TRENTON -- Republican Party activist Dan Gallic today announced he is forming an organization to draft former Bogota Mayor and Americans for Prosperity state executive director Steve Lonegan to run for Governor against Jon Corzine in 2009.
“Our goal is to create a situation where should Steve decide to run, there will be a grass-roots and finance organization already in place to secure him the Republican nomination,” Gallic said.
“Steve Lonegan’s conservative leadership is the reason he is the Republican Party’s premier leader when so many other ‘leaders’ have been asleep at the wheel,” Gallic said. “No one in New Jersey has the record of accomplishment Steve Lonegan has built: from stopping McGreevey’s gasoline tax hike to defeating two ballot questions last November and the Corzine borrowing and toll hike scheme last Spring,” he noted.
Gallic added that “Steve Lonegan’s fight against state debt is legendary and his leadership in taking on the Corzine $3.9 Billion Bond Boondoggle and the new Corzine COAH low income housing regulations are just more reasons why he is the man for the job.”
“As Mayor he virtually froze municipal spending and debt during his twelve years in office and kept municipal taxes far below the inflation rate,” Gallic noted. “In the time Steve froze municipal spending, the state’s budget literally doubled. That’s a fact.”
He said that Lonegan’s strong conservative views will unite a party sorely in need of new and unifying leadership.
“New Jersey Republicans continue to lose election after election because we run the same old gang of weak-kneed wimpy moderates who believe in nothing and are afraid to throw a punch,” Gallic said. “Steve Lonegan is the antithesis of the losing Republican. He knows how to play the game. Neither the Democrats nor Corzine’s money intimidates him. To Steve, defeat is not an option and that resonates with the millions of overtaxed New Jersey voters ready to give up on our state but ready to give our state one more chance.”
Gallic said he will be announcing within a few weeks a coalition of Republican leaders in all of the state’s 21 counties as well as a direct mail fundraising appeal to people who have supported Steve and other conservatives in the past. Persons interested in joining the committee should visit the website www.draftlonegan.com
Be sure to read Hank Butehorn's post at Conservatives with Attitude about Lonegan and the Draft Committee.
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