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NJ’s Assembly Race – Only a Few Opportunities to Protect First Amendment Rights

First – here is my unpopular opinion – I suggest that you withhold your vote from anyone who is either quiet about their position on IHRA, who is an incumbent who is on the IHRA bill in the assembly or is known to be supportive of the bill. That means in most of the LDs across NJ there is no way to vote in favor of our First Amendment protected free speech rights – when it comes to opposing US policy in support of Israel.

For the purposes of this effort – this editor has precluded any consideration for Republican candidates. Their lord and master in front of 800 US generals called for military attack on our cities and a war against an enemy from within – the Republicans basically are allied with a massacre.

All of those democrats that are supportive or silent on IHRA in effect also support the Trump plans to harm, attack physically, incarcerate illegally and otherwise desrtoy us. An IHRA supporting Democrat might as well have “I Love Trump” tattooed to their foreheads because supporting IHRA aids the Trump crack down. Most NJ Democrat candidates for Assembly are in this category unfortunately. Here is the worksheet with the details as known as of today. I am reaching out yet again to those whose positions are unknown and will update this article with any corrections identified.

DO NOT CAST VOTES FOR REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES

Assume the Republicans are fascist based upon their association with Jack Ciattarelli and Trump. Do not vote for Republicans in the NJ 2025 elections at any level.

CONSIDER SUPPORT FOR CANDIDATES WHO DEFEND OUR FREE SPEECH RIGHTS

Fortunately there are as of now 15 candidates for those in the respective LDs to defend free speech protections in NJ. We are hoping that by the time election rolls around there could be more from the unknown list who make their positions known. Please consider supporting these candidates – links have been added to their campaign sites:

OfficeAgainst IHRA click name for campaign siteOfficeAgainst IHRA
District 1Carolyn RushDistrict 28Chigozie U. Onyema
District 5Robin Brownfield (Green Party)District 32Ravinder Bhalla
Katie Brennan
District 7Balvir Singh (i)District 34Carmen Morales (i)
Michael Venezia (i)
District 12Freshta TaebDistrict 35Alaa Abdelaziz (i)
District 14Steven Welzer (Green Party)District 37Shama Haider (i)
District 23Guy Citron
Tyler Powell
District 39Donna Abene

DO NOT CAST VOTES FOR DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES WHO ARE ON THE IHRA BILL

In the Assembly there are currently 59 out of 80 assembly members on the Asm A3558 bill which will lead to fierce repression of those of us (this editor included) who are opposed to US support for genocidal Israel. 34 incumbent Democrats out of a total of 52 Democrats in the Assembly are sponsors or co-sponsore (67% of elected Democrats) and 24 of the 28 elected Assembly Republicans are on the bill (86% of elected Republicans). Does that sound like an opposition party ? These Democrats are the ones telling us to trust them to fight Trump and they are united on an overwhelming basis with Trump and Republicans in the Assembly in support of fascist definition of anti-semitism – being pushed by Israel – so that Israel can shut down any and all criticism. Who else is trying to do that to us? Trump! Why are Democrats helping? Ask them!

The following are the Democratic Party incumbents who are running for re-election and supporting fascism. FightBackBetterI recomment that you do not vote for them. You should not vote for Republican fascists either. If there is no independent or Green Party candidate (there are only about 3 all together) this editor recommends that you either do not vote for the candidate or write in – “Free Speech” or somesuch. If you are a candidate who supports our repression you do not deserve our vote period – that is FightBackBetter position.

LDOn Bil;LDOn Bill
District 3Simmons, Heather
Bailey, David, Jr.
District 18Robert J. Karabinchak (i)
Sterley S. Stanley (i)
District 4Dan Hutchison (i)
Cody Miller (i)
District 19Yvonne Lopez (i)
District 5William F. Moen Jr. (i)
William W. Spearman (i)
District 20Annette Quijano (i)
District 6Greenwald, Louis D.
Kane, Melinda
District 22Linda Carter (i)
James Kennedy (i)
District 7Murphy, Carol A.District 27Rosy Bagolie
Collazos-Gill, Alixon
District 11Margie M. Donlon (i)
Luanne M. Peterpaul (i)
District 31William Sampson (i)
District 14Wayne P. DeAngelo (i)
Tennille R. McCoy (i)
District 36Clinton Calabrese (i)
Gary Schaer (i)
District 15Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (i)
Anthony S. Verrelli (i)
District 37Ellen Park (i)
District 16Mitchelle Drulis (i)
Roy Freiman (i)
District 38Lisa Swain (i)
P. Christopher Tully (i)

WITHHOLD SUPPORT FROM DEMOCRATIC PARTY CANDIDATES WHO HAVE NO POSITION ON IHRA

The following are the ones that this edftor has not been able to pin down as having position on IHRA – most have been asked already and have ignored. We will make another attempt at contacting them at their Facebook campaign page but we are not too hopeful that they will speak up now. If you are in these LDs the suggestion is to reach out to them and ask for their position – explaining that you are not trusting anyone’s silence on this top level of importance issues. If you get an answer from one of them opposing IHRA please provide details to this editor.

OfficeSilent / UnknownOfficeSilent / Unknown
District 1Carol SaboDistrict 25Steven Pylypchuk
Marisa Sweeney
District 2Joanne Famularo
Maureen Rowan
District 26Michael Mancuso
Walter Mielarczyk
District 8Andrea Katz (i)
Anthony Angelozzi
District 28Cleopatra Tucker (i)
District 9Lisa Bennett
Rosalee Keech
District 29Eliana Pintor Marin (i)
Shanique Speight (i)
District 10Janine Bauer
Gigi Esparza
District 30Joanne Debenedictis
District 11Felicia Simmons (We the People)District 31Jerry Walker
District 12Kyler DineenDistrict 33Gabriel Rodriguez (i)
Larry Wainstein
District 13Jason Corley
Vaibhav Gorige
Eduardo Castillo (Write-in)
District 34
District 17Joseph Danielsen (i)
Kevin Egan (i)
District 35Alaa Abdelaziz (i) Kenyatta Stewart
District 20Ed RodriguezDistrict 39Andrew LaBruno
District 21Vincent Kearney
Andrew Macurdy
District 40Ron Arnau
Jeffrey Gates
District 24Steve Barratt
Eugene Grinberg

WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED!