Gottheimer raises $100k for Assembly Democrats

Auditions for the 2025 Democratic nomination for governor continues, with Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-Wyckoff) raising $100,000 for the Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee on Thursday.

The high-dollar event included Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin, Democratic State Chairman/Essex County Democratic Chairman LeRoy Jones, Jr., Middlesex County Democratic Chairman Kevin McCabe, Bergen County Democratic Chairman Paul Juliano, and Somerset County Democratic Chairman Peg Schaffer as special guests.

Gottheimer, the Human Fundraising Machine, raised $100,000 for the Senate Democrats last month.

Other potential gubernatorial candidates are also pitching in for the upcoming mid-term elections.  Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair) has also raised money for Democratic legislative candidates this year.  A super PAC allied with Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, Coalition for Progress, has committed to spending money to boost Democrats this year; the PAC has $6.5 million in the bank.

“I’m honored to support Speaker Coughlin and the Assembly Democrats who are fighting every day to protect our Jersey Values — from lowering property taxes for seniors and families to protecting choice and first responders to killing the Congestion Tax,” said Gottheimer.  “This November is all about commonsense over extremism, and that’s how we will win big.”

The Gottheimer event was held at the Elberton each Club in Long Branch, just half a mile from the site of a small cottage where President James Garfield died in September 1881, 80 days after being shot by an assassin at a Washington, D.C. train station.  The killer was Charles Guiteau, a political gadfly who had been seeking a job in the Garfield administration without success.

To escape Sweltering temperatures in Washington, the 49-year-old Garfield was moved to a seaside cottage in Elberon; in one day, local residents volunteered to lay about a half a mile of railroad tracks so that the president’s train could travel from the Elberon train station directly to the front door of the cottage so Garfield wouldn’t need to travel by stagecoach.

Garfield was one of two presidents to die in New Jersey; the other was Caldwell-born Grover Cleveland, who died at his home at 15 Hodge Road in Princeton.