Mahesh Bhagia Archives - New Jersey Globe

Andy Kim endorses Joshi for Edison mayor

April 17, 2021 7:18 pm

Rep. Andy Kim (D-Moorestown), the only Korean American to represent New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives, is backing Sam Joshi for the Democratic nomination for mayor of Edison. “Sam Joshi is the kind of leader that Edison, and...

In Edison, Booker endorses Joshi for mayor

April 8, 2021 5:25 pm

U.S. Senator Cory Booker has endorsed Sam Joshi for mayor of Edison, giving the 31-year-old councilman the support of two United States Senators, the governor of New Jersey, the Senate President and Assembly Speaker, one of the most powerful members...

Sweeney joins Joshi’s Edison bandwagon

April 8, 2021 2:17 pmApril 8, 2021 2:22 pm

Senate President Steve Sweeney is backing Sam Joshi to become the next mayor of Edison. There is no one better to deliver for his residents than Sam Joshi and I am proud to endorse him for mayor and to support...

Joshi picks up endorsement of Assembly Speaker

April 8, 2021 1:42 pmApril 8, 2021 1:59 pm

Edison mayoral candidate Sam Joshi today won the endorsement of Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin, the latest in a drum beat of support he’s received after securing the Democratic organization line for the June primary. “I have known Sam Joshi for...

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,...