Letter from Steve Lonegan

Dear Friend,

Last week I wrote you to tell you about Alan Bateman and his campaign for Congress against thirty-year incumbent Chris Smith. Many of you wrote me back to tell me you’ll be joining me on March 20^th at Alan’s fundraising event.

Some of you also wrote back to ask for more about Congressman Smith’s 30-year record of getting more and more liberal. Here’s some more facts about Congressman Smith’s very liberal record...

Congressman Smith is one of only two Republicans to co-sponsor the so-called “Card Check” bill that would replace secret union elections with a process where a union would be certified if a majority of employees signed a union card.

Under the Smith Bill (also sponsored by pro-Cap and Trade New Jersey “Republican” Frank LoBiondo), union thugs would be able to use threats and intimidation to get workers to create unions in cases where they can’t win a fair union election.

It’s something you would expect Democrats to support -- BUT NOT A REPUBLICAN FROM A SAFE REPUBLICAN SEAT!

But that’s what Chris Smith is doing -- and just another reason why it’s time for him to go! Alan Bateman opposes “Card Check” and will fight this bill in Congress. He deserves your support.

There’s more...

Chris Smith has been Big Labor’s #1 “Republican” ally. And one of the unions that really likes Smith is the SEIU -- the Service Employees International Union.

Does that name ring a bell?

They’re the union thugs in Purple Shirts who’ve been trying to disrupt “Tea Party” meetings. They’re the left-wing zealots leading the fight for President Obama’s government-run Socialized Medicine scheme.

Take a look at their website to see just how radical they are (Like Smith, they also support Amnesty for Illegal Aliens too!).

This group has given Chris Smith AN UNBELIEVABLE $32,500 in campaign contributions

 

since 2000!

Now why would a left-wing Socialist Labor Union support a “Republican” Congressman?

Simple. The Fourth Congressional District that Smith “represents” in Washington is a safe Republican seat, made even more so in the 2002 redistricting that took out parts of Trenton and added even more of Monmouth and Ocean Counties.

The unions know that too. They know they’ll never elect a Democrat in this seat, so with Smith they have the next best thing...and that’s why he’s the number one GOP recipient of SEIU campaign contributions.

If the left-wing SEIU is with him, why are you?

Alan Bateman opposes the radical SEIU agenda in Washington, and unlike Chris Smith, who supports it, Alan Bateman will fight that extremist liberal gang and add one vote to the conservative side, not the Nancy Pelosi-Barack Obama side.

Alan Bateman is a man of principle and solid conservative. He’s shown courage by running against Congressman Smith. Like me, he believes that a safe Republican House District should be represented in Congress by a solid conservative -- not a left-wing pro-union, environmental extremist liberal -- and that’s who Chris Smith has become.

It’s time for a change in Congress -- time for a conservative change. If you cannot contribute $250 or more to buy a ticket to the March 20^th fundraising event I will be holding for Alan, please give something. Whether it is $20, $50 or $100 -- or even $10. Please do something. I can’t think of another candidate running anywhere in New Jersey -- or in the nation for that matter -- who deserves your financial support more than Alan. Please help him win.

Thanks for reading and I hope to see you on March 20^th.

On to Victory!

Mayor Steve Lonegan