US Senate Candidate Brian Goldberg at Lakewood Republican Club

and then as i was saying when you factor in all the mislabeling and and social security that's counted as a revenue as opposed to what i would call a forced loan uh the deficit is a lot larger than what it appears to be and our debt we filled with that ceiling so many times and we're really we're really not doing well physically but typically people get into office and and it's hard for them to follow through because they're too political but fortunately here we have a candidate which i feel is one of one of his strong points is that he's he's um he's a newcomer a virtual newcomer to politics and he's not not the type to doesn't fit the mold of a typical politician he's someone who cares um like me some people will say you know yes like when i got in i was i was um you know i didn't have much of a political background and i try to keep it as uh you know try to keep myself grounded as much as possible and a current candidate is uh who has been endorsed by 10 out of 14 counties in in new jersey he is very grounded and we hope he stays that way and it's my honor to introduce welcome to the podium because there's no microphone here mr brian goldberg i'm good actually yeah you can stand standing front or it's screwing up your whatever you're right okay hi everyone so as you heard i'm brian goldberg and i'm running for the united states senate uh i'm going to tell you a little bit about myself tonight and then we'll talk a little bit about why we need to make cory booker one and done and then i'll tell you how we're going to do that right it's a little bit about myself i was born in brooklyn i grew up in there you go brooklyn i grew up in monmouth county in marlborough i went to freehold high school and then went across the entire country i went to college at ucla which is interesting by the way is a little weird side note cory booker went to stanford so in the fall we're going to have a pac-12 battle going on in new jersey so and i got my degree in computer science and engineering moved back to new jersey and wound up in west orange basically i looked at a map i was working here i said what's in the area and wound up saying west orange is a nice place to live and that's how i wound up living in west orange i've been there now for about 16 years i've served on the essex county committee for the past 10 years and i think it's a funny story how i actually got on the county committee i got my sample ballot in the mail and there was no one listed on the county committee line so i called up the county chair at the time state senator o'toole and i said all right i don't even know what this is but i want to do it so how do i get my name on there how do i do this he said oh no problem next week you go to the polls you write yourself in okay so next tuesday i went to the polls i write myself in and i go home and so wednesday morning i call up santa roto and i said all right i wrote myself in now what he said you won i won i'm on the county committee um what does that mean go to a meeting you gotta go to a meeting on monday then on tuesday you go to another one and we'll take it from there great four years later i got my name on the ballot i went some of you i know are on your county committee i did the door-to-door i got my petition signed which in essex county it's a lot harder to find republicans to sign your petition than it is here in ocean county but i got my signatures i got on the bout and i've been reelected twice to the county committee i've been uh while i have never run before so certainly that's true i have been active in a behind the scenes capacity both obviously i mentioned on the county committee but i've worked on various campaigns i've been involved with several congressional campaigns where i learned all about fighting the democrats because see until 2010 i was in bill pascarella's congressional district so i learned all about fighting the uphill battle against him luckily in 2010 i was redistricted into rodney frelinghuysen's district which was a blessing because now i don't have to worry about fighting that battle but i've also worked on other campaigns i was the treasurer for a freeholder race um and i'll talk about that a little bit more in a minute but unfortunately in essex county we have a zero to nine freehold report so again i know i know about the uphill battle so that's a little bit about my background oh i'm sorry right now my day job was until a few months ago when i transitioned to running full-time uh my family's decorative concrete business right a lot of people think i might be a lawyer or something else no decorative concrete and the business covers the entire state of new jersey the five boroughs in new york city long island and eight counties in eastern pennsylvania so i'm used to running a large operation um covering a large territory traveling around the state of new jersey for this campaign is nothing new i think the definition of a statewide race is there was one night a month or so ago at 8 30 in the evening i was in hackensack at a young republicans event and the following morning at 8 a.m i was in salem county for their convention so if you know new jersey that's that's about as far apart as you can get so i know about that uh so now that's a little bit about me oh and i i'm sorry i managed to mention they'll be very mad at me if i don't i have two young daughters uh there's seven and ten one through ten on sunday so i have to get that right amber and haley okay so that's a little bit about me now do i really need to stand up here