The evening's events will include cocktail hour, dinner, dancing, and silent auctions with the opportunity to win gear, decor, gift certificates, and other items.
Tickets: Individual - $100 | Couple - $175
Table (10) - $900
Advance registration required, no tickets sold night of event
Cocktail Hour, Dinner, Silent Auctions (FPID required), Presentations, DJ & more.
Entree Choices:
Chicken Marsala
Salmon with Lemon Dill
Pasta Primavera
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Master of Ceremonies
Kelly Ann Pidgeon, Northeast Regional Director - Women for Gun Rights.
Retired healthcare executive, mom, community volunteer, professional firearms instructor, and public speaker.
Retired after 30 years in healthcare administration, Kelly is mom, wife, caregiver to her elderly mom and is an ATHENA award recipient, and community volunteer for multiple non-profit organizations.
Kelly is also the owner of ARMED and Feminine, LLC, a company specializing in firearms training for women. Her company has trained over 2,500 students in just a few years in firearms and personal safety.
Kelly is a strong 2A advocate, is the Pennsylvania State Director and Northeast Regional Director for Women for Gun Rights, and is often a speaker at public events and rallies. She also has a YouTube channel and multiple social media forums for spreading the 2A word.
She is a certified USCCA and NRA instructor and an ICE certified Defensive Firearms Coach. She holds Bachelor and Master degrees from the University of Pittsburgh.
Speakers
Anthony Colandro, "Capitalist Marksman," NRA Board Member, Gun for Hire Radio podcast.
Anthony Colandro is the Owner of Gun For Hire Woodland Park Range, and the host of the hit podcast show “Gun For Hire Radio” which has over one million listeners nationwide. He is a fervent believer in, and staunch advocate for, the “Right to Carry”. He is the Recording Secretary of ANJRPC and has helped to defeat New Jersey legislative attacks against the Rights of American citizens during 2013, and beyond. Anthony has also been on the NRA Board since 2019.
Along his professional journey, Anthony became an NRA Master Training Counselor. Only a select few enjoy membership of this great honor, in this very small fraternity from the USA! Anthony continued to nurture firearms enthusiasts and newcomers alike. He worked out of up to seven ranges during the same period of time in the tri state area, and simultaneously cultivated and refined his own business.
Anthony is a major contributor to law enforcement causes and civilian benefit foundations, throughout New Jersey. All new firearms and duty rigs for the entire Woodland Park Police department were purchased by Anthony, and he hosts and supports countless other philanthropic ventures throughout the area. He is also known as the guy who never says “no!”
A passionate, aggressive and outspoken defender of the Second Amendment and vigilant civil rights advocate for over 30 years in the battleground State of New Jersey, Anthony has been invited to speak for various TV and radio programs. He can often be observed in the State House speaking his mind when he feels that the people need a bellicose liaison. He will “Stand Strong” against the throes of adversity to the endowment by our creator of “certain unalienable Rights…”
Anthony is also the National Rifle Association Election Volunteer Coordinator. He supports NRA competitive activities including, Women on Target®, Eddie Eagle®, and the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund. Anthony has been an NRA Certified Instructor for over 20 years and he is also an NRA Law Enforcement Instructor. In addition to being an NRA Ring of Freedom and Heritage Society Member, Anthony also belongs to the Whittington Center Trailblazer #353.
Anthony enjoys contributing his time, attention and prosperity to numerous professional and civic organizations, and he is very, very active in supporting humanitarian causes to which he is deeply committed.
Joe LoPorto, Director - Civil Liberties Policy Research Center of New Jersey, Director of Legal Operations - NJFOS
Joe is a passionate grassroots activist, freelance writer and speaker. He has testified numerous times before the NJ legislature, written articles and policy papers on a variety of Second Amendment, civil liberties and civil rights issues and is a regular guest on Gun For Hire radio. He is a Director of the Civil Liberties Policy Research Center of New Jersey, a state level think tank.
Joe spent 14 years on Wall Street as an advisor to large, multinational, institutional clients. He then owned a small business in New Jersey for over a decade. He has served on a variety of nonprofit and educational institutions’ boards and municipal boards and is volunteer first responder.
He is a member of the National Rifle Association, a life member of the Second Amendment Foundation and a member of the Federalist Society.
Joe is lifelong resident of New Jersey. He is a graduate of St. Peter’s University and Seton Hall University School of Law. He lives with his wife and four children in Bergen County.
Barbara Holstein - Vice Chair Sussex County GOP, Women for Gun Rights delegate.
I was born and raised in West Virginia my Dad worked in the coal mines and my Mom for the telephone company. I grew up with shotguns in a glass door gun cabinet in our living room - they were part of our home. My grandfather and father hunted deer and turkey, later my stepfather was also hunter, pro second amendment, and probably the first Republican I knew in my life. Guns were a part of my childhood, and I never thought to think that wasn’t normal.
I ran for Board of Education in 2020, won and served until 3/2024. In June of 2023, I answered a 13th hour request to run for Vice Chair of SCGOP and won and currently serve. In June 2024, I ran in a contested primary for township committee and won. I then faced a write in challenge on the November ballot by the loser of the primary, and won again thankfully a three year term.
Today, it seems in NJ we take one step forward and two backwards. In fact, the phrase must have originated here in NJ! However, underdogs can win. I did. I got out and went to meet voters. The protests brought people together, the rally’s and parades brought people to the road side and showed them they were not alone!
Early Vote Action is very simply getting out and meeting voters where they are in their daily life. It’s extending a handshake and smile and saying to them are you happy with life in NJ today? Are you registered to vote? Do you vote? Here is how to register. Here is how to change your affiliate party. Here is how to vote. Educating people is key to winning their support and saving our state and country.
On a side note - I work full time as an assistant transportation administrator for a school district in Morris County and reside in Sussex County, NJ.
