New Jersey Working Families Announces New Congressional Endorsements

New Jersey Working Families Endorses Incumbent Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman in CD 12 and Newcomer Hector Oseguera in CD 8.

Camden, NJ: Today, New Jersey Working Families has announced two new endorsements in congressional races ahead of the July 7th Primary. NJWF has added incumbent Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (CD-12), and Hector Oseguera (CD 8) to its list of progressive candidates it has backed. Rep.Coleman is running to represent New Jersey for a fourth term as a U.S. Representative after serving in the New Jersey State Assembly from 1998 until 2015. Newcomer Hector Oseguera works as an Anti-Money Laundering Analyst protecting the credibility of our financial system. He’s running on a platform that includes affordable housing, overturning Citizen’s United, and passing a Green New Deal.

“As the first Black woman to represent New Jersey in Congress, Bonnie Watson Coleman has been a champion on criminal justice reform and is a cosponsor of the Green New Deal,” said Sue Altman, New Jersey Working Families Director. “Rep. Watson Coleman continues to serve as one of NJ’s most senior, respected leaders, and is a tireless advocate for the people of New Jersey. NJWF is proud to endorse both her and Hector Oseguera to represent our state in Washington. America needs leaders with the vision and the passion to enact transformative change, and Hector Oseguera is one of those leaders. Hector will bring activism, transparency, public accountability, and justice-centered politics to DC.”

The Working Families Party is a grassroots political party that recruits, trains, and elects the next generation of progressive leaders to office. In New Jersey, they’ve helped win important fights such as the fight to raise the minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour, progressive taxation policies so that the rich pay their fair share, and making sure workers have earned sick leave, which just passed in 2019.

NJWF has already endorsed Arati Kreibich (CD-5), Amy Kennedy (CD-2), Sean Spiller, who was recently elected Mayor of Montclair, Bill Irwin for Mayor of Piscataway, and Ralph Johnson, Nikki Tillman, and Laura Leibowitz for Piscataway Council. In the race for the Cumberland County Board of Chosen Freeholders, NJWF has endorsed Jack Surrency, Donna Pearson, and Tracey Wells-Huggins.

Nationally, the WFP helped elect longtime tenants organizer and progressive champion Jumaane Williams as Public Advocate in New York City, swelled the ranks of Chicago city council progressive caucus, made history in Philadelphia by electing Kendra Brooks, helped make Stephen Mason the first Black mayor of Cedar Hill, Texas, helped insurgent Latinx LGBTQ social worker Candi CdeBaca oust a longtime incumbent on the Denver City Council, and elected other council members from Morgantown, W.Va., to Phoenix, Ariz.