Hillsborough GOP Club

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DelCore to be Republican Candidate for Township Committee

Two term Hillsborough Township Mayor Frank DelCore will be the 2010 Republican candidate for the Hillsborough Township Committee.

Frank is Director, Trade and Projects Finance for Alcatel-Lucent. He holds a BA Degree in Communications from Rutgers University and an MBA in Finance from the Rutgers Graduate School of Management.

Frank has served on the Hillsborough Recreation Committee since 2005, the Hillsborough Planning Commission since 2006, and the Sustainable Hillsborough Steering Committee.

He has also served on the Hillsborough Grants and Shared Services Commission.

Frank and his wife and two daughters have been Hillsborough residents since 2001.

Frank is committed to Hillsborough's future. With his strong financial experience, he is pledged to maintain fiscal discipline and work to increase ratables by continuing to support Hillsborough business.

He is also committed to fostering a family oriented Hillsborough and supports the development of recreation facilities at the former GSA Depot.

Al Gaburo, Somerset County Republican Organization Chairman, to Speak at September Meeting

The guest speaker at the September 13, 2010 Hillsborough Republican Club meeting will be Al Gaburo, Chairman of the Somerset County Republican Organization.

Mr. Gaburo is a senior executive at the Princeton Public Affairs Group, New Jerseys’ premier governmental relations firm. Over the past two decades Mr. Gaburo has earned a reputation as one of the state capital’s most knowledgeable and respected advocates. His practice centers around healthcare, insurance, transportation, maritime and environmental issues. His client roster reads like a who’s who of business in New Jersey including leading companies in the pharmaceutical, insurance, hospital and maritime industries.

Prior to joining Princeton Public Affairs Group, Mr. Gaburo perfected his lobbying expertise while a partner at Hodes, Shaw, Bodman and Gluck and at the GluckShaw Group. He also gained extensive national experience as a Field Director for Bailey Political Consulting, Inc., where he organized and mobilized support from business, industry and community groups in grassroots campaigns in New Jersey, Arizona and Louisiana. Additionally Mr. Gaburo has served as Executive Director of the New Jersey Soft Drink Association.

Mr. Gaburo served in elected office from 1996-1999 as a member of the Borough Council in his hometown of Raritan, New Jersey. He was elected council president in 1998 and has also served on the borough’s planning board and as Police and Fire Commissioner. Mr. Gaburo also served as a Somerset County Republican Committeeman and was the Raritan Borough Republican Municipal Chairman. He has also served as a political strategist for local, county, state and national campaigns for offices ranging from Freeholder, Sheriff, Mayor and United States Senate.

A former member of the Advantage Bank Advisory Board, Mr. Gaburo has also served as a gubernatorial appointee and received NJ Senate Confirmation as a member of the New Jersey Real Estate Appraiser Board and the 225th Anniversary of the American Revolutionary War Commission. Mr. Gaburo also serves as a Director on the board of the Commercial Fidelity Insurance Company, as well as an Advisory Board member of the Community First Bank and as a trustee on the Saint Peters Healthcare System Board. Mr. Gaburo has also appeared as a political commentator for Fox.

A graduate of the University of Delaware, Mr. Gaburo also attended the American Institute of Applied Politics in Washington, DC and the Eagleton Institute of Applied Politics at Rutgers University. He is a Leadership New Jersey Fellow, class of 2000 and resides in Montgomery Township, Somerset County with his wife Margaret and daughter Adele.

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Club Members Perform Spring Clean-Up of Early New Jersey Governor's Grave Site

State Senator Kip Bateman stopped by to lend a hand in the clean-up event.
On June 6th, about 20 members of the Hillsborough Republican Club braved the 90 degree plus temperatures and storm threats to conduct a spring clean-up of the Dumont Burial Ground on River Road in Hillsborough. State Senator Kip Bateman also came out to support the event.

The burial site has been in neglect for many years and is the burial place of Peter Dumont Vroom, twice Governor of New Jersey in the early 1800s.

The clean-up event is part of the Club’s civic program, focusing on giving back to the community. The Club also presents two $500.00 scholarships each year to current graduates of Hillsborough High School, and participates in the Township’s Memorial Day wreath laying ceremonies at the Municipal Building.