and tell you why we need to be cory booker anybody in the room questioning that so look i am proud to be an american i believe in american exceptionalism i want to restore a place of pride in the world and to do that we need to take back control of the senate that's where right now we have control of the house we've got to wait a couple years before we can get the presidency back but right now this year we can focus on trying to take control of the senate so people tell me you're crazy cory booker he's a celebrity he's just you know he was destined to become a united states senator what are you doing well you know how sometimes when an oracle gives a prophecy there's a little twist years ago the oracle prophesized that cory booker would rise to become a united states senator the twist it would only be for one year not even a regular term so we're going to make cory booker one and duck and how are we gonna do that i have a well three-part plan first and foremost you see me up here i'm pretty positive i'm energetic i consider myself relentlessly positive okay i go out on the campaign trail i talk about how the republican party is the party that believes in people we are the party of optimists we believe that if we give people opportunities they will find success the programs and policies that republicans promote are the programs and policies that give individuals opportunities for success now what's great about this message is that it does not alienate or turn away the independents and even disaffected democrats it draws them in because it's a positive message for years we've been branded the party of no and that doesn't work because no one wants to be associated with a negative party the people who run around saying no you can't do this and you can't do that so i talk about the positives and i came up with a three word message did anybody ever tell you to uh keep a little notepad next to your bedside so if you roll over in the middle night scribble something almost seven years ago i rolled over in the middle of the night and i wrote down three words empowerment not entitlement that's it that's what it's all about empowering individuals to succeed the job of the government should be to help the government to succeed not simply to help the government right and i know in lakewood this is this is definitely an issue that cuts cuts home right where we need the government sometimes to help people but it should be to help them to become independent from government services rather than become dependent for life so we take this positive message and we bring it out on the road now how do we do that we have the second part of the plan is outreach there are three three communities that have been traditionally underrepresented uh in the republican party first are minorities right now the governor if you look at what he did last year did very well minority communities because once you start talking with minorities you find out they tend to have conservative values but for whatever reason our party has neglected them i won't look i'm here lakewood i live 10 minutes from newark i'm going to camden in a couple of weeks i've been to trenton you take this message right into the urban centers right where people need to know that we care about them and we believe they'll succeed and we want to give them that opportunity for success so the second group are the youth i actually have a youth coordinator on my staff that's what our business cards actually say we have huge youth outreach the treasurer for the campaign is the chairman of the hudson county young republicans i kicked off my campaign at the morris county young republicans i went to the ocean county for young republicans a month or so ago had a fundraiser at the bowling alley right up from 70 over here and i've been to about three or four other young republican groups and was it last week for two weeks ago i spoke at the new jersey college republicans state convention and this weekend i'll be at the state young republican convention so you have a huge youth outreach why is that important well the youth haven't sold the bill of goods by the president and the democrats that there are all these dreams and things were going to be great and they're starting to realize that they can't get jobs they're being forced to buy health insurance under obamacare and it doesn't work so they're actually very very right to talk with us the third group are women now i see a fair number of women here today i'm very happy about that but if you look traditionally in the republican party we somehow been branded as having a war on women which i don't understand what happened in uh if you look at the results from the 2012 election a lot of people say that uh single moms for example voted in overwhelming droves for the democrats why they were told that the democratic party was going to provide economic safety and security well i can understand why that's important to a single mom but it's a short-term fix what we offer is long-term independence and that's much more critical so we talk about that when we're out on the campaign trip so now you've got the outreach you've got the good message and the third thing is down ballot campaigns now did i hear that there's a election going on on the local level this year yes okay i'll tell you again a little bit more about when i was the treasurer for that freeholder race see we have a zero to nine freeholder board but we came within 250 votes of actually picking up a seat finally what happened was one of the towns in the district lost two council races by about 600 votes had