Grassroots Campaigning

August 26, 2008 - 9:02am

PRESS RELEASE

Glading Campaigns Across District While Andrews & Norcross Schmooze in Denver

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 Makes 60-Mile Campaign Tour

By Dale Glading for Congress

Glading Makes 60-Mile Campaign Tour

Congressional candidate appears in
five towns and two counties
asking voters for their support in November

BARRINGTON – Dale Glading, candidate for U.S. Congress in New Jersey’s 1st District, campaigned extensively throughout the district today, making a 60-mile campaign tour that stopped in five towns and two counties.

First, Glading addressed supporters in Sewell at the Choices of the Heart walk-a-thon in Washington Lake Park.

“Our society will be judged by future generations based on how we cared for the most vulnerable among us – children, the elderly, and the unborn,” Glading told the crowd of more than 200. “It is time we had a representative in Congress with a genuine moral compass, someone who is not afraid to do the right thing and make the tough decisions.”

Next, Glading attended the Haddonfield and Collingswood Farmer’s Markets where he met with hundreds of voters, asking for their input on the issues most important to them in this year’s campaign.

“The message I have heard most frequently on the campaign trail is this: taxes are too high, and the politicians just don’t care,” Glading said later. “The voters of the 1st District, regardless of party, are disgusted with the machine politicians like Camille Andrews who are out of touch with the average person.”

Finally, Glading visited Berlin Day in Berlin Borough and a Knights of Columbus event in Laurel Springs. Like in Haddonfield and Collingswood, Glading met with hundreds of voters and asked for their support in November.

“I believe in citizen representatives, not career politicians,” Glading told one voter. “I know what it's like to try to make ends meet with three kids and two college tuitions. It's hard for someone like Camille Andrews, whose tax returns reported over $450,000 in income last year, to relate to real people. But I can, and I promise to represent you and your interests in Washington.”