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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>John Herbert Adler</b> (August 23, 1959 – April 4, 2011) was an American lawyer, politician and a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democratic Party</a> who served for one term as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. representative</a> for <span data-sort-value="New Jersey03 !"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey%27s_3rd_congressional_district" title="New Jersey's 3rd congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New Jersey's 3rd congressional district</a></span> from 2009 until 2011.<b> He lost his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections" title="2010 United States House of Representatives elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2010 congressional election</a> to former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Eagles" title="Philadelphia Eagles" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Philadelphia Eagles</a> football player <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Runyan_Sr." title="Jon Runyan Sr." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jon Runyan</a></b>. Prior to joining Congress, Adler was a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_Senate" title="New Jersey Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New Jersey Senate</a> from 1992 to 2009, where he represented the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_Legislative_Districts,2001_redistricting#District_6" class="mw-redirect" title="New Jersey Legislative Districts, 2001 redistricting" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6th Legislative District</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Only a few months after leaving the House, Adler unexpectedly died after suffering from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocarditis" title="Endocarditis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">endocarditis</a> as a result of getting a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staph_infection" class="mw-redirect" title="Staph infection" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">staph infection</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> In 2012, his widow <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_Adler" class="mw-redirect" title="Shelley Adler" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Shelley</a> announced her candidacy for the seat,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup> but she ended up losing to Runyan.</font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="margin: 0px; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center; direction: ltr;">
</div><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#Early_life_and_education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early life and education</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#Early_political_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early political career</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#New_Jersey_State_Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">New Jersey State Senate</span></font></a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#Legislation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Legislation</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#U.S.House_of_Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">U.S. House of Representatives</span></font></a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#Committee_assignments" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Committee assignments</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#Legislation_2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Legislation</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#Political_campaigns" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Political campaigns</span></font></a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#2008" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2008</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#2010" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2010</span></font></a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#Presidential_endorsements_in_2004_and_2008" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Presidential endorsements in 2004 and 2008</span></font></a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#Personal_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Personal life</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">See also</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">8</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">9</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Adler was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Philadelphia</a>, the son of Mary Louise (née Beatty) and John Herbert Adler. His ancestry included German (including Bavarian), English, and Irish.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup> He moved to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haddonfield,New_Jersey" title="Haddonfield, New Jersey" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Haddonfield, New Jersey</a> when he was two years old. His father owned a small dry cleaning store. When Adler was in high school, his father died after a series of heart attacks. Adler and his mother lost the family business, and survived off his father's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security(United_States)" title="Social Security (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Social Security</a> benefits for widows and minors. He attended <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haddonfield_Memorial_High_School" title="Haddonfield Memorial High School" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Haddonfield Memorial High School</a>.<b> He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in government from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_College" title="Harvard College" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Harvard College</a> and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Juris Doctor</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Law_School" title="Harvard Law School" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Harvard Law School</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NJLEG_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-NJLEG-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> He paid for law school through student loans, grants, and working odd jobs throughout college</b>.</font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_political_career">Early political career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From 1988 until 1989, Adler served on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Hill,New_Jersey" title="Cherry Hill, New Jersey" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cherry Hill Township</a> Council. While serving on the council, Adler passed the township's ethics ordinance.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1990, Adler challenged incumbent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Saxton" title="Jim Saxton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jim Saxton</a> for his seat in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey%27s_3rd_congressional_district" title="New Jersey's 3rd congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District</a>. Adler was defeated by Saxton by a margin of 60% to 40%.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="New_Jersey_State_Senate">New Jersey State Senate</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em;"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; padding: 3px; text-align: center; overflow: hidden; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); width: 222px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Adler.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6e/John_Adler.jpg/220px-John_Adler.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="thumbimage" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6e/John_Adler.jpg/330px-John_Adler.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6e/John_Adler.jpg/440px-John_Adler.