: EARN $300+ AND HELP THE REPUBLICAN PARTY We still need more Republican Poll Clerks on Election Day, especially in some of our strongest Democrat towns. Republican Poll Clerks who do their job and make sure everything is done by the rules are a great help to the Republican party and our candidates. If you work on Election Day you will earn $300 and when you take the required pre-election training, you will earn another $30. The contact information for individual Board of Elections employees who are handing each Middlesex County municipality is in my last newsletter. If you don’t have my last newsletter available, you can always call the Board of Elections directly at the general number 732-745-3471. IMPORTANT INFORMATION FROM HAROLD KANE ABOUT ADAM HAMAWY, THE DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS IN CD 12 The following is a letter/note from Harold Kane, MCRO Treasurer, about Adam Hamawy, the Democrat candidate for congress in the 12th Congressional District (which includes about half of Middlesex County): DEMOCRAT SCAM ARTIST? Hamawy served 8 years in the NJ National Guard. His service as a physician was acceptable in that he was not the first Medical Officer that the National Guard ever had. He claimed that he saved the life of a future member of Congress. At the time he treated an Army helicopter pilot named Tammy Duckworth. He did what any Army Medical Officer would have done to aid Duckworth. Hamawy is currently a licensed plastic surgeon with an office in Princeton, New Jersey Sometime after his National Guard service he applied for a Veterans Administration disability pension connected to his military service. This disability pension for Hamawy is rated at 100%. This level of disability grants him an exemption from property tax payments. While his neighbors on Point of the Woods Drive in South Brunswick pay, on average, $29,000, Hamawy pays nothing. (Source – Middlesex County Tax Board – NJ Assessment Records) Coupled with the tax exemption is a VA pension which is tax free. Hamawy receives $49,898 from the VA and avoids $29,000 in property tax payments. This puts $78,898 in his pocket since he claims to be “totally disabled”. This “disability” begs another question. If he is 100% disabled, how does he maintain a medical practice? Shouldn’t there be some restriction on his medical practice so that the “disability” doesn’t harm any of his plastic surgery patients? Did he lie on his application for his license and did not inform the NJ Department of Health of the disability? If he defined his disability, are any restrictions stated on his license? If he defined his disability on his application, did the State Health Department give him a pass and issue an unrestricted license? These questions need to be answered. Does he deserve a 100% disability rating or is this just a scam to get free money? Harold Kane Monroe Township, NJ USN 1964-1972 Current recipient of a 10% disability for hearing loss (I, as do all veterans in NJ, receive a $250 reduction in property taxes.) ANSWERS TO POLITICAL TRIVIA: 1. James Garfield was born in a log cabin in 1831 near Orange Township (now called Moreland Hills), Ohio. 2. Democrat, William Jennings Bryan. He was a brilliant orator and shrewd lawyer but never achieved the highest office in the land, despite trying three times. Bryan served in the House of Representatives from 1891 to 1895, but during the elections of 1896, 1900, and 1908, he lost to William McKinley twice and William Taft once. After his failed presidential bids, Bryan served as secretary of state under Woodrow Wilson. 3. Mockingbirds. Jefferson kept several but was especially fond of a male mockingbird he named Dick. According to the Presidential Pet Museum, a friend wrote that Jefferson cherished the bird “with peculiar fondness, not only for its melodious powers but for its uncommon intelligence and affectionate disposition.” He would leave Dick’s cage open in the White House, allowing the bird to fly around his office, and sometimes carried him on his shoulder. He is also said to have occasionally fed the bird by putting a piece of food in his mouth and allowing Dick to pluck it from between his lips. 4. Warren G. Harding. When he was elected as the 29th President of the United States, he did so in an unprecedented landslide victory, gaining 7 million more votes than Democrat James M. Cox. 5. Speaker of the House, (followed by the president pro tem of the Senate, and finally the Secretary of State. After that, the presidential backups wind through the president’s Cabinet, in order of the Department’s creation.) 6. Ulysses S. Grant. Constructed in 1897, Ulysses S. Grant’s Tomb is the largest mausoleum in North America. The 18th President wished to be buried next to his wife Julia, which eliminated many typical military cemeteries, and landed him instead on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The impressive granite and marble structure was designed by architect John Duncan. 7. Blue. Ronald Reagan famously quit smoking by replacing his pipes with his favorite candy: jelly beans from the Herman Goelitz Candy Company. After Reagan was elected to the presidency, Goelitz wanted to send him red, white, and blue Jelly Bellys for his inauguration. But there was no blue flavor to go along with the company’s cherry red and coconut white beans. So, the company created a blueberry Jelly Belly to complete the trifecta. 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 24 (Saturday) – November 1 (Sunday) – Early Voting Period (Any voter registered in Middlesex County can vote at any of the 10 Early Voting Sites in Middlesex County.) October 27 (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 28 (Wednesday 7:00 pm – ) – Election Day Challenger’s Training for all interested Middlesex County Republicans. East Brunswick VFW, 485 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick. (Hosted by the East Brunswick Republican Municipal Committee) November 2 (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-C Kennedy Boulevard, East Brunswick, New Jersey), in order to vote in the General Election. November 3 (Tuesday 6:00 am – 8:00 pm) – General Election November 10 (Tuesday 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm) – Middlesex County Republican Women’s Club Meeting, East Brunswick Library, 2 Civic Center Drive, (off Ryder’s Lane), East Brunswick. December 8 (Tuesday 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm) – Middlesex County Republican Women’s Club Meeting, East Brunswick Library, 2 Civic Center Drive, (off Ryder’s Lane), East Brunswick. Program includes election of officers. December 10 (Thursday) – Middlesex County Republican Organization Holiday Party, Palms Plaza, 343 Route 34, Matawan (actually in Old Bridge) (More information added when available.) December 12 (Saturday, Departing from North Brunswick by bus at 7:30 am and returning at 3:00 pm) – Middlesex County Republican Women’s Club Holiday Bus Trip to Trump Tower in NYC. $100.00 per person, which 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 or pay online at https://sbgop.wufoo.com/forms/mcrwc-america-250-bus-trip-to-trump-tower February 28 (Sunday) – Middlesex County Republican Women’s Club Reagan Day Event. Forsgate Country Club, 375 Forsgate Drive, Monroe Township, (More information added when available.) 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 bottom of this e-mail. Donald Katz, Esq. 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