Sean Spiller Archives - New Jersey Globe

Mejia’s win shows Bloomfield is moving left

February 23, 2026 4:02 pmFebruary 24, 2026 12:16 am

Bloomfield was once a middle-class, factory town, Republican stronghold that delivered huge margins to candidates of the Grand Old Party: President Ronald Reagan won it by over 6,000 votes and 64% in 1984, and Gov. Thomas Kean carried it by...

Sean Spiller will run for National Education Association president

December 13, 2025 3:20 pm

Former NJEA President Sean Spiller is launching a challenge to the incumbent president of the National Education Association in their 2026 leadership election. Spiller becomes the second candidate to challenge Princess Moss, the current NEA vice president, in a contest...

Here’s how New Jersey’s congressional and legislative districts voted in the Democratic primary for governor

July 10, 2025 10:55 am

What might this year’s Democratic gubernatorial primary tell us about future primaries for Congress and the State Legislature in New Jersey? That’s an incredibly thorny question to answer – but if one wants to attempt to do it, data on...

For Democratic primary voters, Mikie Sherrill was the consensus candidate

June 27, 2025 7:23 pmJune 30, 2025 12:11 am

When the county organizational line was struck down last year, everyone in New Jersey wanted to know: how would it affect the 2025 gubernatorial election? Were all the rules about New Jersey primaries, in which county political parties have typically...

Mapping the 2025 Hudson County war

June 20, 2025 1:29 pmJune 20, 2025 1:36 pm

Democrats in Hudson County are, to put it mildly, a fractious bunch. Not an election goes by where the local county Democratic organization isn’t consumed by infighting over a congressional seat, or a mayoralty, or a county government job, although...

Gottheimer backs Sherrill for governor

June 20, 2025 6:00 amJune 20, 2025 5:34 pm

Democratic gubernatorial nominee Mikie Sherrill has picked up the endorsement of a congressional colleague and onetime rival, Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-Tenafly), as she seeks to succeed term-limited Gov. Phil Murphy. While all six candidates in the June 10 Democratic primary...

Eighteen takeaways on the 2025 primary and where New Jersey goes from here

June 13, 2025 5:42 pmJune 14, 2025 10:59 pm

The votes are in, the primaries are decided: Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair) and former Assemblyman Jack Ciatatrelli (R-Somerville) will be headed to this November’s general election for governor. Their victories followed a primary unlike any other in state history –...