we held on to those council seats we would have picked up a free older race the lesson i learned was for me to win my race at the top of the ticket i need to help everybody down the ballot and i'm doing everything i can so far there's a fellow just up the road in brick who's running for uh town council john he's going to kill me for butchering his last name john shioko and he posted on facebook that he's having a campaign event i put it on my campaign page um you know the events that i can go to events where i can help i want to be there if i can be a draw as a u.s senate candidate i want to help the down ballot races because that's how we win you know there's going to be congressional races around the state where some places we think we're going to win in a landslide uh you know look at people like where i live ronnie frielenheisen or leonard lance they think they're going to win hands down but what's important is that we don't just win by two or three points we have to win by a landslide we need to win by 10 15 points because that extra republican turnout for them will bring out the votes for me as well and i know again bringing up the votes on the bottom up is how i went so that's a three-part plan and i'm not here tonight to beg for money but that's the last part i sort of need to add to the plan we all know hollywood cory booker has lots and lots of money so you can go to my campaign website and you can help us out in that way as well so we have a form that's going on around uh you guys can sign up to be in touch with the campaign i don't talk a lot about the issues when i'm standing up here uh because we have the flyer and i'd like more to like have a dynamic where you guys could ask me questions about where i stand on the issues you know my intro speech thank you very much i'm very much a fiscal conservative that's a lot of why i'm running i'm a businessman i come at it from that perspective so i guess right now i'd like to open it up if you guys have questions about the issues or anything else about what i've talked about um i'm happy to take it from here uh being that the senate does have a very big set in foreign policy more so than any congressman would and being that right now our foreign policy in many areas is is a disaster but most crucially right now with is with uh russia um how what's your view on the russia u.s tensions right now over ukraine and um if you are elected how would you i mean obviously you're not the president sure but what type of um proposals would you offer in the senate okay well so first of all i'm not the president or i wouldn't be the president but as a senator i'd be voting on good confirmations for people like chuck hagel and john kerry which i never would have confirmed so that's one of one step right there uh you know our foreign policy right now is a disaster because i don't think there is a foreign policy the president right now seems to jump from one crisis to the next with no plan with no long-term strategy or goals i mentioned before i believe in american exceptionalism i believe we need to have a strong influence around the world in order to make sure that when we have things like what are going on in uh in crimea we can exert influence instead of having putin just saying huh i don't care about the americans because they have absolutely no influence in this area so how do we get that again i don't call for things like cutting our military i believe in supporting our allies and look energy independence that's a huge thing that we can do both to help us economically and if you don't know one of the ways that putin was able to do what he's doing over there is he's holding europe hostage with energy yes okay one of the things that we can do in our country is we actually are almost at the point where we can be exporting things like natural gas we can turn europe into a customer of ours which then relieves some of that tension so this is these are the things that in the senate the policies that i would pursue that would help us under foreign policy what's your opinion on the keystone pipeline let's get it going jobs helps energy independence i have no idea why it's not done yet what do you think you can do to help that we can push for getting enough votes to push it through right now that's the problem it's being held up and not and not being enacted into law what are your ideas on immigration reform so my position on that starts with first of all securing the borders all right because securing the borders is not just an immigration policy it has to do with domestic terrorism as well right a lot of people focus on it as uh just keeping immigrants out but it's not just that we have to worry about the guys who come over here on a travel visa and never leave and the next thing we know they're doing things that are harming americans so first thing we need to do is lock down the borders make sure that they're secure make sure that people who come here we know who's coming here we have some sense of stability on top of that the second thing is then we focus on reforming the current immigration system so that people who are legally in their countries around the world trying to come here for all the wonderful reasons that america presents opportunity we could streamline that process so they get here faster and more efficient and so that we don't give an incentive for people to skirt the law and then after all the people that are doing it the right way get in then we can start to focus and worry about how we provide amnesty or a way for people who are here that believe in the american dream