Insider NJ’s Primary Day War Room (Updated 11:05AM June 6th)
11:05AM (the morning after): Here are the general election match-ups and a special edition of Insider NJ’s Who’s Up And Who’s Down: Primary Election Day Edition
11:59PM: In CD5’s GOP primary, John McCann defeated Steve Lonegan.
11:58PM: CD2 nominee Seth Grossman celebrates his victory.
11:23PM: AC Mayor Frank Gilliam looks to be out as a county committee member – challenged by the fire chief – he’s won by 4 votes at the polls but is down by 30 VBMs, according to a source.
11:19PM: In Stafford Township, conservative challengers won all seven seats, including the mayor’s seat, tonight in the GOP primary, defeating five incumbents, according to the APP.
11:07PM: With 73% reporting, John McCann currently has 52.4% while Steve Lonegan has 47.5% in the CD5 GOP primary.
11:05PM: At her victory celebration, Mikie Sherrill says ‘we need to send new leadership to Congress.’
11:01PM: Steve Lonegan crushed the PCCRO line in West Milford, taking out the local county committee and ticket candidates. A source says the local GOP chairman will be out.
10:55PM: Jay Webber proclaims ‘we did it’ at his victory celebration.
10:46PM: The local GOP will change hands in Bridgewater tonight.
10:45PM: The NRCC has endorsed Jay Webber in CD11 and Seth Grossman in CD2.
10:23PM: In CD11’s GOP primary, Jay Webber has claimed victory; Tony Ghee called Webber to concede.
10:20PM: The Union County Democrats got racked tonight on several local battlefronts.
10:16PM: Lisa McCormick released a statement following her loss in the Democratic primary: ‘We made a strong showing for someone who was widely disrespected & ignored by the poltical establishment and main stream media. I got more votes than any runner-up in last year’s gubernatorial election & I look the same as yesterday. I am not going anywhere but I would like help’
From pollster Patrick Murray:
10:14PM: HCDO chair candidate AMy DeGise released the following statement on the victories in WNY and Harrison: “Tonight, Democrats in West New York and Harrison delivered a strong statement the we will not allow our party to be taken over by the Stack machine and that we want progressive, inclusive leadership that puts everyone’s interests first, not just one city’s. I’m so excited about these tremendous victories and look forward to another win in one week when the Hudson County Democratic Organization votes for its next Chair. Congratulations to Congressman Sires, Mayor Fife and all of the great Democrats who made these victories possible.”
10:09PM: In CD4’s Democratic primary, Josh Welle beat Jim Keady.
10:05PM: Mikie Sherrill’s campaign celebrates at her headquarters:
10:03PM: First called by Harry Hurley, Seth Grossman wins the CD2 GOP primary in an unexpected victory, besting frontrunner Hirsh Singh. Grossman has 7328 to Singh’s 5930, with 72 percent in.
9:59PM: Incumbent Morris County Freeholder John Cesaro has lost.
9:56pm: In CD11’s GOP primary, With 17% reporting in Passaic County, Antony Ghee has 48.5% to closest rival Jay Webber’s 26.8%, while DeNeufville has 22%. Ghee – so far – has a comfortable lead in the Passaic portion of the district. With 50% in Morris reporting, Webber has 44.5%, DeNeuville has 34.5%, and Ghee has 10%. In Essex, with 59% reporting, its close between Ghee (36.7%) and DeNeufville (34.5%), while Webber has 29.9%.
9:49PM: Senator Bob Menendez has declared victory in the Democratic primary for US Senate against challenger Lisa McCormick
9:48PM: In CD7’s Democratic primary, Tom Malinowski has won.
9:45PM: Harry Hurley reports that Seth Grossman is leading Hirsh Singh in CD2’s GOP primary.
9:44PM: In CD11’s GOP primary, Webber is confident of victory, holding a slight lead over close-second DeNeufville, while everything is fluid at the moment.
9:36PM: Senator Jeff Van Drew has won the CD2 Democratic primary.
9:35PM: Mikie Sherrill has won the CD11 Democratic primary.
9:28PM: In Cape May County, Menendez has 46% to McCormick’s 54%, with 58% of the vote reported. In Gloucester County, Menendez has 50.06% to McCormick’s 49.94%, with 99% of the vote reported – a difference of 18 votes. In Hunterdon, with 100% reporting, McCormick has 60.12% while Menendez has 39.88%.
