Shama Haider Archives - New Jersey Globe

Gopal is new chair of AAPI Legislative Caucus

April 27, 2023 1:00 pm

State Sen. Vin Gopal (D-Long Branch) announced today that he will assume the chairmanship of the Asian-American and Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus, a coalition of seven Asian American state senators and assemblymembers serving in the New Jersey Legislature. He’ll take...

Ten election bills cleared an Assembly committee. What do they do?

May 13, 2022 5:51 pmMay 16, 2022 12:41 am

A raft of ten bills concerning New Jersey’s elections, including seven spearheaded by Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin (D-Woodbridge), passed the Assembly State and Local Government Committee yesterday. If ultimately signed into law, the bills could make important changes to how...

Palisades Park Democrats decline to back mayor for re-election

March 10, 2022 10:44 amMarch 10, 2022 11:57 am

The Palisades Park Democratic County Committee will not support the re-election of Mayor Christopher J. Chung and instead voted to support Paul Kim, a councilman, as their mayoral candidate. Chung told the New Jersey Globe that he would run off...

Legislature swears in 21 new members as 220th session begins

January 11, 2022 4:09 pmJanuary 17, 2022 11:08 pm

The New Jersey State Legislature swore in 21 new members today to mark the beginning of the 220th legislative session, following last year’s election that saw Republicans make significant gains across the state. Among the new members are three Asian...

Johnson, Haider, Park win in the 37th district

November 2, 2021 8:03 pmDecember 21, 2021 10:17 am

The New Jersey Globe is projecting that Assemblyman Gordon Johnson (D-Englewood) has been elected to the 37th legislative district’s Senate seat, and that Shama Haider and Ellen Park have won their first terms in the Assembly. They defeated Republicans Michael...

Andy Kim’s new PAC endorses six candidates for ’21 election

September 29, 2021 12:59 pmSeptember 29, 2021 1:02 pm

A political action committee launched by Rep. Andy Kim (D-Moorestown) earlier this year to help Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders running for public office has announced their first wave of endorsements: Edison mayoral candidate Sam Joshi and five Democratic candidates...

Women legislators hard-pressed to increase their numbers in 2021

August 11, 2021 11:38 amAugust 11, 2021 11:40 am

The New Jersey state legislature, where all four legislative leaders and nearly 60% of all legislators are white men, is a body that has room to grow more diverse. But based on the candidates running this November, the 2021 elections...