that's why they're here we find a way to help them stay here legally but what we don't do uh is for certain believe that we're gonna wave a magic wand and they're all gonna self-deport or some nonsense that we've heard in the past that's not gonna happen so the realistic plan is you have to focus your your limited resources first on the border then on uh getting people processed who are trying to come here legally and then we can work on uh folks who are already i have two questions mr senator no future what future please first is um what are your views on the arab israeli conflict in the middle east where do you stand on it what are your views on it and the second part to that question how do you feel about all the foreign aid that the u.s sends to to allies and even not allies but countries that we're trying to keep at bay overseas how do you feel about that type of spending okay so first of all if you didn't see i've got my little double flag pin on right here it's america in israel so i am very proud to say i stand with israel uh that there's no question about it the only democracy in the middle east uh it's they've been our long-term partner and ally ever since the state was uh founded and we need to support that pretty much on top of the fact a lot of their enemies are our enemies they're not just trying to attack israel they want to attack us so that's pretty easy to answer on that as far as this weird game where we uh provide funding to countries and then go around and try to defend ourselves from what those funds are buying right it's crazy and i agree and i would not support that and i would work against uh any any uh attempts to do that kind of like my second question is you mentioned that your motto is empowerment not entitlement right it's certainly a very interesting and deep and very thought-provoking motto the fact of the matter is though that new jersey led to iran of ranks last excuse me in federal dollars coming back from washington to the state right for every dollar we sent to washington we get 49 or 50 cents back i think you know some states out west get two dollars over two dollars for every dollar they say and if we had more money coming back to our state you know perhaps we would have tax relief to our citizens as our senator yes you're one of 100 in the u.s senate but as new jersey's representative in the u.s senate you know while you're working to empower the people across the land what plan do you have to make sure that new jersey gets more of its fair share what i believe is our fair share of federal dollars that we send to washington well so you're hitting the nail on the head i will be elected as new jersey senator so i'm going there to represent new jersey that's it i i also am aware that i heard the number was closer to 66 cents but that's still depressing and abysmal we're last we're last okay um so that is not sustainable and so when i want to cut down on government we just have to keep an eye on what are the things that we can do that help new jersey i'll give you an example i want to fight against obamacare because we all know it doesn't work it's unsustainable it's going to cause havoc throughout forever if it does not get stopped before it's fully inflated which luckily they keep delaying it because they're waking up and realizing the same thing one of the ways that i want to do that is focusing on healthcare innovation well a lot of the companies that do that type of work where it's whether it's creating new medical devices or new processes are based here in new jersey so that's ways that we can actually help a larger problem but also help new jersey at the same time other ways are to focus on making new jersey's economy more vibrant the policies that i promote the tax cutting the uh the the you know welfare to work type situations where you can't you don't just get a handout you need to be empowered to have long-term success apply those to new jersey and we have a lot more benefit going on in new jersey whether it's direct dollars coming from washington or not the end game is to make sure that new jersey is successful right that's correct thank you yeah of course i know you guys have more questions can you talk about um um what you would do to try to help the the fiscal situation at washington sure well one thing i talk about is i would never have voted to raise a debt ceiling when you max out your credit card you don't call the credit card company up and just say raise my limit please i need this last week but they said no there you go they said no you know that's not the way it works in the real world for real citizens and the government shouldn't be doing the same thing and i would never have voted for that um so that's one way that we can bring fiscal responsibility we focus on cutting costs and cutting the spending that is recklessly out of control i've run a business and you know what it's a construction company we've suffered for the past four years i know what it's like to have to live on an austere budget it's been really really tough and bringing that exact same mentality to washington where we can't be throwing money away on this thing or that focusing the resources on very very specific areas where uh they're most needed so i'm not gonna i'm not gonna understand you know i i'll tell you that uh on the convention trail one of my competitors who actually said he didn't file his papers but he was very nice guy he would stand up as part of his convention speech and give this five point plan to reduce the debt and the problem is a he's not running for an executive position so