Glading Campaigns Across District
While Andrews & Norcross Schmooze in Denver

Citizen representative running for Congress
meets voters in all three counties, more than 10 towns

BARRINGTON – Dale Glading, candidate for U.S. Congress in New Jersey’s 1st District, is spending the week of the Democrats’ national convention in Denver campaigning throughout the district and meeting voters.

Glading has been running an aggressive grassroots campaign since January, meeting voters and making a personal connection the way our leaders did before highly paid consultants and television advertising.

“I want to meet as many voters as I can, face to face,” Glading said. “I don’t believe in running a campaign from a distance, allowing consultants to craft a made-for-TV message. I am a citizen representative, not a career politician, and I am going to run my campaign the way campaigns were meant to be run.”

The same, however, cannot be said for Rob Andrews and Don Norcross. They are busy rubbing elbows in Denver, wining and dining with the elite that have corrupted Washington and led our country down the wrong path.

In contrast with career politicians Andrews and Norcross, Glading is spending the week of the convention by meeting voters in all three counties of the 1st District and appearing in more than 10 towns. He campaigned on Sunday night in Sewell and Wenonah, Monday night in Palmyra, and will be visiting Winslow Township, Voorhees, Maple Shade, and other towns later in the week.

“The vast majority of voters I have met thus far on the campaign trail have been independents, the voters who ultimately determine who will be elected the next congressman from our district,” Glading added. “I have had an overwhelmingly positive response to my message of lower taxes and bringing real reform to Washington.”

“The fact is that you can’t send the same people from the same party and the same political machine down to Washington and expect anything to change,” Glading concluded. “The voters of the 1st District realize that in order to get the change they so desperately desire, they need to make a change in the people they send to represent them. That’s why we’re going to make history on November 4.”

Glading Announces Campaign Theme:
The People’s House is Not For Sale

Independent, unbossed congressional candidate
announces three-point pledge

BARRINGTON – Dale Glading, candidate for U.S. Congress in New Jersey’s 1st District, announced today his campaign theme for the general election race: “The People’s House is Not For Sale.” A three-point pledge accompanied Glading’s new campaign theme, outlined below.

“For too long, the career politicians and the Norcross machine have been selling the 1st District seat in Congress to the highest bidder,” Glading said. “It’s time to put a stop to pay-to-play politics, where party bosses trade campaign contributions for access to power.”

The three points of Glading’s reform pledge are:

(1) End pay-to-play and quid pro quo politics
It is time to put a stop to the corrupt earmark system in Congress. Career politicians trade federal handouts – in other words, our taxpayer dollars – to big corporations in exchange for huge campaign contributions. Dale Glading pledges not to request any federal earmarks in Congress. We cannot justify allowing career politicians to use our money to sell their office to big corporate donors.

(2) Reform the campaign finance system
The Norcross machine has sold the 1st Congressional District seat to the highest bidder. Financiers who wish to get in the good graces of Boss Norcross write big campaign checks to his candidates in order to win his favor. Dale Glading pledges to support federal campaign spending limits, indexed to inflation, that limit the ability of party bosses and financiers to trade campaign contributions for access to power.

(3) Implement congressional term limits
The Founding Fathers never intended for service in Congress to be a career. New Jersey is represented by a senator who has spent 24 years in Washington, and the 1st Congressional District’s most recent representative has spent 19 years there – and we, the taxpayers, have paid their salaries. Dale Glading pledges to serve no more than six terms (12 years) in Congress.

“I am running for Congress to represent the people of the 1st District, not the party bosses or the big-money financiers,” Glading concluded. “I will never sell out to the big corporations or the special interest lobbyists. It's time the 1st District had a congressman who is unbossed and unbought.”

Boss Norcross Celebrates 100 Days
of Disenfranchising Democrats

Rob Andrews declared for Senate 100 days ago;
Boss Norcross’s machine yet to coronate candidate

BARRINGTON – Dale Glading, candidate for U.S. Congress in New Jersey’s 1st District, issued a statement today criticizing George Norcross and his political machine for 100 days of delay, obstruction, and undemocratic conduct.

“It's been 100 days since Rob Andrews declared his intentions to run against Frank Lautenberg for the U.S. Senate,” Glading began. “That’s more than enough time to select a replacement candidate, which is exactly what Democrats were supposed to have done in the primary on June 3.”

“However, Camille Andrews says she takes her marching orders from Boss Norcross and not from the people she supposedly wants to represent,” Glading continued. “That means Democrats have been disenfranchised, and the entire election process has been defrauded.”

“It’s about time that someone reminded the career politicians and their pay-to-play party bosses that the 1st Congressional District doesn't belong to them, it belongs to the people,” Glading added. “I am running to serve the people of the district. My opponent du jour puts her political party above the people and their best interests.”

“Enough is enough,” Glading concluded. “The people of our district deserve to be treated better instead of being taken for granted by arrogant bureaucrats and lifelong politicians.”