After a brief illness, Fred Schneiderman, a Cresskill businessman who had run for Congress and the U.S. Senate over the past three years, passed away this morning. He was fifty-eight.
In 2022, he ran a brief campaign against Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-Wyckoff) in the 5th district of New Jersey, but he withdrew after ballots from the military and overseas had already been sent. About 2%, or 629 votes, went to him.
Following his third-place performance at the Bergen County GOP convention last year, Schneiderman withdrew his bid for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate.
Last Tuesday, Christine Serrano Glassner, the mayor of Mendham, defeated Curtis Bashaw (200), Schneiderman (99), and Alex Zdan (80) to win a field of seven candidates with 254 votes in Bergen. Three votes went to Albert Harshaw, two to Brian Jackson, and one to Justin Michael Murphy.
When he ran for a House seat, the Cresskill merchant had been a wild card. He had hired Jamestown Associates, one of the leading Republican media companies in the country, and his campaign was being run by Kellyanne Conway, a former Trump campaign and White House advisor.
However, Schneiderman never wrote the type of personal check that some people believed he would, and he saw Pallotta gain party support in Sussex and Passaic and De Gregorio win the organization line in Bergen. More than half of the $279,842 that Schneiderman had raised as of the end of March came from a personal loan. He reportedly spent four figures a week on TV advertisements, which were at best insignificant.