he doesn't really get to create the plan and as a junior senator i'm not necessarily going to be able to look as a cory booker slayer will i be able to have some little extra credibility in the setting for sure uh but am i still going to be a junior senator 1 out of 100 yes so there's a lot of dynamics that i can use to leverage to have more power they might just come as one out of a hundred but am i going to say i have a five point plan and the 99 rest of you this is what we're gonna do that's not gonna happen so i'm not gonna stand up here and concoct the plan just for to make everybody smile what's your opinion on uh the power of the union still in new jersey so there's different actually like the teachers union okay so uh my sister is a teacher so i'll preface it with that teacher too but i'm shocked at what the nga comes out with in terms of for the children right yes so i'm a big fan of charter schools um i support competition i think that's how we breed success uh so look the teachers need to understand if they're professionals they need to be treated as professionals uh they're not cookie cutter pegs to be interchanged with other people which is what unions were originally developed for right assembly lines and situations where people were all doing the exact same job that's not what teachers do whether it's the different subject matter the different grades or the fact that the different kids in the classroom every year require different teaching skills so you need to be treated like a professional you need to act like a professional as well so i'm not a big fan of the teachers union unions in general i think in many circumstances outlived their usefulness i can tell you that again my own personal history we my company is because we're in this weird niche of decorative concrete there are no union contractors to do what we do so we work in atlantic city for example we need to work with unions sometimes and sometimes we don't work with them we can go and without as an open shot what i find is that there are different kinds of people that are in the union there are guys who are there because they are there to try to get this middle class that the union's working hard to try to get from them and there are other people who are there because well their father was in the union and that's how they got in and they they're not really there to work they're really there just to be part of that system if you look at the first people we can work with them we can work together i can tell you that the business agent for the construction union that we work with is a republican he was actually at the atlantic county convention and his town uh supported me gave me all 57 of their votes there are ways to work with unions but things like the nlrb i would be opposed to the way that the president has been seating it right now and i think there actually are one or two open seats that have not been filled uh and which is a good thing because they keep coming out these crazy regulations as a business owner i've seen them uh things like last year the law was passed and then it got put aside for a while while they're trying to iron things out that every employer over i think 20 people needs to hang a sign telling their employees how to unionize yeah that's that's no the employees want to do it uh the union come in you can talk to them there are different ways to do it but you don't need to publicize to everybody this is how you go about unionizing so i'm not a big fan of unions um i believe in uh competition breeding success and that's not what unions are about i'm i'm very concerned with social security i've been told that you know my age group when it comes time to retire we're not going to have social security what are your thoughts so first of all i want to make something clear because no one's asked but i want to point this out before anybody does uh when i say empowerment not entitlement i'm not talking about social security the people who collect those are not it's not that we're trading off being empowered for those things that are mislabeled as entitlements these are people who paid into a system for their entire career and now are extracting some benefit for that i'm perfectly fine uh with that type of situation um social security needs to not be rated you know we heard before how the government is using social security funds to help say that the debt the deficit is not growing which is a fallacy so we need to if the funds are there they're supposed to be in a trust fund they're not supposed to be creating we're supposed to live with it like that um i i don't call for things like privatizing because i'm not sure that that's necessarily the way it works the idea behind social security is that uh the people who are collect who are paying today are paying the benefit to those who are collecting today right and based on that so it's almost a thank you for what you did to get me to where i am here today uh and that's fine and i'm okay with that uh what i'm not okay with is rating that fund for any other use that answers do you think that the money is going to be there from what i understand yes because uh the projections are all just that they're projections and a lot of times the numbers are skewed in ways that work to people's political benefit uh not necessarily to the true state of the situation so i'm not i'm not an alarmist that i'm running around screaming that the social security trust fund is going to be bankrupt in the next five years or something like that so keep working yeah yeah keep working on keep collecting people i'm getting