Saily Avelenda Archives - Page 5 of 6

Avelenda is new Democratic State Committee executive director

February 9, 2020 4:26 pmFebruary 9, 2020 5:51 pm

Saily Avelenda, a progressive activist who helped found NJ 11th for Change and pushed House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen into retirement, is the new executive director of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee. Tolulope Kevin Olasanoye, who took the...

Saily Avelenda: Don’t politicize #MeToo

January 17, 2020 1:51 pmJanuary 17, 2020 4:31 pm

A progressive leader who ran Democratic State Chairman John Currie’s re-election campaign warned against politicizing the #MeToo movement Friday. “If you weaponize #MeToo through politics, you are serving the patriarchy. You are not serving women. You are not serving victims,”...

Saily Avelena, Executive Director of NJ 11th for Change, will be campaign manager for John Currie's re-election bid/

Avelenda to manage Currie re-election bid

November 26, 2019 9:22 amNovember 26, 2019 1:04 pm

Saily Avelenda, a progressive leader who played a key role in forcing Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen into retirement, will serve as campaign manager for Democratic State Chairman John Currie’s re-election campaign. The executive director of NJ 11th for Change, the grassroots...

Grassroots groups seek Norcross probe

May 30, 2019 11:20 amMay 30, 2019 1:14 pm

A dozen grassroots organizations are asking federal and state prosecutors to investigate South Jersey Democratic leader George Norcross and his brothers, Rep. Donald Norcross (D-Camden) and attorney Phil Norcross, for their involvement in a tax subsidies awarded by the state...

Sue Altman to lead New Jersey Working Families

May 6, 2019 3:41 pmMay 6, 2019 3:41 pm

New Jersey Working Families has named Sue Altman, a staunch critic of Camden County Democrats, to serve as their new state director. She will replace Analilia Mejia, who left earlier this year to become the national political director of Bernie...

Groups seek resignations at EDA

April 9, 2019 9:46 amApril 9, 2019 9:52 am

A group of nearly sixty grassroots, community, labor and environmental organizations are calling for the resignation of all eight members of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority board of directors following a State Comptroller audit that found deficiencies in oversight...

Murphy, activist groups encouraged by first EDA hearing

March 28, 2019 3:43 pmMarch 28, 2019 9:07 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy and activist groups seeking reforms at the Economic Development Authority scored an early win Thursday, when a whistleblower testifying before the governor’s EDA task force said Jackson Hewitt lied on an application seeking an award from the...