Van Wagner’s Weekly Message
In the countdown weeks to Election Day 2018, Montclair Republicans are focused on grassroots efforts.
To join the Get Out The Vote (GOTV) team with right-of-center neighbors and friends in Montclair, especially the 11th Congressional District, email montclairrepublicans@gmail.com to be placed on our ‘Weekly Van Wagner’ newsletter email list for the latest meetings, efforts, technology, tee-shirts, pizza and fun.
John Van Wagner, President Montclair Republican Club
GAME ON: NJ’S 11th Congressional District
After Labor Day the gloves will come off in the battle for NJ-11. 
HIS Daughter WILL Vote For Him
Libertarian Murray Sabrin to Appear July 26 in Montclair; Running for U.S. Senate from New Jersey
Sixty nine years ago a two-year-old boy stepped on to the shores of his newly adopted
U.S. Senate Candidate (Libertarian) Murray Sabrin
country with his parents and older brother, left hopelessness and inhumanity behind, and embarked on a marvelous journey of freedom and renewal.
Get In Summer’s Game: March on July 4 (And More)
John Van Wagner, Club President
It’s beach time, lake time, baseball time, and generally time for kicking back.
NJ 11 Congressional Candidate Jay Webber With Two of His Four Daughters
So, in your beach bag, be sure to pack a copy of Newt Gingrich’s “Trump’s America“. It might just propel you out of the waves and into the ranks of active campaigners and donors, particularly for Jay Webber in the crucial race for NJ-11.
Keep a Conservative 11th: Meet Jay Webber, 11th CD Candidate on Apr. 5, 7 pm in Montclair
New Jersey State Assemblyman Jay Webber (R-26), candidate for U.S. Congress in NJ’s 11th Congressional District (a seat currently held by Rodney Frelinghuysen), will visit with and address members and guests of the Montclair Republican Club on Thursday, April 5, 7 pm at Greek Taverna, Montclair.
Purchase your tickets for a sociable and delicious dinner meeting at the links below (special student rate available), or email montclairrepublicans@gmail.com with your reservation: send your check, postmarked by March 29, to Montclair Republicans, 12 Marquette Road, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 ($35/pp; $15/student rate (11-18) when accompanied by a paying parent).
Jay Webber, 46, a resident of Morris Plains, is a Clifton native, father of 7, Johns Hopkins and Harvard Law School grad. In private law practice in Whippany, he has served in the New Jersey State Assembly since 2008. He is a member of the Reagan Ranch Board of Governors and is founder of New Jersey Reagan Day, the Garden State’s celebratory gathering of conservatives. Read more about Jay Webber HERE.
Jay Webber is known as a conservative voice in the New Jersey State Assembly. Find a ten-year history of video presentations to review HERE.
Listen to a 4-minute radio interview / video on why Jay Webber is running for Congress HERE.
Read nj.com’s recent story on Jay Webber HERE, and Morris County Young Republican’s Jordan Chester’s endorsement of Jay Webber HERE.
Learn more about New Jersey’s 11th U.S. Congresssional District HERE.
We need to put our best foot forward up here as Republicans, and I think I’m the candidate who can keep this seat and keep the progress that we’re making in the country. – NJ Assemblyman & U.S. Congressional Candidate Jay Webber
Purchase 1 Adult ticket ($35) HERE
Purchase 2 Adult tickets ($70) HERE
Purchase 1 Youth ticket ($15, ages 11-18) HERE. Must be accompanied by a paying parent.
Greek Taverna’s family-style dinner is delicious, authentic, and plentiful. Looking forward to seeing New Jersey Republicans, Independents, and sociable old and new friends from across the political spectrum on April 5.
Victims of Communism: “We Put An End To Political Correctness,” Part 2
Republicans and other sociable guests are invited to attend:
On Thursday, Feb. 22, 7 pm in Montclair, join Murray Bessette, PhD, Director of Academic Programs of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC), a Washington, DC-based educational and human rights nonprofit foundation devoted to commemorating the more than 100 million victims of communism around the world and to the freedom of those still living under totalitarian regimes, for a sociable dinner and illuminating presentation. Location: Greek Taverna, 292 Bloomfield Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey.
Purchase your dinner & discussion tickets using Paypal (or credit card) below. Student rate available for youth aged 12-18 when accompanied by parent. RSVP required. Or, email montclairrepublicans@gmail.com with your RSVP and send your check (postmarked by February 14, 2018) for $35 (1 guest), $70 (2 guests), $15 (youth) to Montclair Republican Club, 12 Marquette Road, Montclair, NJ 07043.
Click HERE for 1 ADULT TICKET ($35)
CLICK HERE for 2 ADULT TICKETS ($70)
CLICK HERE for 1 YOUTH TICKET ($15, youth aged 12 – 18, when accompanied by a paying adult).
The ‘People’s Republic of Montclair,’ as Star-Ledger editorial page editor and Montclair resident Tom Moran nicknamed our prominent community, has had a steady, growing socialist/communist presence or connection for generations. We live side by side, joke on social media, but…is it time for the romance language of communism — making everyone equal in some sort of Utopia (in our case, a ‘perfect’ Montclair?) — to be deconstructed? To do so would mark yet another end to political correctness. This conversation is especially important for young adults.
