The last six years, close election after close election, have shown that your vote matters. And that is why North Jersey residents should be casting their ballots for Reps. Josh Gottheimer, Tom Malinowski and Mikie Sherrill this Tuesday if you have not done so already.
Why do we say this? Because each of these lawmakers represents what the majority of North Jersey voters want—centrists who continually work across the aisle putting New Jersey and the country before the party.
The best example of this is Rep. Gottheimer. He was one of the driving forces in getting the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill passed. He was outfront fighting the more extreme elements of his party looking to defund the police and has authored a bipartisan bill that will increase funding and training to smaller police forces throughout the U.S. He has been named the most bipartisan lawmaker for the last two years for good reason.
For Rep. Malinowski, the outside money spent by Republicans to the tune of $4 million to get Tom Kean, Jr. elected shows you how important this race is. Malinowski is the candidate in the race receiving support from both Democrats and Republicans. Kean has been an uninspiring candidate that has offered no concrete solutions to the economy, just vague references to cutting taxes and spending. Malinowski has been the candidate that has passed legislation that will lessen the load on your pocketbook, such as lowering the cost of prescription drugs by allowing Medicare to negotiate directly with the drug companies.
And Rep. Sherrill has been at the forefront of fighting for our democracy. Sherrill stood up to tell the world about the connection of Republicans aiding those who attacked the U.S. Capitol before Jan. 6, giving tours in the days leading up to the failed insurrection attempt. And she has rightly made abortion a central issue this year. If the GOP regains the House, they will laugh at their current justification about abortion just being a state’s right issue as they attempt to pass a nationwide ban.
As for their opponents, they have made a big show of the incumbents voting close to 100% of the time with Democratic leadership. We ask this—where is their record in this campaign of leadership standing up the extreme elements in our politics today? They have spoken out more for Donald Trump than Rep. Liz Cheney, a politician who truly put country before party first. And their silence was defining when Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband was attacked as conspiracy theories were spread, including by the former President himself.
We noted at the beginning of the Summer that gas prices and inflation rates would dictate the outcome in this race. Consider that Gottheimer and Sherrill pushed for the release of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve that helped lower gas prices this Summer for all of us, to the point they are at the same level as before Russia invaded Ukraine. And the inflation rate has dropped from 8.6% to 8.2%—not nearly enough but a decline nonetheless.
But issues such as crime and, in New Jersey, sex education are more prominent. While they are local issues, they rightly impact when one thinks about voting. Republicans have been much stronger on these two issues that have driven their surge in the polls—along with the economy—in the last month. We understand that impacting your vote.
Let us end with this: Vote. Vote because you believe Democrats have gone too far left. Vote because you do not want a return to MAGA Trump Republicans running the House. Vote because you want a woman’s right to choose nationwide like it is here in New Jersey. Vote for a candidate or a party because that is your beliefs. All are valid reasons this year.
Vote because that is your job in a democracy. You might not like the outcome but even in losing you win sometimes—the political agenda of the last year was driven by the issues Jack Ciattarelli campaigned on in 2021 in his losing bid to Gov. Phil Murphy.
The U.S. is facing big challenges, global challenges, that will need your voice, the voice of centrists that make up this country far more than the loud extremes of each party.
The voices that do not care if good ideas are from R’s or D’s.
That is why Rep. Gottheimer, Malinowski and Sherrill have our support. They will fight for what is best for North Jersey and have proven they will work across the aisle so Washington is not in constant gridlock.
As usual the left wing northjersey.com only supports democrats. It’s the reason I cancelled the left rag also known as the Record. When common sense returns to journalism I may consider subscribing again. Until then, I will vote for the restoration of sense to the idiocy of elitist democrats ruling our government.
This a such a blatantly Partisan Democrat publication. Certainly nothing fair and balanced 🙁
Whoever this biased failed rag of a “news” organization supports you know to vote for the opponents. Everything that is printed in this opinion section is either wrong or a lie because the people writing for this Nj . Com are either clueless hyperpartisan ideologues or they are mercenary paid agents of the state.
I might as well be reading an old issue of SOVIET LIFE magazine tor PRAVDA
Certainly not fair and balanced.
Wow, you really are not talking FACTS and the RECORD and totally miss the mark. You acknowledge that these 3 current Representatives vote around 95% with the current President and Majority Leaders in their Party. What have these votes and Policies done to our Country over the past 22 Months? I don’t need to tell you the 6 TOTALLY SELF-INFLICTED crisis’, harm and damage it has done to “We The People” of this great Country. So you would recommend that we go for a bigger and continuous dose of these Results by voting for these 3 Representatives again? History is repeating itself to any logical and objective person, except it is worse this time around. I never thought I would live to see a worse President, and a Congress controlled by his Party, than Jimmy Carter from 1976 through 1980, nor the incredible damage they did to our Country. But if you live long enough, anything is possible, and Joe Biden, his Administration and his controlled Congress have done more damage than Jimmy Carter and his Administration and Congress did about 45 Years ago, which was unthinkable.
What I state above is irrefutable because it is the FACTS and the Record, which nobody will ever escape with emotions. “Facts are stubborn things” as our 2nd President, President Adams, stated.
All, do the correct thing and put a halt to this destruction. I care too much about our Country, all of our Children, Grandchildren and Generations to come to not speak up FACTUALLY, and not emotionally, and reject the Opinion in this Article.
I would be happy to civilly Debate the author of this Opinion anytime. This is a Time of Choosing, and it is too important to be misled and misguided. History has shown us this before.
All of these candidates have used poor judgement in supporting clueless Joe Biden’s disastrous policies over 95% of the time. Those bad policies have led to a gas price spike, over 8% inflation, a mess on the border, a big increase in crime, a mess of the Afghan pullout and other bad outcomes. All of those candidates deserve to be voted out. The other candidates running against these incompetent officeholders simply can’t do worse. And if they do then we will vote them out too.
I cannot support this website and they will never get a dollar from me. I can see supporting 2of 3 candidates. I think that North Jersey News endorsed Melendez in the past which says it all. New Jersey needs a two party system. NJ News is as balanced as Colbert.
I weep for the poor folks who taught English and history to the above commenters.