Ex-Bergen Record reporter will challenge Corrado for Senate

Ridgewood Deputy Mayor Michael Sedon will seek the Democratic nomination for State Senate in the 40th district against Senate Minority Conference Leader Kristin Corrado (R-Totowa).

Sedon was a former reporter for The (Bergen) Record’s weekly newspaper, the Ridgewood News, and the Staten Island Advance before entering local politics.  He now works as a freelance journalist and is serving his second term on the Ridgewood Village Council.

This is Sedon’s second bid for the legislature.  He ran for the Assembly in 2019 but withdrew from the race in August and replaced on the ticket by former Bergen County Freeholder Julie O’Brien.

Democrats are also running another Ridgewood resident, Genny Allard, for an Assembly seat.

Allard was featured in a television ad for the re-election of Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-Wyckoff) in 2020 after the congressman helped her son, who had been placed in a medically-induced coma while fighting COVID-19, receive the then-experimental Remdesivir drug.

A former Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor, Allard has taught law and justice at Bergen County Technical Schools and runs a private college admission consulting firm.

The second Assembly candidate to take in incumbents Christopher DePhillips (R-Wyckoff) and Kevin Rooney (R-Wyckoff) is expected to be picked by the Passaic County Democratic organization.

No legislative district in the state has gone longer without electing a Democrat than the 40th, which includes parts of Bergen, Passaic, Morris and Essex counties.