ICYMI: Camden County Republicans Are Planning A “Warm Welcome” For Nancy Pelosi

Donald Norcross

In less than two weeks Nancy Pelosi will be in South Jersey at Camden County College in Blackwood to join CD1 Congressman Donald Norcross in a “Rally for Progress.” Norcross says, “we are going to show Donald Trump that South Jersey is not ‘Trump Country.’” No doubt Norcross and his Democrat friends are still upset that President Trump had a successful rally in Wildwood.

The Norcross campaign has been pushing this event (and a fundraiser) on social media and through mailers. Interestingly, Republicans in Democrat controlled towns who have been appointed to municipal boards and commissions have been getting the mailers, which calls into question where the campaign’s mailing lists come from, but that’s a story for another day.

According to Patch.com Camden County Republicans are planning “what is being called a ‘warm welcome’ for Nancy Pelosi.”

The article goes on to say:

She will appear at Camden County College's Blackwood Campus on Feb. 29, according to an email Norcross issued to supporters last week. Crone said Republicans will gather at the college on the same day to welcome a House Speaker he refers to as among the "most divisive speakers" there has ever been.

And, Camden County GOP’s executive director Tom Crone says:

"She's coming here because Donald Trump came here," Crone said. "They're going to rally Democrats who are political appointees who will be told to go there and smile. It's not going to be an organic rally like it was in Wildwood (for Trump)."

The Patch.com piece continues:

Crone said he expects a crowd similar to the one that greeted then House Speaker Harry Reid when he came to Cherry Hill for a fundraiser in 2014. That year, Reid was there to support Norcross, who was in the midst of his first bid for Congress.

That crowd had a heavy Tea Party influence, whereas this will be a crowd supporting an incumbent president who calls South Jersey "Trump Country."

Camden County Republicans are expecting a good turnout for this event and I have learned they are planning a sign making party in the lead up to the event. Visit the Camden County GOP Facebook page to learn more.

This could be an exciting event. The last time I joined Tom Crone for a “protest” type event was in 2003. Tom, his son, my father and I were dragged out of a Camden County Freeholder meeting by the Winslow Township Police.