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2576" data-file-height="1932" style="border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; border: 0px;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Adler.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url("/w/resources/src/mediawiki.skinning/images/magnify-clip-ltr.svg?8330e"); display: block; text-indent: 15px; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; width: 15px; height: 11px; user-select: none;" /></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Adler applauds a motion of the New Jersey Legislature.</font></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Adler was elected in 1991 to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_Senate" title="New Jersey Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New Jersey Senate</a>, where he served from 1992 until his inauguration into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.House_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. House of Representatives</a> in 2009. While in the Senate, Adler served on the Judiciary Committee (as Chair) and the Environment Committee. He served on the New Jersey Israel Commission since 1995, and on the New Jersey Intergovernmental Relations Commission from 1994 to 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-NJLEG_6-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-NJLEG-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Legislation">Legislation</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Adler was co-sponsor of the New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act, enacted in 2006, which banned smoking in almost all public places.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup> Adler was one of three co-sponsors of a Senate bill submitted in 2008 that would extend the smoking ban to casinos and simulcasting facilities, which had been exempted in the earlier version of the ban.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Adler co-sponsored legislation that strips government pensions from public employees who are convicted of or plead guilty to corruption charges.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[11]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Adler co-sponsored a bill that would expand voting rights for military personnel and New Jersey citizens overseas to include state and local elections. The bill was signed into law on August 12, 2008, by Governor Corzine.</span><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="U.S.House_of_Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Committee_assignments">Committee assignments</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Adler&action=edit§ion=6" title="Edit section: Committee assignments" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Financial_Services" title="United States House Committee on Financial Services" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Committee on Financial Services</font></a></b><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Financial_Services_Subcommittee_on_Capital_Markets,Insurance,and_Government-Sponsored_Enterprises" class="mw-redirect" title="United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government-Sponsored Enterprises" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government-Sponsored Enterprises</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Financial_Services_Subcommittee_on_Domestic_Monetary_Policy_and_Technology" title="United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Financial_Services_Subcommittee_on_Oversight_and_Investigations" title="United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations</font></a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Veterans%27_Affairs" title="United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Committee on Veterans' Affairs</font></a></b><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Veterans%27_Affairs_Subcommittee_on_Economic_Opportunity" title="United States House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Veterans%27_Affairs_Subcommittee_on_Oversight_and_Investigations" title="United States House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations</font></a></li></ul></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">U.S. Congressman Adler was ranked by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="The National Journal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The National Journal</a> as one of the ten most centrist members in the House of Representatives. He is ranked as 50.5 percent liberal and 49.5 percent conservative.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Legislation_2">Legislation</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Adler was in favor of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">American Recovery and Reinvestment Act</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[14]</a></sup> Adler voted against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program" title="Troubled Asset Relief Program" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Troubled Asset Relief Program</a> (TARP), and later voted to end the program.</span><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In January 2009, Adler announced his first bill as a U.S. Representative: the Safeguarding America's Seniors and Veterans Act, which mandated a one-time payment of $500 to persons eligible for Social Security, railroad retirement, or veterans disability benefits.</span><sup id="cite_ref-thos746_16-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-thos746-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> According to a statement by Adler's office, the bill was necessary because "the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2009" title="American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> fails to address the needs of our seniors and veterans".</span><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The bill attracted 11 cosponsors; it was referred to the House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Health, and progressed no further.</span><sup id="cite_ref-thos746_16-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-thos746-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <b>Adler voted for the </b></span><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodd%E2%80%93Frank_Wall_Street_Reform_and_Consumer_Protection_Act" title="Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></b><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In November 2009 and March 2010, Adler voted against House and the Senate Health Care bills.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup> He did not sign a petition circulated by Iowa Republican <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_King" title="Steve King" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Steve King</a> calling for a complete repeal of the law.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Adler voted in favor of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Clean_Energy_and_Security_Act" title="American Clean Energy and Security Act" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">American Clean Energy and Security Act</a>.</span><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Political_campaigns">Political campaigns</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2008">2008</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_New_Jersey#District_3" title="2008 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2008 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey § District 3</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On September 20, 2007, Adler announced that he planned a second challenge to Saxton. By this time, the district had been renumbered as <span data-sort-value="New Jersey03 !"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey%27s_3rd_congressional_district" title="New Jersey's 3rd congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New Jersey's 3rd congressional district</a></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup> The district stretches from the suburbs of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Philadelphia</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Ocean County" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ocean County</a>. On November 9, 2007, Saxton announced that he would not seek reelection in 2008, citing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate_cancer" title="Prostate cancer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">prostate cancer</a>. This dramatically altered the dynamics of the race; instead of facing a 25-year incumbent, Adler was now running in an open seat.