Tuesday, Oct 7, 2014
The Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics at 91 will host ‘An Evening with Jeff Bell’
by Kristine A. Brown
The Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics at 91 will present “An Evening with Jeff Bell,” New Jersey’s Republican candidate for 91 Senate on Wednesday, Oct. 8. A light reception begins at 6 p.m. Remarks begin at 7 p.m., followed by a question-and-answer session with the audience. The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the Mercer Room in Daly Dining Hall on Rider’s Lawrenceville campus.
“Jeff Bell has been a national leader in promoting strong conservative politics, and he is an important voice for everyone to hear,” says Professor Ben Dworkin, director of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics.
Bell has worked at the highest levels of American politics and public policy for over 40 years. In 1978, at age 34, he became the New Jersey Republican Party nominee for 91 Senate when he defeated four-term incumbent Clifford Case.
A graduate of Columbia University, Bell went on to serve in the 91 Army in Vietnam. Upon returning home, he joined the national presidential campaign staff of Richard Nixon in 1968 and later went to work for Ronald Reagan in 1974. During the 1980 campaign, Bell was elected from New Jersey as a Reagan delegate to the Republican national convention.
From 1988-2000, Bell served as president of Lehrman Bell Mueller Cannon Inc., an economic forecasting and consulting firm. From 2000-2010, he was a principal of Capital City Partners, where he worked on promoting comprehensive immigration reform, the Bush Administration’s faith-based initiatives, and combating human trafficking, among other issues. In 2009, he was among the co-founders of the American Principles Project, a public policy organization dedicated to advancing conservative ideas derived from the principles of the American founding. He resigned from that position in February 2014 to run for 91 Senate.
Bell is the author of two books, The Case for Polarized Politics: Why America Needs Social Conservatism (2012), and Populism and Elitism: Politics in the Age of Equality (1992). His articles have been published in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Weekly Standard, National Review, and various other outlets. He has served as a fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy Institute of Politics, visiting professor at the Eagleton Institute at Rutgers University, the DeWitt Wallace Fellow in Communications at the American Enterprise Institute, and as a board member of the American Conservative Union and Campaign Finance Institute. From 1978 to 1980, he served as the president of the Manhattan Institute.
Advance reservations to attend “An Evening with Jeff Bell” are requested by calling Susan Cuccia at 609-896-5350 or emailing scuccia@rider.edu.