Avi Schnall Archives - New Jersey Globe

Coughlin shuffles committees as Legislature gears up

January 30, 2026 3:36 pm

Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin has shifted the Democratic majority on the powerful Assembly Budget Committee from 10-5 to 11-4 after Republicans lost five seats in last year’s election. Coughlin added Democrats Al Abdelaziz (D-Paterson) and Avi Schnall (D-Lakewood) to the...

Twenty takeaways on the 2025 Blue Wave and what comes next

November 7, 2025 3:16 pmNovember 21, 2025 12:11 am

Mikie Sherrill beats Jack Ciattarelli by more than 13 points. Democrats gain as many as five seats in the State Assembly, giving them their largest Assembly majority since the Watergate wave of 1973. Towns across the state that voted for...

Republican Kean, Democrat Schnall re-elected in Lakewood-based LD30

November 4, 2025 9:16 pmNovember 4, 2025 11:55 pm

Assemblymen Sean Kean (R-Wall) and Avi Schnall (D-Lakewood) secured re-election on Tuesday, the New Jersey Globe projects, meaning the deep-red, heavily Orthodox Jewish district will once again send a split delegation to the Assembly. In 2023, Lakewood’s Orthodox Jewish leaders...

National organization of state troopers backs all incumbent legislators, will stay out of N.J. governor’s race

October 9, 2025 12:56 amOctober 9, 2025 12:57 pm

The National Troopers Coalition will remain neutral in the New Jersey governor’s race and has endorsed every incumbent in contests for the State Assembly. In the two split districts, the organization representing over 43,000 state troopers from 47 groups nationwide...

Democrats switch candidates in 30th, leaving Sean Kean alone and fixating on Schnall

August 29, 2025 4:13 pmSeptember 2, 2025 1:12 am

In a move that appears to assure Assemblyman Sean Kean (R-Wall) another term, Democrats are focusing on winning a second term for Assemblyman Avi Schnall (D-Lakewood) and not making a play for a second seat in the heavily Republican 30th...

PBA endorses incumbents, no challengers, in Assembly races

August 26, 2025 12:31 pmAugust 26, 2025 1:06 pm

The New Jersey State Policemen’s Benevolent Association has endorsed incumbents in the most competitive legislative races, with support of the state’s largest law enforcement union going to Democrats in the 3rd and 11th districts and Republicans in the 21st district;...

AFL-CIO backs mostly incumbents from both parties

June 18, 2025 1:32 pm

The New Jersey AFL-CIO has endorsed a number of incumbent members of the State Assembly from both parties, including most of the competitive districts, but took a pass on the 21st and moved against incumbents in the 39th. The AFL-CIO...