Dan Gallic

Two of Joseph Pennacchio’s top staffers have left the campaign.  Yesterday was the last day for communications director Chris Pordon and Sean DiSomma, the political and field director.  Pennacchio’s campaign manager, Dan Gallic, says that the two operatives were only signed on through the convention. 

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Republican strategist Dan Gallic, who is running Joe Pennacchio’s campaign for U.S. Senate, was the subject of a Trentonian story that he posted a “racially charged version of the ant-and-the-grasshopper parable” political cartoon on a conservative website.  Gallic is also the Robbinsville Economic Development Coordinator.

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Dan Gallic, who is more-or-less running his friend Joe Pennacchio’s not-yet-official U.S. Senate campaign, turns 40 next week. Compared to other campaign workers, that makes him a pretty old hand in this business.

“I’m officially old,” said Gallic, who also blogs for the Web site Conservatives With Attitude. “That’s the number one issue why I’m not going to necessarily step up to the plate for being a campaign manager, but in the same breath I can say I’m going to do everything I can to help Joe.

Gallic is older than his two likely behind-the-scenes opponents in the upcoming senate race, but not by that much. Mark Duffy, who was just tapped to manage Republican Anne Evans Estabrook’s campaign, is 34, while Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s campaign manager, Brendan Gill, is 33. While all three have considerable political experience, none has taken the lead role in a statewide campaign until now. Read More >

Republican insiders seem a bit underwhelmed by their choice of candidates to challenge Democratic U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg next year – neither Anne Evans Estabrook, a millionaire developer making her first bid for public office, or Joseph Pennacchio, a dentist and four-term Assemblyman who won a State Senate seat last month, seem to have been successful in convincing Republicans that they can beat Lautenberg next year. 

“It's the choice between Forrester-Lite and Diet Schundler,” one Republican County Chairman told PolitickerNJ.com.

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Tim Gallic, a Summit High School science teacher and the brother of GOP political consultant Dan Gallic, is mulling a bid for the Republican nomination for Congress in the 7th district.

Gallic joins Senate Minority Leader Leonard Lance, former congressional aide Kate Whitman, Assemblyman Peter Biondi, former Summit Councilwoman Kelly Hatfield, Scotch Plains Mayor Martin Marks, former Hillsborough Deputy Mayor Chris Venis, Hunterdon County Freeholder-elect Will Mennen, Warren Township Mayor Victor Sordillo, and conservative activist and former professional wrestler Michael Illions as potential candidates for Mike Ferguson’s House seat.

"Currently there is no announced candidate that represents the true base of the Republican Party. Each of the announced candidates holds positions that run counter the Republican Party platform. I'm not sure why New Jersey Republicans continue to raise up leaders that have more in common with the Democrat Party than their own party," Gallic said.

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