Democrats have successfully flipped a seat in New Jersey’s General Assembly in a a deep-red district that has not elected a Democratic legislator in three decades.
Decision Desk HQ projects that Democrat Avi Schnall has won a seat in the assembly, unseating incumbent Republican Assemblyman Ned Thomson. Voters in each New Jersey legislative district choose two assembly members to represent them, so the contest was a four-way race featuring two Democrats and two Republicans.
Schnall was elected alongside incumbent Republican Assemblyman Sean Kean in the 30th district.
Oh nononono you don’t. A former republican supported by the Orthodox Jewish community, which is heavily associated with the right-wing Israeli settler movement?
Yeah, we’ll be watching how he votes.
Yeah, apparently he spent a decade running an orthodox organization and taken millions from New Jersey public schools (where he was also in a high ranking education position) to buy bullshit “religious science” science textbooks and textbooks on how to learn Yiddish (but no other language) because public schools can “loan” books to private religious schools…
Also using taxpayer money to pay for private school bussing…
And while he pushed for an end to vaccination exemptions on religious grounds for public schools, wanted an exemption for private…
NJs public schools are in shambles, and this asshat is taking as much funding as he can to give it to religious indoctrination centers and coming up with reasons to increase their enrollment.
And that’s not even getting into all the other shit that comes up in 2 seconds of an Internet search
It’s just someone else pulling a Sinema. “Vote Blue no matter who” is better than a Republican being elected. But it just leads to shit like this where the general is one Republican with an R by their name. Against one Republican who suddenly has a D next to their name…
This dude is a rightwing religious extremist who realized just putting a D by his name is enough in our political system
lakewood twp has a majority orthodox jewish population. he probably would have won a seat regardless of the label attached to his name on the ballot.
If he votes too much with the Republicans he’ll lose party support. There’s a reason party members tend to vote the same. Without party support he’ll have a hard time getting reelected in a red district unless he flips parties again.
Unfortunately, the DNC has a real problem with extreme far-right infiltrators who wear the D but only actively support fascist GOP policies and agendas.
Yeah? Examples? I can think of two senators. That’s about it.
I guess we’ll see, huh? Just hope he realizes people are paying attention. Smart ones, anyway.
Lakewood is an absolute cesspool