9:22PM: GOP Senate candidate Bob Hugin declared victory in the primary, with unofficial results showing him leading Brian Goldberg with 76% of the vote statewide.
9:20PM: The NRCC released a statement on the CD3 Democratic primary.
9:15PM: CD1 Rep. Norcross, predictably, is the winner in CD1, with 84%, to his challengers’ 16%.
9:13PM: Lisa McCormick is getting 43% in Monmouth County to Bob Menendez’s 57%. From NBC Philadelphia, Menendez has 59% with McCormick at 41% statewide, with 34% reporting as of 9:11pm.
8:57PM: Michael Wildes beat Phil Meisner in Englewood’s Democratic mayoral primary, posting a 2-1 victory, receiving 2,719 votes to 1,437 for Meisner, with one district still outstanding, according to unofficla tallies. Wildes’ ten candidates for Democratic County Committee all won in their races.
8:51PM: Mike Muller says that Senator Jeff Van Drew has won Gloucester County in the CD2 Dem primary.
8:45PM: In Linden, incumbent Mayor Derek Armstead has won the primary, beating back challenges from Gretchen Hickey and Rhashonna Cosby.
8:43PM: The HCDO held the line in West New York against Senator Stack’s insurgent slate, winning at least 50 out of 58 seats.
8:38PM: Harrison Mayor James Fife won re-election tonight, sweeping the county committee seats as well; Fife backs DeGise for HCDO chair.
8:28PM: Battling Essex Executive DiVincenzo, Senator Codey won four seats in a local Democratic Party Committee fight in his home town of Roseland.
8:19PM: In Lambertville, challenger Julia Fahl has defeated incumbent Mayor DelVecchio. ‘We put together a campaign of talking to every individual, and we built this campaign from the ground up,’ the victor told InsiderNJ. She posted on Facebook: “Thank you, Lambertville! I am so incredibly honored by your support to be the Democratic nominee for Mayor of this city we love. Tonight is just the first step in our journey to make Lambertville an even better place to live, work, and raise a family. My deepest thanks and appreciation go out to all of you who believed in our message and vision for the future. Today’s record-setting turnout shows that our city is engaged and ready to move forward as one. Thank you for sharing your ideas, your passion, and your time and resources — you are what drove me every day throughout this campaign. I thank Mayor DelVecchio for a well-fought campaign, and for his service, and look forward over the coming months to bringing our party and city back together to ensure success in November and beyond. We started this conversation about our future together, and, together, we will keep it going!”
8:16PM: The Essex VBM numbers show Sherrill burying her nearest rival by 650 votes; Sherrill received 748 VBMs while Tamara Harris received 83.
8:00PM: The polls are now closed. Stay with us as we post the results as they come in from around the state.
7:07PM: At his Totowa tavern, Peter Murphy says he wants Antony Ghee to win by 4,000 votes in the Passaic portion of CD11 – which makes up 40% of the district – while Morris officials talked of low campaign turnout, Murphy said ‘that’s unacceptable in Totowa’.
5:01PM: The numbers in heavily Democratic Lambertville – scene of a mayoral contest – at 4 p.m. were about to eclipse those of the gubernatorial election last year. At 4 p.m., turnout was 1,114 with 123 VBMs. The guv totals last year amounted to 1,373.
4:35PM: In Sussex County, its light turnout today; County Clerk Jeff Parrott said 474 mail-in ballots were cast for the primary — 277 Republican ballots, 152 Democrat and 45 unaffiliated, one of the softest in the seven years Parrott has been county clerk, according to a report from NJ Herald.
4:26PM: In Totowa, the heart of support for CD11’s Ghee – his hometown and Municipal Chair and soon-to-be-PCRO Chair Peter Murphy’s base – huddled with Murphy and LD40 Senator Corrado, discussing the voter performance in Totowa, saying its ‘pivotal’.
4:18PM: Initial reports suggest sluggish turnout in CD11, prompting one GOP Morris official to remark ‘it’s just such a low-interest election, I’m amazed’, while Democratic candidates Mikie Sherrill and Tamara Harris marshall their forces once more for a final GOTV push in their primary. Antony Ghee said he’s ‘truly happy about how we ran the campaign. I made a pledge that I would not run a negative campaign and I held true to my word, despite the lies and untruths told about me.’