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup> Adler was unopposed in the Democratic primary, and faced Republican <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medford,New_Jersey" title="Medford, New Jersey" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Medford</a> Mayor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin" title="Lockheed Martin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lockheed Martin</a> executive, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gulf War</a> veteran <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Myers(New_Jersey_politician)" title="Chris Myers (New Jersey politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chris Myers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup> Adler held a financial advantage over his opponent through all of the race, holding a 10–1 or 5–1 funding edge over Myers for a majority of the campaign.<sup id="cite_ref-CourierPost20080803_27-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-CourierPost20080803-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup> Adler had raised the most money in the country of any non-incumbent congressional candidate.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Adler received a number of endorsements for the election, including those from the Teamsters, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternal_Order_of_Police" title="Fraternal Order of Police" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Fraternal Order of Police</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Police_Organizations" title="National Association of Police Organizations" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">National Association of Police Organizations</a>, Professional Firefighters Association of New Jersey,<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[30]</a></sup> New Jersey Environmental Federation, The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Club" title="Sierra Club" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Sierra Club</a>, the Humane Society Legislative Fund, The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Health Care, and the Recreational Fishing Alliance.</span><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-31" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-31" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">31]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee committed $1.7 million in ad buys to Adler's campaign.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a></sup> In comparison, the NRCC committed $84,200 in coordinated ad buys with the Myers campaign, in addition to help the NRCC gave in financing an internal poll in September with the Myers campaign. Myers also benefited from two ad buys by the 501(c)(4) organization <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%27s_Watch" title="Freedom's Watch" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Freedom's Watch</a>, which attacked John Adler on his tax record, his legislative history, and contributions he received from subprime mortgage companies.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Adler won a majority of newspaper endorsements. He was endorsed by the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_of_Atlantic_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Press of Atlantic City" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Press of Atlantic City</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[37]</a></sup> <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philadelphia_Inquirer" title="The Philadelphia Inquirer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Philadelphia Inquirer</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a></sup> <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The New York Times</a></i>, <sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[39]</a></sup> the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington_County_Times" title="Burlington County Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Burlington County Times</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[40]</a></sup> the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courier_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Courier Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Courier Post</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[41]</a></sup> Myers received the endorsement of the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbury_Park_Press" title="Asbury Park Press" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Asbury Park Press</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[42]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 3rd district race was the last one to be called in New Jersey on Election Night 2008. Adler ultimately defeated Myers with 52.08% of the vote to Myers' 47.92%.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[43]</a></sup> He was sworn into his position as the Congressman from the 3rd district of New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives on January 6, 2009, the first Democrat to represent this district in 123 years. The district was the 1st for most of the time until 1967, then was the 6th from 1967 to 1983, the 13th from 1983 to 1993, and has been the 3rd since 1993.</font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2010">2010</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_New_Jersey#District_3" title="2010 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2010 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey § District 3</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Adler lost the 2010 midterm election to Republican nominee <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Runyan_Sr." title="Jon Runyan Sr." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Jon Runyan</a>. Adler received 47.3% of the vote, while Runyan received slightly more than half the votes cast.<sup id="cite_ref-njelections.org_44-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-njelections.org-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[44]</a></sup> Runyan is a former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Eagles" title="Philadelphia Eagles" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Philadelphia Eagles</a> star</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Laurel,New_Jersey" title="Mount Laurel, New Jersey" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Mount Laurel</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> resident.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to Runyan, Adler was challenged by NJ Tea Party nominee Peter DeStefano, Libertarian nominee Russ Conger, and Your Country Again nominee Lawrence J. Donahue.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Republicans heavily targeted this seat in this election cycle.</b><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><b>[</b>45]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> A warning sign for Adler came in the New Jersey gubernatorial race in 2009, when Republican candidate </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Christie" title="Chris Christie" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Chris Christie</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> carried Adler's district by 17 points over Democratic Governor Jon Corzine </span><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[46]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Governor Christie campaigned hard for Runyan, calling Adler a <b>"career politician".</b></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some Democratic operatives asserted that Adler campaign staffers and the Camden County Democratic Committee (CCDC) recruited Tea Party candidate Peter DeStefano in an attempt to split the conservative vote and benefit Adler. New Jersey Tea Party groups said they had never heard of DeStefano until he had a strong showing in a July poll released by the Adler campaign.