Dan Cirucci: NJ Sen. Allen Elected Deputy GOP Senate Leader

Thursday, November 10, 2011

NJ Sen. Allen Elected Deputy GOP Senate Leader

The New Jersey Republican Caucus today met to elect its leadership team for the 2012-2013 legislative session. Senator Tom Kean, Jr. (R- 21), will serve as Republican Leader, with Senator Diane Allen (R- 7) serving as Deputy Republican Leader. Bravo to the GOP senators for selecting Sen. Allen of Burlington County.

Rounding out the caucus's leadership team is Senator Kevin O'Toole (R- 40), Republican Whip, Senator Robert Singer (R- 30), Conference Chairman, Senator Christopher "Kip" Bateman (R- 16), Deputy Conference Chairman, and Senator Anthony Bucco (R- 25), the caucus's Budget Officer. All leaders were elected unanimously.

"It's an honor to once again receive the trust of my colleagues to lead the Republican Caucus in the Senate," said Kean. "We've put a great team on the field that will do everything in our power to stand up to the Majority's endless attempts to increase taxes on job creators and families and increase the size of a government that is already too large and costly. It is our hope that the Majority will work with us to heed the call of New Jersey taxpayers to make our state a more affordable place in which to live, work, and create jobs through fundamental, sweeping reform."

Kean pointed to unfinished legislative efforts to control property taxes and reform education as priorities for the upcoming session. "Municipalities of all sizes are borrowing money to pay employees for unused sick leave. The state's school funding formula is enormously unfair to the vast majority of taxpayers in the state, and school districts still lack the necessary tools to operate more efficiently and ensure a quality teacher is in every classroom," he said. "Republican Senators will not let defenders of the status quo prevent us from putting forth solutions to these, and other, challenges. We hope that the Majority will find itself up to the task of working with us on these important issues, but we will continue to put solutions on the table regardless because the cost of inaction is too high for the people of New Jersey."

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He's been cited by the late Rush Limbaugh, quoted in the New York Times, featured at Real Clear Politics and Lucianne.com and interviewed across all media.

He's Dan Cirucci, the founder and editor-in chief of the Dan Cirucci Blog, a Save Jersey blog columnist, frequent guest on the Matt Rooney radio show and one of the most widely honored public relations professionals in his field. He's also been a public relations consultant to numerous organizations and individuals and hosted The Advocates on RVN-TV.

Inducted into the Philadelphia Public Relations Hall of Fame, for many years he served as a Lecturer in Corporate Communication at Penn State University. A former President of the Philadelphia Public Relations Association (PPRA) he has lectured at Rowan University, Temple University, The College of New Jersey and Arcadia University. He has conducted workshops on public relations for thousands of participants throughout the nation and has taught countless others the art of public speaking. He has also advised numerous lawyers, judges, public officials and political candidates.

Cirucci is a prolific writer and his op-ed pieces have appeared in the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Courier-Post, Broad and Liberty and other print and online platforms.

A native of Camden NJ, Cirucci is a former President of the Philadelphia chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators. Cirucci served as Associate Executive Director of the Philadelphia Bar Association for nearly 30 years. He served as Chair of Penn State University's Professional Advisory Board for the Corporate Communication major at Penn State Abington and on the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Judicial Selection Commission.

He received his MA degree from Rowan University and his BA from Villanova University. He has been named a Distinguished Alumnus of Rowan's public relations program and received the E. A. "Wally" Richter Leadership Award, the highest honor from the National Association of Bar Executives' Communications Section. He has also been honored by numerous other local, state and national groups.

In his hometown of Camden, Cirucci taught fifth grade at the Ulysses Wiggins Elementary School named for the founder of the Camden NAACP. There he was one of the first teachers in the country to teach African-American history to inner city students. He later served as editor of a local weekly newspaper, as Assistant to the Township Manager of Cherry Hill Township and as Associate Director of Communications at the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Cirucci's passions include all things Italian, politics, the popular culture, books and authors, art, communication, music, theatre, movies, dining and travel.

He and his wife Carole have two grown children and seven grandchildren.

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