4:09PM: Hudson County View’s John Heinis reports on an incident in West New York where Mayor Felix Roque allegedly arrived on the scene of a traffic stop in North Bergen this morning after a Newark municipal vehicle was pulled over for hanging campaign signs – in violation of local municipal code, authorities said.
4:06PM: Insider NJ columnist and Seton Hall Professor Dr. Matt Hale writes about the primary season in an ode to the middle.
2:47: CD2 Democratic candidate Tanzi Youngblood got into the race before the LoBo retirement and before frontrunner Van Drew announced his candidacy – and despite Van Drew having all the lines, Youngblood says she feels confident, having been able to zero in on Van Drew’s stances on guns and public pension-benefits reform.
2:27PM: GOP Senate candidate Bob Hugin released a mid-afternoon primary day video of voters from across the 21 counties – including an appearance by former GOP guv candidate Jack Ciattarelli – while Senator Menendez released a video earlier today, taking a swipe at Hugin, calling him a ‘greedy drug company CEO who ripped off cancer patients.
1:23PM: In CD7, Democratic primary candidate and frontunner Tom Malinowski embraces a new experience: seeing his own name on the ballot, telling supporters its a ‘moving and powerful thing’.
1:06PM: In a Delaware River town of Lambertville, where incumbent DelVecchio faces a challenge from newcomer Fahl, turnout is ‘very high’, according to sources on the ground on both sides.
11:58AM: Essex County Democratic Chairman Leroy Jones argues that while all the CD11 Dem candidates are ‘interesting and good’, Mikie Sherrill rises above the landscape ‘like a colossus’, and saying he hope to help heal the rift after the primary: ‘This was Tamara’s first foray to Essex County and politics in general, and I’m sure there were lessons learned, and I’m eager to talk to her to have reality checks.’
11:30AM: Running as an independent this year, incumbent Monmouth County Freeholder John Curley announced he’s filed over 400 petition signatures, saying he ‘won’t be bullied’ by county parties.
11:02AM: Rep. Bill Pascrell, facing token opposition in the CD9 primary, posted a FB pic of him and his wife Elsie voting this morning in Paterson.
10:59AM: Locked in a contentious three-way primary, Linden Mayor Derek Armstead’s campaign put out a video yesterday called ‘New Jersey Democrats Love Derek Armstead’, burnishing clips of speeches by Union County Freeholder Hudak (who’s actually in support of Hickey’s slate) and Senator Cryan. UCDC Chair Scutari – also Senator and Linden municipal chair – is backing challenger Gretchen Hickey.
10:55AM: GOP Senate candidate posted a FB pic of his vote this morning:
10:52AM: CD4 Democratic primary candidates Josh Welle and Jim Keady both voted this morning:
The Keadys have voted! I hope you will join us and vote #Keady4Congress. Let’s make history in NJ’s #FightingFourth today! Peace, JWK pic.twitter.com/QlQ4VByy11
— Jim Keady (@JWKeady) June 5, 2018
10:45AM: There’s a contested mayoral primary in Palisades Park: read this NorthJersey.com piece about the dynamics of the race.
10:06AM: Running in the CD2 Democratic primary, frontrunner Senator Jeff Van Drew says he supports Governor Murphy’s conditional veto of A3122, a schools funding bill sponsored by Senate President Sweeney, saying it’s ‘unseemly to cut from one and give to another’. Of primary opponent Youngblood, he says ‘I say this respectfully: she has a little bit to learn. Congress is a tough place, and you have to know how to navigate.’ Touting all eight county lines, Van Drew says he’s campaigned in all parts of the district.
9:57AM: Hudson County View’s John Heinis has two articles on the late game dynamics in West New York, where there’s a county committee fight that factors into the HCDO chair war. While Roque believes the local fight is ‘more like a skirmish‘, the Column A Democrats held a rally last night in support of Senator Menendez and Rep. Sires. Assemblywoman Jimenez said ‘Senator Stack: stick to your district. That’s the 33rd district, not the 32nd
district.’ Last week, Roque – a Stack ally on opposite sides this time with Sires – said the veteran congressman ‘needs to retire in peace‘. Sires, who has been pounding on doors in his home city, told Heinis he has no plans to retire. Stack/Roque back an alternative slate of 56 candidates, while Sires backs 50 candidates on the line he shares with them. See a breakdown of the WNY county committee fight here and who has the most to lose.