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[47]</a></sup> On October 8, 2010, the Associated Press reported, based on the details of an earlier article at CourierPostOnline.com, that <b>there was "mounting evidence" that the Democrats recruited DeStefano</b>. The article noted that a Democratic Party employee ran DeStefano's website and that many of the signatures on DeStefano's nominating petitions belonged to Democrats – including a former Adler campaign staffer.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-48" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[48]</a></sup> Reportedly, Steve Ayscue, the paid head of operations for CCDC, and Geoff Mackler, Adler's campaign manager, presented a plan at CCDC Headquarters during a May 26 meeting of the South Jersey Young Democrats, and some of those present soon joined in circulating a petition to place Peter DeStefano on the ballot.<sup id="cite_ref-CP20101008_49-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-CP20101008-49" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[49]</a></sup> Adler denied the allegations.<sup id="cite_ref-Cynthia_Burton_50-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-Cynthia_Burton-50" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[50]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mulvihill_51-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-mulvihill-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[51]</a></sup> DeStefano called the suggestion that he was a Democratic plant "a bunch of crap".<sup id="cite_ref-Cynthia_Burton_50-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-Cynthia_Burton-50" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[50]</a></sup> In the end, DeStefano garnered only 1.5% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-njelections.org_44-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-njelections.org-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[44]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Presidential_endorsements_in_2004_and_2008">Presidential endorsements in 2004 and 2008</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On October 7, 2003, the then-State Senator Adler (along with Representative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Pascrell" title="Bill Pascrell" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Bill Pascrell</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey%27s_8th_congressional_district" title="New Jersey's 8th congressional district" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">New Jersey's 8th congressional district</a>) formally endorsed Massachusetts Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">John Kerry</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_presidential_election" title="2004 United States presidential election" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">President in 2004</a> and became the co-chairman of his campaign in the state</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Shortly afterwards, on December 19, 2003, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_New_Jersey" title="Governor of New Jersey" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Governor</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_McGreevey" title="Jim McGreevey" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Jim McGreevey</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and most of the rest of the New Jersey Democratic Party came out in support of former </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Vermont" title="Governor of Vermont" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Governor of Vermont</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean" title="Howard Dean" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Howard Dean</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> for President. Because of Adler's endorsement of Kerry, and Kerry's decisive win in the Democratic Primary, Adler was rumored to be the frontrunner for </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.District_Court_for_the_District_of_New_Jersey" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. Attorney for New Jersey</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> if Kerry were to win the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_presidential_election" title="2004 United States presidential election" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">2004 presidential election</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (which he did not).</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Similar to in 2004, State Senator Adler was one of the first elected officials in New Jersey to go against the party establishment in his presidential endorsement during the 2008 election cycle. He endorsed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Barack Obama</a> for the Democratic</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> presidential nomination when the majority of other New Jersey Democratic politicians supported initial frontrunner </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Hillary Clinton</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Like with Kerry instead of Dean, Obama, who was Adler's choice, would go on to become the Democratic nominee instead of Clinton.</span></font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life">Personal life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Adler met his wife, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_Adler" class="mw-redirect" title="Shelley Adler" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Shelley</a> (born October 4, 1959, Chicago, Illinois)<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[52]</a></sup> while at Harvard Law School. He <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_to_Judaism" title="Conversion to Judaism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">converted</a> to her faith of Judaism in 1985, having been raised an Episcopalian.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-53" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[53]</a></sup> After the pair graduated, they returned to south Jersey and settled down in Cherry Hill. The Adlers resided in Cherry Hill with their four sons until his death. Shelley is a lawyer and former councilwoman.<sup id="cite_ref-continue_54-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-continue-54" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[54]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In March 2011, Adler contracted a staph infection which resulted in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocarditis" title="Endocarditis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">endocarditis</a>, leading to emergency heart surgery. He never recovered and died on April 4, 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-55" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[55]</a></sup> Adler was buried in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locustwood_Memorial_Park,_Cherry_Hill_Township" title="Locustwood Memorial Park, Cherry Hill Township" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Locustwood Memorial Park, Cherry Hill Township</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_New_Jersey#District_3" title="2012 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2012</a>, Shelley Adler unsuccessfully ran against Runyan for Adler's old U.S. House seat.<sup id="cite_ref-continue_54-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adler#cite_note-continue-54" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[54]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_members_of_the_United_States_Congress" title="List of Jewish members of the United States Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">List of Jewish members of the United States Congress</font></a></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="References"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">References</font></span></h2></div><div><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></span></div><div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="" /><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/11/trump-oppo-researcher-roman-403138</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Past administrations have also employed people with opposition research and investigative experience. But such dirt-digging operatives have typically not been installed inside the White House counsel’s office. | Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Updated: 02/11/2018 10:15 PM EST</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Few people in or close to the White House have any idea what Michael Roman does all day.