Governor Vroom was born in Hillsborough in 1791. He attended the Somerville Academy and was graduated from Columbia College in New York City, in 1808.

He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1813, and opened his law practice in Hillsborough. He moved to Somerville in 1821 and was a member of the State General Assembly in 1826, 1827, and 1829.

Peter Vroom was elected Governor of New Jersey in 1829 and again in 1832.

He was also a commissioner to adjust the claims of the Choctaw Indians, served in the Twenty-Sixth Congress in Washington, and was appointed chief justice of the supreme court of New Jersey in 1853, but he declined the appointment. He was then appointed Minister to Prussia in 1853, and served until 1857.

Governor Vroom died in Trenton in 1873 and was buried in the Dumont Burial Site in Hillsborough near what is now Duke Farms. He is the only former New Jersey Governor that was born, lived, and is buried in Hillsborough.

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Hillsborough Republican Club Awards Two $500 Scholarships

For the third consecutive year, the Hillsborough Republican Club presented two $500 scholarships to Hillsborough High School graduates who will be furthering their education at a college or university.

The scholarships were presented to one male and one female graduate at the High School’s awards night on June 10, 2010. The recipients are Nicholas Faenza and Kimberly Ryan.

As in the past, applicants had to demonstrate community involvement and were required to write an essay on a subject selected by the Club. The 2010 subject was "My Pledge for One Act of Patriotism to Support and Honor My Country." All entries were blind reviewed by a special panel of judges.

The Club would like to thank Toni Natale for her generous gift toward the Scholarship Fund in memory of her late husband Tony. Tony was a long time resident of Hillsborough, an active member of the community, and an active member of the Hillsborough Republican Club.

The night we waved goodbye to America...our last best hope on Earth

Below is an interesting newspaper article by Peter Hitchens from the London Sunday Mail on November 9, 2008, just a few days after Barack Obama was elected President.

Anyone would think we had just elected a hip, skinny and youthful replacement for God, with a plan to modernise Heaven and Hell – or that at the very least John Lennon had come back from the dead.

The swooning frenzy over the choice of Barack Obama as President of the United States must be one of the most absurd waves of self-deception and swirling fantasy ever to sweep through an advanced civilisation. At least Mandela-worship – its nearest equivalent – is focused on a man who actually did something.

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I really don’t see how the Obama devotees can ever in future mock the Moonies, the Scientologists or people who claim to have been abducted in flying saucers. This is a cult like the one which grew up around Princess Diana, bereft of reason and hostile to facts.

It already has all the signs of such a thing. The newspapers which recorded Obama’s victory have become valuable relics. You may buy Obama picture books and Obama calendars and if there isn’t yet a children’s picture version of his story, there soon will be.

Proper books, recording his sordid associates, his cowardly voting record, his astonishingly militant commitment to unrestricted abortion and his blundering trip to Africa, are little-read and hard to find.

If you can believe that this undistinguished and conventionally Left-wing machine politician is a sort of secular saviour, then you can believe anything. He plainly doesn’t believe it himself. His cliche-stuffed, PC clunker of an acceptance speech suffered badly from nerves. It was what you would expect from someone who knew he’d promised too much and that from now on the easy bit was over.

He needn’t worry too much. From now on, the rough boys and girls of America’s Democratic Party apparatus, many recycled from Bill Clinton’s stained and crumpled entourage, will crowd round him, to collect the rich spoils of his victory and also tell him what to do, which is what he is used to.

Just look at his sermon by the shores of Lake Michigan. He really did talk about a ‘new dawn’, and a ‘timeless creed’ (which was ‘yes, we can’). He proclaimed that ‘change has come’. He revealed that, despite having edited the Harvard Law Review, he doesn’t know what ‘enormity’ means. He reached depths of oratorical drivel never even plumbed by our own Mr Blair, burbling about putting our hands on the arc of history (or was it the ark of history?) and bending it once more toward the hope of a better day (Don’t try this at home).

I am not making this up. No wonder that awful old hack Jesse Jackson sobbed as he watched. How he must wish he, too, could get away with this sort of stuff.

