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New Jersey senatorial candidate Jeff Bell visits NA.
The Newark Academy Young Republicans welcomed senatorial candidate Jeff Bell to lead a discussion focused on encouraging civic involvement among young people.

Bell is the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate. He will challenge incumbent Cory Booker in the November general election. During his talk, he explained some of the origins of the challenges currently facing the U.S. eonomy and the factors that contribute to political gridlock.

A graduate of Columbia University, Jeff Bell joined the national presidential campaign staff of Richard Nixon in 1968 and later went to work for Ronald Reagan in 1974. He developed Governor Reagan’s first proposals for federal tax and spending reduction when Reagan ran for president in 1976. During the 1980 campaign, Bell was elected from New Jersey as a Reagan delegate to the Republican national convention. He produced television ads for Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign and later worked as an advocate for the bipartisan Tax Reform Act of 1986.

Bell is the author of two books, The Case for Polarized Politics: Why America Needs Social Conservatism; and Populism and Elitism: Politics in the Age of Equality.
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