A convention cartoon by Jimmy Margulies, editorial cartoonist for The Record.: (www.northjersey.com)Several cartoonists from throughout the country converged upon the Democratic National Convention last week in Denver, and many more will attend this week's Republican National Convention in Minneapolis.

But their New Jersey comrades won't be joining them.

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.”