“Jeff Ballabon: Rising star among what The Forward calls "a cadre of Generation X Republican Jewish activists…”Co-chaired a June 23 fundraising dinner starring Bush in Manhattan that raked in $4 million.”

-Ward Harkavy, Village Voice, October 22 - 28, 2003

“Bush has been turning to a movement conservative, New York activist Jeff Ballabon, to expand his grass-roots outreach among Orthodox Jews and Jewish college students, two groups seen as open to the Republican message.”

                                                - E. J. Kessler, Forward, August 20, 2004

“Mr. Ballabon is also the man whom Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum called when he was headed out to the Orthodox Jewish enclave of Borough Park during the Republican National Convention last year.  The Senator’s journey took place on the same day that Mr. Ballabon helped organize a meeting between White House officials and Orthodox leaders…He’s been the driving force behind the Jewish College Republicans, a group that has caught on fast.

“Mr. Ballabon spent the climatic weeks of last year’s election pushing the Republican cause in crucial states like Florida and Pennsylvania.  According to people familiar with the campaign, he advised the White House on how to reach each of the dozens of distinct Orthodox communities - Syrian and Hungarian, Hasidic and Haredi [ultra-Orthodox].”

                                                - Ben Smith, New York Observer, March 24, 2005

“In the last weeks of the [Bush-Cheney 2004] campaign, Ballabon put his job on hold in order to spend 20-hour days with a Jewish outreach team in Florida on get-out-the-vote efforts, and coordinating by phone similar efforts in Ohio and New Jersey, which polls showed suddenly to be “in-play”...For Jeff Ballabon the satisfaction …would come… as precinct level results poured in from around the country and showed that Orthodox Jews had voted in unprecedented numbers and overwhelmingly for President Bush.

“The frenetic political activity up to and including election day was the culmination of a three-year-old vision of one man; Jeff Ballabon…”

                                                   -Jonathan Rosenblum, Mishpacha, November 24, 2004

“Ballabon basically created a new demographic this election cycle: With a groundbreaking outreach event during the Republican National Convention, he helped put his fellow Orthodox Jews on the map as a separate Republican Party constituency.  He - or rather, President Bush - was rewarded royally when as many as 80% of Orthodox Jews nationally gave their vote to the GOP ticket.”