NJ-11: Election to succeed Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill in Congress will be April 16

[RandySF]

The special election for Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill’s vacant seat in the House will take place April 16, the governor announced Friday.

Gov. Phil Murphy (D) issued a writ of election to fill Sherrill’s House vacancy after her resignation from Congress went into effect at 11:59 p.m. Thursday. Sherrill (D) becomes governor on Jan. 20.

Murphy directed that a special primary election be held on Thursday, Feb. 5. The deadline for primary candidates to file nominating petitions is Monday, Dec. 1, at 4 p.m.

The race to succeed Sherrill in the House is already a crowded one. At least 10 Democrats and one Republican have already announced campaigns, including Essex County Commissioner Brendan Gill, former Rep. Tom Malinowski, and Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way.



https://newjerseymonitor.com/briefs/mikie-sherrill-special-election/

[SSJVegeta]

1. Kinda sucks that Dems will still not be at their full numbers until April. But I guess thats par

for the course these days.

Im largely thinking about if we win TN7

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

2. Any DSAers in the mix, or are we stuck with another "moderate?" (n/t)

[RandySF]

3. Given the poor quality of the current DSA recruits

moderates are looking pretty good.

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

4. What the DSA are good for is scaring the elite.

Look, for example, at how the elite's mouthpiece, the New York Times, has completely lost its shit over Mamdani. In the last hundred years, the only times legislation has passed that benefits ordinary people have been the two times when the elite was terrified. First, in the aftermath of the Great Depression (coupled with the rise of Naziism and Communism) when we got the New Deal Second, when the civil unrest of the 60s begat the Great Society and its corresponding civil and voting rights expansion. Moderates from all two parties, by the way, immediately started walking both back - see what's happened to the Voting Rights Act in particular.

"Good choices" don't tend to run for office. They study up and become doctors for Médecins Sans Frontières or university professors or something. You gotta take what you can get and run with it.

Personally, I think the DSA are FAR too conservative, but at least their heart is in the right place