Eighteen independent candidates for the New Jersey Legislature submitted nominating petitions in advance of today’s 4 PM deadline, including Nina Jochnowitz, the whistleblower in a strange case involving the dumping of hundreds of pounds of pasta along a creek in Old Bridge.
Jochnowitz, a former Old Bridge council candidate, filed to run for an open State Senate seat in the 12th district.
Mary Jane Desmond, a former Bayonne city councilwoman, school board member and deputy county clerk, and Jersey school board member Noemi Velazquez are running as an independent for State Assembly in the 31st district.
Veronica Fernandez, who won the Democratic organization line for State Assembly in the 24th district but then lost it after party leaders reviewed her history of slamming Cory Booker, Phil Murphy, and Tom Malinowski, filed to run for the Assembly under the slogan “End the Corruption.” She had previously lost races for U.S. Senate, Congress, and Washington Township Committee.
Because this is the first legislative election under the new map, several candidates took advantage of a 1948 law that requires just 50 signatures on petitions.
The Libertarian Party has fielded three State Senate candidates: Shawn Peck in the 2nd district, Matthew Asman in the 6th, and Richard Byrne in the 16th. Running as Libertarian candidates for the Assembly are John Morrison in the 13th and David Diez in the 19th.
The Green Party came up with just one candidate this year: Barry Bendar for Assembly...
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