9:37AM: Of course, don’t forget to vote (though we’re pretty sure you’ve got it covered) – and take a listen to Bruce’s ‘Livin’ In The Future’, with the lines ‘woke up election day’ and ‘don’t worry, darlin’, no baby, don’t you fret, we’re livin’ in the future, and none of this has happened yet’. For all the candidates who don’t make it through to the general, you gave it your best shot – as Bon Jovi put it ‘who says you can’t go home?’ At then end of the day, we’re all Jerseyans.
9:05AM: Newton Mayor Wayne Levante announced this morning that he’s filed petitions to run for freeholder in Sussex County this year.
9:00AM: CD2 GOP moderate Rob Turkavage made his pitch directly to Rep. LoBiondo, landing at his front door while canvassing.
8:45aAM: The late dynamics of CD11’s GOP primary: Ghee, holding the line in Essex and Passaic, hopes ideological purity will damage Webber, who early on branded of Ghee as an opportunist, while Ghee’s Friday press conference suggests he believe DeNeufville cut into his vote.
7:45AM: There’s no battle like an intra-party battle when you’re a Jersey Democrat or Jersey Republican.
Welcome to Insider NJ’s Primary Day War Room, where we’ll house a steady stream of updates from the campaign trail throughout the day, and results later on.
Senate candidate Bob Hugin voted at 7:30am, CD2 candidate Hirsh Singh will vote at 10:30am in Lindwood, CD11 Democrat Mitch Cobert will vote at 9:45 in Morristown, CD5 GOP candidate Steve Lonegan voted at 7am, CD1 Democratic Rep. Norcross will vote at 8:45am in Camden.
First, some background on the battlegrounds.
See the latest zero hour updates over the last 24-hours from those key fights in five congressional districts. Read this primer on ten key developing contests, some of which will end outright with tonight’s results (though, does it ever really end?) while others have implications beyond. Take a look at the PDF of the primary candidate filings from the Division of Elections here.
To get started, here’s a recap of some of the races, with links, videos, and polls. To go more in-depth, at the end of each section there’s a list of tagged articles – click on it to see all the articles published on Insider NJ about that race or candidate.
SENATE: With incumbent Senator Bob Menendez and GOP Senate candidate Bob Hugin both touting every county line, the presumptive nominees will cruise to victory tonight to become the party’s statewide standard-bearer for the November elections.
- An FDU poll indicated it could be a close race, with Menendez holding a 4-point lead.
- A January Menendez internal poll showed the incumbent with a 14-point lead over ‘any’ Republican
- Self-financing former pharma executive Hugin has already poured over $7M into his campaign and prepared to spend upwards of $40M, according to reports.
- Meanwhile, the veteran Menendez – a fundraising and organizational juggernaut – contends with the headache of a fractured home-county roiled in war, for the moment.
- Watch Senator Menendez’s campaign kickoff, Hugin going on offense, Menendez’s Insider NJ interview, and state Senator Scutari making the case for Menendez:
Read articles tagged with Senator Bob Menendez and articles tagged with Bob Hugin.
Who do you prefer in the Senate race? Vote in the Insider NJ poll. Where will Democrats pick up a House seat? Vote in the Insider NJ poll. Where do Democrats have the best chance of a 2018 pickup? Vote in the Insider NJ poll.
CD11: CD11’s primary season has featured a two-party collision with candidates vying for the right to take on the other side’s nominee to replace retiring Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen.
On the Democratic side:
- In the final days of the Democratic primary, Insider NJ columnist Bob Hennelly writes that its become a contest of ‘who hates President Trump most’
- Mikie Sherrill’s campaign held a rally last night, confident of victory today, with Essex County Dem Chair Jones saying ‘this has become a crusade in the eleventh’
- Tamara Harris, saying that momentum is on her side, has positioned herself as a ‘no-nonsense progressive‘, while frontrunner Mikie Sherrill cultivated the party establishment early, and is widely expected to emerge victorious tonight.
- In recent weeks, Harris called on Sherrill to return campaign contributions from lawyers of the firm handling the Toys R Us bankruptcy, sending out a negative mail piece blasting Sherrill over the contributions, prompting Chatham Moms For Change founder Jen McNally to call for clean campaigns.
- Sherrill doubled her fundraising haul over the first quarter of 2018, bringing in $1.1M and bringing her total to $2.3M, with $1.6M COH, in the beginning of April.
