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Menendez endorses Joshi for Edison mayor

April 8, 2021 12:17 pmApril 8, 2021 2:51 pm

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez had endorsed Sam Joshi for the Democratic nomination for mayor of Edison, New Jersey’s fifth-largest municipality. “I am proud to be endorsing Sam Joshi in the Edison mayoral primary,” said Menendez, the state’s...

Gopal, Mukherji back Joshi in Edison Democratic mayoral primary

April 7, 2021 9:49 pmApril 7, 2021 9:50 pm

All three South Asian Americans in the New Jersey legislature – Senate Majority Conference Leader Vin Gopal (D-Long Branch), Assembly Judiciary Committee Chairman Raj Mukherji (D-Jersey City) and Assemblyman Sterley Stanley (D-East Brunswick) tonight endorsed Sam Joshi in the Edison...

Middlesex commissioners didn’t want to run with Bhagia

April 7, 2021 9:36 pmApril 8, 2021 9:16 am

Three Democratic candidates for Middlesex County Commissioner – incumbents Ronald Rios and Shanti Narra and Commissioner-designate Chanelle McCullum – have endorsed Sam Joshi in the upcoming Edison Democratic primary. The three officials said they wrote to the Democratic county chairman,...

Diegnan, Karabinchak pull endorsement of Bhagia, back Joshi for mayor

April 7, 2021 7:50 pmApril 7, 2021 9:49 pm

Two Democratic lawmakers have rescinded their support of Mahesh Bhagia for mayor of Edison, backing Sam Joshi. Endorsements from State Sen. Patrick Diegnan (D-South Plainfield) and Assemblyman Robert Karabinchak follow an announcement today that Middlesex County Democratic Chairman Kevin McCabe...

Murphy, McCabe endorse Joshi for mayor of Edison

April 7, 2021 6:16 pmApril 7, 2021 6:19 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy is taking sides in Edison, endorsing Sam Joshi for the Democratic nomination for mayor of New Jersey’s fifth largest municipality. Murphy’s endorsement follows a decision by Middlesex County Democratic Chairman Kevin McCabe to award the organization line...

Joshi gets organization line for mayor in Edison as Middlesex Democrats distance themselves from Bhagia

April 7, 2021 3:56 pmApril 7, 2021 9:47 pm

An active investigation into a racist 2017 flyer has created a seismic shift in the Edison mayoral race, with Middlesex County Democrats are giving their organization line to Sam Joshi, bypassing the Democratic municipal chairman, Mahesh Bhagia. Bhagia has been...

McCabe: ‘The time for burying our heads in the sand is over’

March 26, 2021 6:10 pmMarch 29, 2021 1:07 am

OPINION The scourge of racism in our state is one that too many people do not want to acknowledge. It has permeated many facets of our lives. Since 2016, partisan political discourse has devolved and has served as the vehicle...