And it was interesting how the President-elect failed to lift his admiring audience by repeated – but rather hesitant – invocations of the brainless slogan he was forced by his minders to adopt against his will – ‘Yes, we can’. They were supposed to thunder ‘Yes, we can!’ back at him, but they just wouldn’t join in. No wonder. Yes we can what exactly? Go home and keep a close eye on the tax rate, is my advice. He’d have been better off bursting into ‘I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony’ which contains roughly the same message and might have attracted some valuable commercial sponsorship.

Perhaps, being a Chicago crowd, they knew some of the things that 52.5 per cent of America prefers not to know. They know Obama is the obedient servant of one of the most squalid and unshakeable political machines in America. They know that one of his alarmingly close associates, a state-subsidised slum landlord called Tony Rezko, has been convicted on fraud and corruption charges.

They also know the US is just as segregated as it was before Martin Luther King – in schools, streets, neighbourhoods, holidays, even in its TV-watching habits and its choice of fast-food joint. The difference is that it is now done by unspoken agreement rather than by law.

If Mr Obama’s election had threatened any of that, his feel-good white supporters would have scuttled off and voted for John McCain, or practically anyone. But it doesn’t. Mr Obama, thanks mainly to the now-departed grandmother he alternately praised as a saint and denounced as a racial bigot, has the huge advantages of an expensive private education. He did not have to grow up in the badlands of useless schools, shattered families and gangs which are the lot of so many young black men of his generation.

If the nonsensical claims made for this election were true, then every positive discrimination programme aimed at helping black people into jobs they otherwise wouldn’t get should be abandoned forthwith. Nothing of the kind will happen. On the contrary, there will probably be more of them.

And if those who voted for Obama were all proving their anti-racist nobility, that presumably means that those many millions who didn’t vote for him were proving themselves to be hopeless bigots. This is obviously untrue.

I was in Washington DC the night of the election. America’s beautiful capital has a sad secret. It is perhaps the most racially divided city in the world, with 15th Street – which runs due north from the White House – the unofficial frontier between black and white. But, like so much of America, it also now has a new division, and one which is in many ways much more important. I had attended an election-night party in a smart and liberal white area, but was staying the night less than a mile away on the edge of a suburb where Spanish is spoken as much as English, plus a smattering of tongues from such places as Ethiopia, Somalia and Afghanistan.

As I walked, I crossed another of Washington’s secret frontiers. There had been a few white people blowing car horns and shouting, as the result became clear. But among the Mexicans, Salvadorans and the other Third World nationalities, there was something like ecstasy.

They grasped the real significance of this moment. They knew it meant that America had finally switched sides in a global cultural war. Forget the Cold War, or even the Iraq War. The United States, having for the most part a deeply conservative people, had until now just about stood out against many of the mistakes which have ruined so much of the rest of the world.

Suspicious of welfare addiction, feeble justice and high taxes, totally committed to preserving its own national sovereignty, unabashedly Christian in a world part secular and part Muslim, suspicious of the Great Global Warming panic, it was unique.

These strengths had been fading for some time, mainly due to poorly controlled mass immigration and to the march of political correctness. They had also been weakened by the failure of America’s conservative party – the Republicans – to fight on the cultural and moral fronts.

They preferred to posture on the world stage. Scared of confronting Left-wing teachers and sexual revolutionaries at home, they could order soldiers to be brave on their behalf in far-off deserts. And now the US, like Britain before it, has begun the long slow descent into the Third World. How sad. Where now is our last best hope on Earth.?

Are You Happy with What's Going on in Washington?

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Are you concerned that Senators appear to be "bought off" with no regard for us, the taxpayers? Do you think you are being well represented in Washington?

Contact your elected officials and let them know what you think. You can use the phone numbers and email links below...
Senator Frank Lautenberg - Email Senator Lautenberg or call him in Washington at 202-224-3224.

Senator Robert Menendez - Email Senator Menendez or call him in Washington at 202-224-4744.

Congressman Leonard Lance - Email Congressman Lance or call him in Washington at 202-225-5361.

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