Communism promises to make everyone equal, but delivers radical inequality. Every time it’s tried, it ends in economic collapse or a police state. From the famines, purges, and gulags of Soviet Russia to Mao’s Great Leap Forward and the Killing Fields of the Khmer Rouge—from the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre to the Castro regime’s 2012 murder of Oswaldo Payá—communists have killed more than 100 million people. Countless more suffered and suffer still. – VOC Memorial Foundation
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“We Put An End To Political Correctness” Part 1
Montclair Republicans kick off 2018 with two very important meetings that each span subjects from immediately local to broadly global. We hope you’ll join in.
Republicans and other sociable guests are invited to attend:
January 18, Thursday, 7 pm at Greek Taverna (Montclair):
STEVE ROGERS, Manager for New Jersey Trump 2020
He’s a regular guy, and our neighbor. Steve Rogers of Nutley is the New Jersey manager for Trump 2020, and a familiar face to Montclair Republicans. Join in a sociable dinner on Thursday, January 18, 7 pm at Montclair’s Greek Taverna to hear President Trump’s message through the perspective of Rogers‘ boots-on-the-ground operation. Steve was one of the few pundits who predicted a Trump presidential win in 2016. ‘We put an end to political correctness,’ he said following Trump’s 2016 election, as New Jersey campaign manager. Purchase your dinner & discussion tickets using Paypal (or credit card) below. Student rate available for Montclair resident youth aged 12-18 when accompanied by parent. RSVP required. Or, email montclairrepublicans@gmail.com and send your check (postmarked by January 10) for $35 (1 guest), $70 (2 guests), $15 (youth) to Montclair Republican Club, 12 Marquette Road, Montclair, NJ 07043.
January 18 Dinner & Presentation: Click below to purchase by Paypal/credit card:
1 Adult Dinner Ticket $35 2 Adult Dinner Tickets $70 1 Youth (12-18) Ticket $15
SAVE THE DATE: February 22, Thursday, 7 pm at Greek Taverna (Montclair):
MURRAY BESSETTE, PhD, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
Mark Your Calendar: On Thursday, Feb. 22, 7 pm join Murray Bessette, PhD, Director of Academic Programs of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC), a Washington, DC-based educational and human rights nonprofit foundation devoted to commemorating the more than 100 million victims of communism around the world and to the freedom of those still living under totalitarian regimes, for yet another Montclair Republican Club very sociable dinner and very illuminating presentation.
Meet Healthcare Policy Expert Alieta Eck, MD on Nov. 2, 7 pm in Montclair
Aleita Eck, MD
Get ready to focus on the November 7 election by coming together with your Republican, conservative, thoughtful independent, libertarian & open-minded neighbors for a fascinating speaker, New Jersey’s Dr. Alieta Eck. Dr. Eck ran for U.S. Congress in 2014 in the 12th Congressional District (Central New Jersey) and for U.S. Senate in 2013.
Dr. Eck will join in Montclair Republican Club’s traditional, sociable dinner meeting on Thursday, Nov. 2, 7 pm at Greek Taverna. An alternative thinker who has created a free, private medical clinic in Piscataway, Dr. Eck has long been involved in heath care reform and believes that the government is a poor provider of medical care.
Montclair Republicans Meet & Eat at Greek Taverna: Thurs, Nov 2, 7 pm
Purchase your dinner tickets ($35/pp) here using Paypal or credit card, or email montclairrepublicans@gmail.com to reserve and pay at the door. RSVP required.
1 TICKET: CLICK HERE ($35)
2 TICKETS: CLICK HERE ($70)
YOUNG ADULT TICKET ($15, age 18 & below): CLICK HERE
Some of Dr. Eck’s recent, relevant blog posts are: Caution: Is Health Care a Right?, The Tangled Webs of Insurance Networks, and Obamacare Subsidies Rob the Middle Class.
With two important elections less than a week following, the November 2 Montclair Republican Club meeting will be a convivial opportunity to catch up with family and community members to discuss New Jersey’s gubernatorial election and Assembly District 34 election, featuring Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno and newcomer Nick Surgent, respectively, and the two ballot questions.
Join Dr. Eck for a terrific evening, as usual, in the company of Montclair Republicans.
ELECTION 2017: Kim & Carlos, Men & Women…A Message from John Van Wagner
Montclair Republican Club President John Van Wagner
Hello, all, I hope everyone had a terrific summer.
insights of some great people.
member Maureen Edelson, the nearly 10,000 active, female Republican voters from Newark to Fairfield can now more easily network to impact our regional political, governance and social landscape. ‘LIKE’ the club’s Facebook page, come out on the 26th, and meet like-minded women. Register at THIS LINK or RSVP to ecnjrw@gmail.com with your name, address, phone number and comments/questions. (New Montclair members to the County organization, a chapter of the National Federation of Republican Women, can also join Maureen’s informal, private Montclair Conservative & Republican Women’s Club at no additional fee.)
Meet Montclair’s InSurgent: Nick Surgent, 34th Assembly District Candidate (Thurs August 3 7:30 PM)
Nick Surgent, center, at Montclair’s Independence Day Parade (2017)
Become informed about your local political choices in the upcoming November election.
Join in an informal, sociable gathering with New Jersey Assembly candidate Nick Surgent on Thursday, August 3, 7:30 pm at a private home in Montclair.
The 34th Assembly District includes all of Montclair, Clifton, Orange and East Orange. Invite your friends, family & acquaintances from any of those communities, too.
Mr. Surgent, a Clifton native, is a young finance professional who embodies a generationally leading-edge mindset, skills and concerns. If you are interested in what type of future New Jersey can or will offer your children and grandchildren, come out to hear his perspectives.
RSVP montclairrepublicans@gmail.com.
