Thank you for supporting my campaign for Governor of New Jersey this spring. I sincerely appreciate your confidence in my candidacy for our state’s highest elective office.
On June 2, 2009, Republican voters selected another candidate as their nominee for Governor of New Jersey. I have conveyed my congratulations to him and offered to help however I can to advance the GOP’s prospects for success in this fall’s general election.
Although I did not receive my party’s nomination for Governor this year, I remain deeply grateful for the constant support and encouragement my campaign received from so many Republicans throughout New Jersey. My thanks go out, too, to the thousands of voters who saw fit to endorse my candidacy with their ballots. Running for Governor was an outstanding experience and one on which I will always look back with pride.
Lincoln once observed that ‘a house divided against itself cannot stand. Regardless of whom we supported in the recent primary election, I call upon all of my fellow Republicans to lay aside our differences and work for a better New Jersey by replacing the current administration in Trenton. We should remind our fellow citizens that democracy is not a spectator sport and that all of us, joining together, have both the power and solemn duty to restore our state’s greatness.
Once again, thanks for everything you did to aid my candidacy.
May God bless you, New Jersey, and America!