MATT ROONEY – Save Jersey’s Founder & Blogger-in-Chief
Then a 23-year old law student looking to make a difference in his home state, Matt Rooney launched The Save Jersey Blog in August 2008 with a $0 budget and a Facebook group page. He began to write about both trending and under-the-radar topics in New Jersey politics. He had recognized a critical need for an independent, pro-taxpayers voice in the New Jersey media.
Over the next two years, Matt’s single man operation quickly blossomed into the primary online gathering place for New Jersey’s long-beleaguered conservative movement with thousands of weekly visitors.
Matt is a life-long New Jersey resident born at Camden City’s Cooper Hospital in 1984. When he’s not fighting for a freer and more prosperous Garden State, Matt is a practicing attorney at the firm of DeMichele & DeMichele, P.C. in Haddon Heights, New Jersey, focusing on family, personal injury and municipal court matters. He earned his Juris Doctorate in 2010 from the Rutgers University School of Law – Camden; in 2007, he graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree and as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. where he was an active College Republican leader.
Follow Matt: Facebook - Twitter - Email - Law Office
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BRIAN McGOVERN – Save Jersey’s Managing Editor
Brian McGovern assumed interim “Blogger-in-Chief” duties in August 2010 when site founder Matt Rooney went on a one year hiatus to work in state government. He immediately set to work recruiting new writers and broadening the blog’s appeal with the approach of critical elections in 2011 and 2012.
Brian wears many hats these days including Voorhees Township GOP Municipal Chairman, co-owner of the Republican campaign consulting firm Exit 3 Strategies, Inc. and full-time law student at the Rutgers-Camden School of Law. A South Jersey native, Brian is dedicated to fighting for Save Jersey’s vision of a freer and more affordable Garden State. Brian currently serves as Save Jersey’s managing editor. He continues to lead the blog’s efforts to develop its ever-expanding network across the Garden State.
Follow Brian on: Facebook – Twitter - Email
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ED SHEPPARD
Growing up on the Pennsylvania side of the river just outside Trenton, Ed Sheppard got his start in Republican politics as the President of the San Francisco Young Republicans and Vice-Chair of Communications for the San Francisco GOP. While Pelosi was Speaker. And he did it all in his free time for fun, as he worked in finance at the time. Now working in the private sector in South Jersey, Ed is pretty much one of the only folks in New Jersey writing about politics south of AC Expressway. And pretty much the only single guy under 30 south of the AC Expressway, too.
Follow Ed on: Facebook – Twitter
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MATT DeLUCA
Sarcastic, quirky but always on point, Matt DeLuca is a proud New Jerseyan and former College Republican activist who currently serves as a Senior Online Analyst at the DC-based firm New Media Strategies. Matt has blogged for the site since 2009 and serves as Save Jersey’s de facto D.C. blogging correspondent.
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ALEX SMITH
This 22-year-old Eastern Pennsylvania native is an bona fide adopted Save Jerseyan. Alex is a veteran of Garden State GOP campaigns in Cape May, Atlantic, Mercer and Ocean counties going back to 2007. She was also responsible for recruiting scores of grassroots volunteers from outside New Jersey to journey up (or down) I-95 to reinforce the infant Christie Revolution.
Currently, Alex is weathering her first year at Seton Hall Law School. She proudly serves as National Co-Chairwoman of the College Republicans.
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JAMES BEATTIE
A concerned, lifelong native of Bergen County, NJ, James participated in his first local campaign during his senior year of high school and has already run for council in his hometown of Bergenfield in 2010. James will be dedicating his energies to covering stories in Bergen County and throughout New Jersey, and is looking forward to learning something new in his writings everyday. Other than politics, James enjoys sports including hockey, soccer and football, volunteering in his church and other organizations, including educating the public about epilepsy with The Anita Kaufmann Foundation (www.akfus.org), several amateur radio organizations in northern New Jersey, (James’s call sign is KC2SQV), and with his ambulance corps as an EMT in Bergen County
Follow James on: Facebook
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IRWIN M. FLETCHER
Irwin M. Fletcher has the best nom de plume in all of Atlantic County, and probably all of New Jersey. Unless of course someone starts rocking “Jane Doe” or “Ted Nugent”. He will be using his anonymity to expose the truth about candidates in this year’s races that they don’t want you to know. Because it’s kind of his job.
Follow Irwin on: Facebook
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JOSHUA EINSTEIN
Joshua Einstein is a loud and proud resident of Hoboken, capital of the Greater Hoboken Area (NJ and NYC). Originally from Teaneck in Bergen County, he is proud of Bergen’s love of its tax cutting and waste destroying Republican county officeholders and wishes that one day his adopted Hudson County will leave Soviet orbit and have a two party system. He likes reading science fiction, is a National Review Conservative, an Occidental Orientalist, and an old order classical liberal (ie Conservative). He likes long walks on the beach with the Christian Right, enjoys sipping scotch whilst throwing down with Progressives, and has no tolerance for the intolerant.
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JACKIE LEMAIRE
Jackie Lemaire is a 25-year-old former resident of Franklin Lakes now a Washingtonian. She was a Political Science major at American University, a member of the AU College Republicans, and now works in Washington DC. She enjoys politics, fashion, writing, and summers spent at the Jersey shore.
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