hurt we appreciate you know as soon as i walk out the door you're going to remember all right i'll tell you um if you're on uh the internet you can find us at goldberg2014.com if you're on facebook please like the campaign page which is facebook.com goldberg 2014 i'm on twitter it's at brian the number four nj i don't tweet as much as senator big tweet i mean booker um i do tweet occasionally though so it's a good way to keep in touch with the campaign please follow us on twitter uh what am i we're basing any social media if you guys do that kind of stuff we're on all of them pinterest and uh instagram whatever instagram and i don't know i told you i have a youth coordinator i'm young and i don't even know what all these things are by the way i'm 40 until next until thursday actually so you're a young republican that's it i mean i'm not actually actually no one can give you the straight answer the cutoff is 40. but no one can tell me here you are 40. before 440 or when you turn 40. well i'm sorry last year on thursday i'll be 41 so i got two more days to go so we got paul with some of the public what do you think christie's chances are for running in 2016. um well look if his chances weren't good no one would hear anything about the bridge scandal no one would hear about this stuff they're attacking him specifically because his chances are good he actually has believe it or not a fair amount of support outside of the state because of what's been going on you know there's almost a badge of honor that he's getting attacked last week or the week before it came out there was a report that pretty much exonerated him from having anything to do with the bridge fiasco so uh if he comes out of that unscathed i'll tell you this much the democrats are still so scared that there are operatives in washington that were going to work on my campaign with me that were told by high level democrat operatives leave cory booker alone because we want to keep him untarnished for 2016. why he's not going to run for president no but what better way to take the shine off of our governor if he runs than to have his own senator as the veep candidate on the other side of the ticket which is very important by the way i was talking with someone before we got started that this is it this is our chance to take care of cory booker and make sure that he's no longer an elected official that represents us because if we don't win this year i promise you he will either be there for life as a senator or he will very soon be looking to run for some position in the executive branch so we need to make sure we win this year so i think i think it's these chances but i'm not i'm certainly not handicapping that race yet it's got a long time to play out uh our governor has to get through this bridge thing and there's a number of people who are yet to throw their hats in the ring that have been tossing around the ideas and i don't know who's going to make the best candidates but i'll tell you this my plan for new jersey is i win this year next year we take control of the assembly the following year we actually vote for a republican for president from new jersey in 2017 we're going to need to elect the governor because whether christie runs for president or not his term will be up so we'll have a newly elected republican governor and take control of the senate in new jersey and then 2018 we get rid of menendez guess what new jersey's a red state it all starts it all starts right here with me it all starts right here before or after you legalize marijuana the governor has shown it's not impossible if you if you walk around new jersey like i have and i don't just go to the core republican areas when i go out to campaign i i pretty much go anywhere you know i want to talk to everybody in new jersey and what i find is that new jersey is not a blue state you've got these little pockets of blue but if anything it's purple and most people actually have a conservative bent but because everybody tells them you just have to vote for the democrat that's what they do but as the governor like to point out although we are down by 700 000 registered republicans to democrats those numbers are 1 million to 1.7 million there are two and a half million unaffiliated voters in new jersey huge almost as much as the two parties combined can we win statewide elections as republicans sure if we go about it as i said in a positive way if we don't scare away the independence and we bring them to us by suggesting that we want to help them and it's not just a suggestion that i make idly it's really my core belief and i'm sure it's yours that's the conservative philosophy is that we believe that people will succeed and so if we just go out there and we spread that message you guys all talk to your neighbors and explain to them why it's critical this year to vote for a republican we'll wait we will it i really believe it i'm not up here because i want to make a name for myself or i have some other ambition down the line i want to be the united states senator from new jersey and i want to make sure cory booker serves as one and done what's your opinion on term limits how can we get how can you get rid of these people so that's that's the problem term limits however are a fix to a system they don't fix the actual problem all right so i'm not a fan for tournaments because they lead to lame duck legislators you can't get anything done if you know that there's no chance to ever run again part of being a politician which i'm sadly learning because look i've been involved in politics but i've never been a