Shavonda Sumter Archives - New Jersey Globe

Coughlin creates two new Assembly committees

January 17, 2020 12:07 pmJanuary 17, 2020 2:37 pm

Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin has created two new committees, splitting the Health and Senior Services and the Housing and Community Development panels. Herbert Conaway, Jr. (D-Delran) will chair the Assembly Health Committee and Valerie Vainieri Huttle (D-Englewood) will lead the...

Currie re-elected Dem state chairman

January 11, 2020 12:16 pmJanuary 13, 2020 10:37 am

Democratic State Chairman John Currie was reappointed without much drama Saturday morning, officially bringing an end to an internal feud that consumed the party for much of the last year. Essex County Democratic Chairman LeRoy Jones began publicly mulling a...

Holley claims Murphy playing politics on voting rights bill signing

December 17, 2019 9:36 pmDecember 17, 2019 10:25 pm

Assemblyman Jamel Holley claimed Gov. Phil Murphy excluded him from a bill signing for a measure restoring voting rights to persons on probation or parole. “They invited me to get a pen, but all the other main sponsors are a...

Assembly passes bill granting voting rights to persons on parole, probation

November 25, 2019 2:09 pm

The Assembly advanced a bill providing voting rights to persons on parole or probation Monday. It passed 46-23. Under current law, New Jersey strips voting rights from incarcerated persons and those on probation or parole. The law, sponsored primarily by...

LBC to introduce legislation creating reparations task force

November 13, 2019 12:24 pm

The Legislative Black Caucus will introduce legislation creating the New Jersey Reparations Task Force Thursday. The bill will be introduced by State Sens. Ron Rice and Sandra Cunning and Assemblywomen Shavonda Sumter and Britnee Timberlake, along with other members of...

Sumter ditched as Assembly Majority Conference Leader

November 7, 2019 11:06 amNovember 7, 2019 9:05 pm

Shavonda Sumter (D-Paterson) has been dumped as Assembly Majority Conference Leader, the New Jersey Globe has learned. She will be replaced by Assemblywoman Annette Quijano (D-Elizabeth), the chair of the Assembly Judiciary Committee. Sumter is losing her post after bucking...

Currie seeks censure of Paterson councilman who said developers tried to ‘Jew us down’

September 12, 2019 2:59 pmSeptember 12, 2019 3:50 pm

Passaic County Democratic Chairman John Currie has called on the Paterson City Council to censure Michael Jackson for saying that developers tried to “Jew us down” on the price of the Hinchcliffe Stadium development project. “I am proud of New...