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Bill Spadea

Bill Spadea is running for governor as a bold, anti-establishment outsider focused on restoring “common sense” leadership in New Jersey. A former U.S. Marine Corps Reservist and longtime NJ101.5 radio host, Spadea has built a strong grassroots following through years of direct engagement with working-class residents and sharp critiques of entrenched political elites. With no prior elected office, he leverages his outsider status as a strength, positioning himself as a fighter for middle-class families who are fed up with rising costs, government mandates, and cultural overreach.

Spadea’s agenda emphasizes aggressive government reform, including slashing taxes, cutting wasteful spending (especially at Rutgers and state agencies), and overhauling education through executive orders. He champions medical freedom, parental rights, law enforcement support, and traditional family values. On immigration, energy, and election policy, he takes hardline stances—calling for an end to sanctuary policies, rejecting green energy mandates, and requiring full voter re-registration with ID. His campaign is framed as a referendum on elite mismanagement and a call to return New Jersey to affordability, safety, and accountability.

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Spadea

Running for:
Governor
Incumbent
Challenger

Websites

This election is on June 10th, 2025

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Events
  • Cumberland County Regular Republican Organization Breakfast
  • Listen to party messaging and potentially meet Republican candidates Party Site
  • 05/10/25 - 8:30am
  • Eastlyn Golf Course, 4049 Italia Ave, Vineland, NJ, 08361
  • RSVP: dgeno2383@gmail.com on or before that week's Tuesday
  • Cumberland County Regular Republican Organization Breakfast
  • Listen to party messaging and potentially meet Republican candidates Party Site
  • 05/24/25 - 8:30am
  • Mauricetown Fire Company, 9544 Noble St. Mauricetown, NJ 08349
  • RSVP: dgeno2383@gmail.com on or before that week's Tuesday

Agenda

  • Affordability & Tax Reform
    - Slash government waste and bureaucracy
    - Cut over $1 billion from Rutgers’ budget
    - Monetize NJ Transit real estate assets to reduce property taxes
    - Reduce corporate and business tax burdens to spur job growth

  • Medical Freedom
    - Oppose vaccine mandates for employment or education
    - Reinstate nurses and workers fired for noncompliance with COVID mandates
    - Support access to holistic and alternative healthcare options

  • Education Reform
    - Remove Board of Education members with expired terms
    - Enforce school choice policies via executive order
    - Ban CRT, DEI initiatives, and sexually explicit content in schools

  • Crime & Public Safety
    - Declare a statewide public safety emergency
    - Suspend bail reform laws to keep violent offenders detained
    - Enforce cooperation with federal immigration detainer orders
    - Support law enforcement by restoring qualified immunity and COLAs for police pensions

  • Illegal Immigration
    - End New Jersey’s sanctuary state policies
    - Fully cooperate with federal immigration enforcement
    - Address the estimated $7 billion annual burden from undocumented immigration

  • Energy Policy
    - Reject state mandates on wind and solar energy
    - Promote natural gas, nuclear, and methane for energy independence
    - Prioritize affordability over “green special interests”

  • Election Integrity
    - Require full re-registration of all voters
    - Reinstate excuse-only absentee voting
    - Implement mandatory voter ID at the polls

  • Parental Empowerment
    - Provide tax deductions for stay-at-home parents
    - Encourage policies that support traditional family structures

  • Pro-Life Advocacy
    - Support pregnancy resource centers as alternatives to abortion
    - Oppose taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood

  • Veterans & First Responders
    - Expand service access and reduce retirement burdens
    - Promote public service careers among high school students

  • Regulatory Reform
    - Roll back burdensome DEP, DOT, and DCA regulations
    - Eliminate unnecessary bureaucratic positions (e.g., “grass seed inspector”)
    - Use executive orders to override legislative inaction where possible

  • Disability Services
    - Streamline support services for people with disabilities
    - Expand access to independent living options
    - Reduce red tape across agencies handling disability services

Background and Experience

Bill Spadea is a longtime New Jersey media personality best known for hosting the popular morning show on NJ101.5, where he built a reputation for direct engagement with everyday residents and unfiltered commentary on state issues. A U.S. Marine Corps Reserve veteran, Spadea brings a disciplined, blue-collar sensibility to politics, emphasizing traditional values, working-class concerns, and deep community roots. Though he has never held elected office, his name recognition and sustained radio presence have helped him cultivate a loyal grassroots base throughout the state.

Positioning himself as a political outsider and critic of establishment figures in both parties, Spadea launched the “Common Sense Club,” a statewide activist movement pushing back against what he views as bureaucratic overreach, elitist governance, and moral decline. His gubernatorial campaign blends hardline stances on crime, immigration, and education with populist rhetoric on affordability, parental rights, and energy independence, all framed around restoring “common sense” to Trenton.