Hillsborough Teen Age Republican Club Inaugural Meeting

Pictured: Doug Tomson, Allison Bijas, Joseph Bijas, Connor Leoni, Jack Dankers, Tyler Monte, Donny Huff, Sean Cavanaugh, Robert DiCenzo, Patrick Carew, Brendan O’Kane, Gloria McCauley, Mayor Frank DelCore, Christine Madrid, Mark Caliguire, Pat Walsh

On March 19^th The Hillsborough Teen Age Republican Club held their inaugural meeting at The Landing.

The teens picked an exciting night to have their first meeting, which was a joint meeting with The Hillsborough Republican Club, the Hillsborough Republican Committee and the Hillsborough Teen Age Republican Club. Our current Mayor, Frank DelCore was nominated by the Hillsborough GOP to run again for Township Committee. Former Freeholder and Montgomery Mayor Mark Caliguire, former Montgomery Mayor Christine Madrid who are both running for State Assembly spoke to the members about their upcoming campaign, Pat Walsh who is Freeholder Deputy Director running for Freeholder as well as William “Bill” Parenti who is current North Plainfield Chief of Police running for Somerset County Sheriff. All the speakers spent time with the Teen’s having open discussion and answering some tough questions. Beside Mayor DelCore, Township Committee members, Gloria McCauley, Doug Tomson and Shawn Lipani came over to the Teen’s table for a nice chat. Also spending time with the Teen’s were Somerset County Surrogate Frank Bruno who shared his stories of his Republican beginnings as a teen, Former Freeholder and long time Somerset County advocate Peter Palmer shared some stories with the teens about life in politics.

All of our new Hillsborough Teen Age Republican Club members enjoyed the evening’s festivities and excitement learning about what goes on behind the scenes and what the beginning of a political campaign looks like. The teens will have many more opportunities to experience how the election process works and what goes into it.

The Hillsborough Teen Age Republican Club will decide in the next few meetings what Community Service project they would like to tackle and make their own. There are a lot of great idea’s coming in and I am sure they will choose a great project to be proud of. The leadership of the Hillsborough Republican Club have gotten tremendous feedback from parents and friends about the Teen Age Club. I am sure everyone looks forward to seeing what these teens can accomplish within and for the community, I think we are looking at our bright future with these smart and eager to learn young adults.

The Hillsborough Teen Age Republican Club is a part of the National Teen Age Republican’s which has clubs throughout the country.