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Officially, Roman works as a special assistant to the president and director of special projects and research, a vague title that reveals almost nothing. He earns $115,000 a year for this work, according to White House salary records, and keeps an office inside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>He reports to White House counsel Don McGahn, who represented the conservative Koch network as a lawyer during the period when Roman was working for the Kochs’ Freedom Partners group as head of research— a $269,000-a-year job that involved tracking the activities of Democratic political organizers and donors</b>.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Roman, whose 25-person intelligence-gathering unit was officially disbanded by the Kochs in 2016, was hired by Donald Trump’s campaign to oversee poll-watching in the final weeks before the election and was among a handful of unannounced hires who quietly joined the White House soon after Trump’s inauguration.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He’s not involved in the kind of advance work that researchers hired by previous administrations have handled, according to interviews with half a dozen current and former White House officials and advisers.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Some said Roman is vetting special appointees by checking their social media footprints and financial backgrounds. A handful of people described Roman as McGahn’s researcher, while one described him as a “loyal soldier” to McGahn. Another characterized his work in the office as opposition research, but could not specify what precisely that entailed. One White House official said he was heavily involved in extensively researching the background of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, who was selected a year ago</span>.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Within the research world, he cultivates this ‘man of the world’ mystery,” said one former administration official. “Like, he was the guy who you would talk to if you want to find a Hungarian hacker in Hong Kong.”</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Roman, McGahn and a White House spokesman did not respond to requests for comment.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Early in his career, Roman did political consulting work in New Jersey and his home state of Pennsylvania, as well as stints at the Republican National Committee and on the presidential campaigns of George W. Bush, Rudy Giuliani and Sen. John McCain.</b></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On his blog, called Election Journal, Roman describes himself as a “veteran political consultant and private investigator.”</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">People who have known Roman professionally dating back to his work for <b>Bush’s campaign </b>describe him as a seasoned operative and die-hard Philadelphia Eagles fan, with a blue-collar upbringing.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I’ve known him for 15 years. This is a guy you want on your side when you’re in a tough election,” said Mike DuHaime, a partner at Mercury and former political director for the RNC. “He does not back down from a challenge. I’m sure the Trump campaign saw that when not a lot of people would support the candidate.”</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In much of his political work before joining the Koch network, Roman worked on boosting voter turnout and coordinating with state Republican Party leaders, DuHaime said.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On Election Day, Roman was stationed in Pennsylvania, his beloved home state. He also oversaw the campaign’s “election integrity” efforts across the country.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>One Republican strategist close to the administration said Roman acted during the transition as a manager to help McGahn with his incoming team of lawyers, many of whom came from McGahn’s former firm Jones Day.</b></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“That was a big priority and focus of Don McGahn,” said the strategist. “Roman played an important role during the transition for whatever came up for Don.”</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Past administrations have also employed people with opposition research and investigative experience. But such dirt-digging operatives have typically not been installed inside the White House counsel’s office among the lawyers, who tackle everything from White House ethics to national security decisions to general legal advice to protect the institution of the presidency.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rather, those positions typically are housed within the advance or scheduling offices to vet the hundreds of people who appear alongside the president during speeches, roundtables or factory visits.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“It was standard vetting to protect the office of the president and office of the vice president,” said Jeff Berkowitz, former associate director of scheduling research under President George W. Bush. “You can’t have a person on the stage with the president, in the age of Google, who has not paid his back taxes.”</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Berkowitz added that his office also worked with the press shop and White House counsel’s team to vet greeters, event participants and requests for the first lady to be honorary chairs for groups and events.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Obama White House did not employ high-level nonlawyers in its counsel’s office, said Norm Eisen, White House special counsel for ethics under President Barack Obama. The nonlawyers in that office during that administration were very junior fact-checkers, akin to paralegals, Eisen added.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Roman briefly cultivated a public profile, writing occasional bylined pieces from 2009 through 2011 for Breitbart News on topics ranging from alleged voter fraud in Pennsylvania and New York to the Department of Justice’s handling of the New Black Panther Party to a </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">hit piece on Democratic Rep. John Adler.</span></b></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Election monitoring, concerns about voter fraud and Election Day poll monitoring have long been a passion of Roman’s and the primary focus of his blog, with entries dating as far back as 2008. “If an election is worth winning, then there is someone willing to steal it,” Roman wrote in one introductory post.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Roman also attracted notice a decade ago for disseminating a 2008 YouTube video showing two members of the New Black Panther Party, dressed in black with berets and one carrying a nightstick, milling around a North Philadelphia polling station — a video that ended up being played on a loop on the Fox News Network that year, personifying conservative fears about voter intimidation.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>“The video was certainly used by political operatives to create this false impression of voter intimidation and fraud being a major problem,” said Rick Hasen</b>, a professor who specializes in election law at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law. “Even today, people will say, ‘<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">What about the New Black Panthers?’ They really are a nonentity.”</span></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Eliana Johnson contributed to this report.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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