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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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2019-11-21 |
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| Name | David Applefield |
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Red Bank, New Jersey , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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00, 1956
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| Died | July 08, 2020
(64 years)
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| Contributor | BrentinCO |
| Last Modifed | David
Jul 08, 2020 07:37pm |
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| Info | Year of birth is speculative. His obituary says he was 64 when he died.
I was born in Elizabeth and grew up in Newark, New Providence, and Livingston. My dad was an All-State New Jersey baseball pitcher from Union. My mom was a child Holocaust survivor who arrived in Rahway in 1947. They both went to Rutgers, and married in Carteret 1954. My father worked as a teacher and then stockbroker, and my mother became a social worker.
After high school, I studied at Amherst College and graduated in 1978 with a BA in English. After completing a Masters in English at Northeastern University, I landed a job at UNESCO and then taught at the American University in Paris, where I wrote the guidebook Paris Inside Out and two novels. I started a small publishing and media company and learned the difficulties of running your own small business. As your Congressman, I want to work to help small businesses thrive without so many burdens.
MEET DAVID APPLEFIELD
I am devoted to finding solutions. What I bring to NJ4 is a fresh vision, ideas that will work, and a belief that we must ask the hard questions in order to achieve the necessary results.
We can fix almost anything with imaginative ideas for NJ4. We just need the courage to talk about things that are challenging, and to openly ask why things are the way they are. Why is healthcare so expensive? Why are we not protecting our environment? Why has a District with so much talent continued to send the same person to Washington for so many years?
I want to ask these questions in Congress, and help us get answers. I have a plan for financing local businesses, funding local projects, sponsoring local programs, and empowering local entrepreneurs. I also have a plan to set up cultural and educational exchanges including travel overseas. I have a vision for bringing world-class cultural figures and social thinkers to NJ4.
We can fix almost anything with imaginative ideas for NJ4. We just need the courage to talk about things that are challenging, and to openly ask why things are the way they are. Why is healthcare so expensive? Why are we not protecting our environment? Why has a District with so much talent continued to send the same person to Washington for so many years?
I want to ask these questions in Congress, and help us get answers. I have a plan for financing local businesses, funding local projects, sponsoring local programs, and empowering local entrepreneurs. I also have a plan to set up cultural and educational exchanges including travel overseas. I have a vision for bringing world-class cultural figures and social thinkers to NJ4.
We need to return to the values of the common good, while being open to the opportunities of new industries and services. Mostly, we need to see with our hearts, ask questions without fear of judgment, aim high, and talk!
My wife, Julia, is a certified sophrologist—that’s a kind of therapy for relieving stress and pain. We have three grown children, Alex (33), a social enterprise trainer, Anna (25), a registered nurse, and Ernesto (22), a professional soccer player. Julia and I live in Red Bank with our adopted black lab.
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