- Watch Sherrill and Barlas spar on the Chamber Train, and watch Sherrill’s give her take on Webber versus Ghee:
On the GOP side:
- Peter DeNeufville was endorsed by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger last night
- Antony Ghee’s team hit the doors during the final hours.
- Webber held a number of ‘meet and greets’ over the past weekend in Morris County
- Ghee held a press conference Friday afternoon alleging that rival DeNeufville tried to deal-make to
Ghee get Ghee out of the race, and supposedly pledged to reward Ghee with a job if he backed out of the race. DeNeufville’s campaign reacted that Ghee is ‘trying to resuscitate his failing and broke campaign by distorting and mischaracterizing a meeting’, while Webber’s campaign called it ‘corruption, plain and simple‘. Allocco’s reaction was much more circumspect, saying he would ‘never have chosen to publicize the meeting’ and believes there was ‘no intended malice on the part of Peter and that he was truly exploring a path to his own victory.’
- Webber scrapped with DeNeufville with dueling mail attacks (go here, here, and here)
- Webber has the top ballot position in Morris and raised over $230K and hasn’t shied away from bating his opponents – evidenced in his challenge of DeNeufville’s ‘New Jersey Reagan Republican‘ slogan and his scrap with Sherrill over a statement from Senator Pou.
- Watch Webber go after Ghee:
Who will succeed Frelinghuysen in CD11? Vote in the Insider NJ poll. If Democrat Sherrill and Republican Webber are the nominees, who wins? Vote in the Insider NJ poll.
Read articles tagged with CD11, Rodney Frelinghuysen, Mikie Sherrill, Tamara Harris, Jay Webber, Antony Ghee, Peter DeNeufville, Martin Hewitt, and Patrick Allocco.
CD5 GOP: Movement conservative and five-time candidate Steve Lonegan and attorney John McCann
have been in a contentious primary battle to take on freshman Rep. Gottheimer; McCann has the county party lines in Bergen and Passaic. Here are a few of the latest developments:
- Lonegan called for an investigation by the FEC into a mailer sent out by the NJ Family Policy Council’s legislative arm
- Lonegan released an internal poll claiming a 19-point lead.
- Lonegan and McCann have gone after each other in recent weeks, with Lonegan sending a mail piece deriding McCann as a ‘fake Republican’ and McCann slamming Lonegan in a TV ad featuring President Trump calling Lonegan a ‘loser’.
- Running unopposed today, Rep. Gottheimer kicked off his re-election campaign on Friday, saying that governing ‘from the reasonable middle‘ is ‘what’s built this great country.’
CD4: Three Democrats are vying to take on veteran GOP incumbent Chris Smith:
- Jim Keady decided to forge ahead with a primary candidacy against Josh Welle
- Welle has the Mercer County line, and the lines in Ocean and Monmouth
- Welle has the fundraising advantage, while Keady has tried to turn his deficit into an advantage
- Candidate Mike Keeling dropped out and endorsed Keady, while Felicia Stoler is still running
- The Welle-Keady psychological underpinnings
How does CD4 ultimately play out? Vote in the Insider NJ poll.
Read articles tagged with CD4, Josh Welle, Jim Keady, Felicia Stoler, and Chris Smith.
CD7: The heated primary season began with many candidates, but heads into today with only three, for the right to take on veteran incumbent Leonard Lance in November.
- The Cook Political Report has shifted CD7 to ‘toss-up’ status, while the DCCC named Tom Malinowski to its ‘Red To Blue‘ program.
- Malinowski has $1M raised and nearly $750K COH, while Lance has $850K, according to the April numbers.
- Malinowski cemented his frontrunner status after the fall of Linda Weber, emerging victorious in Somerset, the county that had previously backed her before she suspended her campaign. He clinched another party organization from the fallen Weber: Essex.
- While Lisa Mandelblatt, Scott Salmon, and Dave Pringle exited the race, Goutam Jois and Peter Jacob opted to stay in.
- Jois unleashed a negative mailer against Malinowski
- Malinowski and Lance – in a general election preview – went head-to-head over the Syrian airstrike, with Lance COS Todd Mitchell upbraiding Malinowski, who had accused Lance of flip-flopping.
- Lance’s campaign manager dismissed the Monmouth ‘hurricane headwinds’ poll, saying it doesn’t count for much and noting that Lance won by 38K votes in 2016.
Read articles tagged with CD7, Leonard Lance, Tom Malinowski, Goutam Jois, and Peter Jacob.