politician before is that part of winning is understanding the dynamics of the situation and if you have no uh lever any longer because you can't win you can't be involved anymore in the political process then you can't legislate so i'm not a fan of terminus for that reason but even more so okay so pick your least favorite congressman and we get rid of him because his term limits he only can serve four terms it's been eight years he's gotta leave what do you think you're gonna be the one who they just picked because they like you better no they're gonna hand pick the successor and make sure they groom that person and put that person in it doesn't really solve the problem the real problem is electing officials that you trust and you believe in and if we do that if we actually inform the electorate and we get people involved uh then we can deal with the problem in a way that's long-term and sustainable which that's what i learned in engineering school you need to do things that are long-term and sustainable questions i'm just you mentioned it briefly but since you mentioned it regarding fundraising i mean the reality of politics is that usually a person who can raise more money not always but usually has a much bigger advantage um and you also mentioned that cory booker has star power he has big pockets that are gonna give towards this campaign how do you plan on fighting back on that okay well first of all everybody has to help that's that's the first step right um whether it's ten dollars because you know i had a uh someone gave me a donation of a couple hundred dollars and they said they wish they could give more and i said you know what you can do go on facebook or send an email out to all your friends well i don't have friends with big wallets i said if they if ten people each give me ten dollars it's another hundred dollars again you know if you could get uh 20 people to each give 50 that's a thousand dollars it adds up really quickly when we look at it that way uh so everybody just giving even a little bit can go a long way are we ever going to amass the amount that cory booker advances i doubt it is our goal to raise in the high seven figures for sure that's where we need to be are we there today no way because you know what i've been doing for the past three months i was focused on two things petitions and conventions because that's how it works in new jersey if you don't know last week we had to file our petitions with the secretary of state the lieutenant governor and up until that point you had these conventions which was mentioned i won 10 out of the 14 nominations that we had in the state might as well rattle them off so you know in the order i received them were essex passaic ocean cumberland mercer atlantic somerset hunterdon hudson and burlington did i forget it right okay i was focused on that because that that leads to primary success all right i was not focused on fundraising and i'll be honest next week um my fundraising report will be coming out and it's going to be embarrassing because i didn't i really didn't even raise a finger to do any fundraising in total now now we've actually started uh some money has been coming in and we're going to be much more aggressive and to take a little bit of the sting out of the report that's going to come out next week and i'm not going to pray up the news right now but we're going to be making a major announcement in terms of who our fundraising chairman is i'll give you a little tip that he actually is the national finance director for a high-profile sitting u.s senator right now okay so i'm i'm playing in the big leagues with the real people uh that's how we're gonna do it but to date we have we haven't been focusing on it so but you can you can go to our website you can donate there we take checks um for sure and fundraisers oh the other thing uh mike you're supposed to yell at me if i don't mention these things if anybody here you know if you have uh 20 friends and you want to invite them over if we can get 20 people in a room everybody kick in 50 bucks i'll come for an hour i'll hang out with you uh you know we'll put out some hors d'oeuvres or something we can raise a thousand dollars we can do that and i'm happy to come i'm happy to do it i know that that's part of my job now is to make sure we have the financial resources to challenge cory booker uh one thing i can promise you though is as a fiscal conservative and as a businessman i'm not wasting money i'm using it very wisely and very very frugally to the point where it's embarrassing sometimes how cheap i can be about it but we need to conserve every penny that we have because we don't have a million dollars in the bank like cory booker does so thank you for bringing it up again i'm always anxious about you know i'm asking for your support uh for your votes and stuff you said you're 10 out of 14 i mean you have to i said you had 10 out of 14 what about the other seven um so the other seven are having open primaries they did not give the line to anybody and so counties like bergen and morris they're not they're not a community now but i can tell you those i've been heavily campaigning in those counties anyway so well there might be some of that some i don't think they they have some yeah they do they do for sure um but so we'll be fundraising there and campaigning um you know making sure i mentioned the yr chapters that i went to uh the first three were uh morris fergan and middlesex and my business is located in middlesex as well so uh it's an old bridge and the old bridge republican party is very supportive