On Tuesday, September 24, 2019, the New Jersey State Fraternal Order of Police Board of Directors met and voted to endorse legislative candidates listed below for the November 5th Election. The entire NJ State Assembly has all 80 seats up for grabs. Currently, there are 54 Dems and 26 Reps in the Assembly. At the time of the legislative committee meeting, on September 11th, the FOP Legislative Committee had made Assembly recommendations and only one special State Senate election to be considered. However, since that meeting, Senator Anthony Bucco of the 25th Legislative District died unexpectedly of a heart attack. No decision for replacement in that Senate seat has been recommended at this time.
President Robert W. Fox said, “We are pleased with the good work our Legislative Committee members have done. They have recommended exceptional candidates who support law enforcement and have the interest of our brothers and sisters at heart. “
Listed are the endorsements for the Assembly races and the one State Senate special election. In total 53 Democrats and 11 Republicans have been endorsed.
STATE SENATE
One special election will be held in the 1st Legislative District (All of Cape May and Parts of Atlantic and Cumberland Counties) to complete the unexpired term of Jeff Van Drew who resigned on January 2, 2019 following his election to Congress. On January 15th Assemblyman Bob Andrezejczak was sworn in to replace Van Drew. The Republican challenger is Michael Testa. The Committee recommends endorsing Andrezejczak.
*** Incumbent candidates are highlighted in bold.
LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS CANDIDATES
District 1 R. Bruce Land (D)
Matthew Milam (D)
District 2 Vincent Mazzeo (D)
John Armato (D)
District 3 John Burzichelli (D)
Adam Taliaferro (D)
District 4 Paul Moriarty (D)
Gabriela Mosquera (D)
District 5 William Spearman (D)
William Moen Jr. (D)
District 6 Louis Greenwald (D)
Pamela Lampitt (D)
District 7 Herbert Conaway Jr. (D)
Carol Murphy (D)
District 8 Gina LaPlaca (D)
Mark Natale (D)
District 9 No endorsement
District 10 No endorsement
District 11 Eric Houghtaling (D)
Joann Downey (D)
District 12 Ronald Dancer (R)
Robert Clifton (R)
District 13 Serena DiMaso (R)
Gerard Scharfenberger (R)
District 14 Wayne DeAngelo (D)
Dan Benson (D)
District 15 Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D)
Anthony Verrelli (D)
District 16 Andrew Zwicker (D)
Roy Freiman (D)
District 17 Joseph Egan (D)
District 18 Nancy Pinkin (D)
Robert Karabinchak (D)
District 19 Craig Coughlin (D)
Yvonne Lopez (D)
District 20 Annette Quijano (D)
Jamel Holley (D)
District 21 Jon Bramnick (R)
Nancy Munoz (R)
District 22 Linda Carter (D)
James Kennedy (D)
District 23 No endorsement
District 24 Harold Wirths (R)
District 25 Darcy Dreger (D)
Anthony Bucco, Jr. (R)
District 26 No endorsement
District 27 Mila Jasey (D)
District 28 Ralph Caputo (D)
District 29 Eliana Pintor Marin (D)
Shanique Speight (D)
District 30 Sean Kean (R)
District 31 Nicholas Chiaravalloti (D)
Angela McKnight (D)
District 32 Angelica Jimenez (D)
Pedro Mejia (D)
District 33 Annette Chiaparro (D)
Raj Mukherji (D)
District 34 Thomas Giblin (D)
District 35 Benjie Wimberly (D)
Shavonda Sumter (D)
District 36 Clinton Calabrese (D)
Gary Schaer (D)
District 37 Valerie Vainieri Huttle (D)
Gordon Johnson (D)
District 38 Lisa Swain
P. Christopher Tully
District 39 Holly Schepisi
District 40 No endorsements