CD2: GOP Rep. LoBiondo’s decision to retire opened the floodgates of hopefuls vying for the nomination to be his Republican successor, while Democrat Senator Jeff Van Drew – who had bided his time in LD1 – is the heavily-fortified favorite for the Democratic nomination, with all eight county party lines in his corner.
On the GOP side:
- Former gubernatorial candidate Hirsh Singh is the frontrunner, with the bulk of the lines – and the taking the brunt of attacks from his rivals.
- President Trump’s collision with the FBI has its counterpart in the primary, with Singh taking the pro-Trump view, saying Mueller ‘should be fired immediately‘, while Turkavage vehemently disagrees, calling Singh’s rhetoric ‘inflammatory’.
- On the campaign trail, Singh has vowed to minimize the influence of Murphy, while his rivals have lashed out at his family money.
- A judge removed Brian Fitzherbert from the ballot, who slammed Singh as the source of the challenge, with Sam Fiocchi – Singh’s main rival at this point – jumping into the fray in defense of Fitzherbert.
- A judge ruled against Turkavage’s request that he use the Cumberland slogan, despite winning the convention.
- Fiocchi has attacked Singh’s financial disclosure filing, and called on Singh to drop out of the race, while Singh’s campaign responded by highlighting Fiocchi’s lackluster fundraising.
- Watch Atlantic City Councilman Jesse Kurtz’s CD2 assessment, Hirsh Singh breaking down his Atlantic County triumph, Cumberland GOP Chair Testa’s post-convention analysis, and ACGOP Chair Davis’ post-convention analysis:
Who will win the primary for LoBiondo’s seat? Vote in the Insider NJ poll. Who is the strongest Republican to run against Van Drew in November? Vote in the Insider NJ poll.
On the Democratic side:
- As the GOP primary comes to a head today, presumptive Democratic nominee Senator Jeff Van Drew looks ahead to the general election with the bulk of county lines in his corner.
- A poll shows Van Drew leading presumptive nominee Singh by 18-points
- Watch Senator Jeff Van Drew’s Insider NJ interview:
Read articles tagged with CD2, Frank LoBiondo, Hirsh Singh, Jeff Van Drew, Sam Fiocchi, Rob Turkavage, Tanzie Youngblood, and Seth Grossman.
MORRIS COUNTY GOP FREEHOLDERS: The Morris County GOP freeholder primary comes as the political floodgates open and the party tries to fortify itself amid the backdrop of a June chairman's battle.
- Incumbent Freeholder Deb Smith and slatemates John Krickus and Stephen Shaw (replacing Hank Lyon) got the top three ballot spots, while Freeholder John Cesaro and slatemate Aura Kenny Dunn got the fourth and fifth spot.
- The five candidates, split among two teams, participated in a debate
- At a Krickus event, Freeholder Mastrangelo warned that ‘this is going to become Bergen County’, referring to the surprising number of Democratic wins last fall.
- Gators found their way into the race, as the Smith slate labeled Cesaro/Dunn as ‘part of the swamp‘
- Senator Pennacchio sent out a letter endorsing Cesaro and Dunn
Read articles tagged with Morris County, John Krickus, Deb Smith, John Cesaro, Aura Kenny Dunn, and Stephen Shaw.
LAMBERTVILLE: Mayoral primary candidate Julia Fahl insists on local positive messaging in the showdown with veteran incumbent Mayor DelVecchio, saying he’s done a good job, but ‘we could just be doing so much more’. With a lawn sign advantage of 2 to 1, Fahl looks confident and has the edge with Lambertville newcomers, but sources say while it looked like Fahl would cruise to a small but comfortable win, DelVecchio may have stabilized the race, as he attempts to avoid a similar fate that felled Belleville’s Kimble and Long Branch’s Schneider last month.
ENGLEWOOD: Mayoral primary candidate Michael Wildes was received the backing of LD37 Assemblyman Gordon Johnson, who said that Wildes ‘exemplifies the value of public service’, to succeed retiring incumbent Mayor Huttle, an allyof Wildes’ rival Phil Meisner. The two campaigns have gone head-to-head in recent weeks, with Meisner accusing Wildes of ‘running for Congress, not mayor, and Wildes accusing Meisner of only living in Englewood since 2015. Meisner has blasted Wildes’ mayoral record, and attacked his ties to President Trump.
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