New Jersey Working Families Announces New Endorsements

New Jersey Working Families Has Made Endorsements In Middlesex and Cumberland Counties

Camden, NJ: Today, New Jersey Working Families has announced an additional slate of endorsements in local seats in Middlesex and Cumberland County. They’ve endorsed Bill Irwin for Mayor of Piscataway and Ralph Johnson, Nikki Tillman, and Laura Leibowitz for Piscataway Council. For the Cumberland County Board of Chosen Freeholders, NJWF has endorsed Jack Surrency, Donna Pearson, and Tracey Wells-Huggins. Earlier this year, NJWF endorsed Arati Kreibich (CD-5), Amy Kennedy (CD-2), and Sean Spiller who was recently elected Mayor of Montclair.

“The team of Irwin, Johnson, Tillman, and Leibowitz will be a model for progressive, responsive service when elected to Mayor and town council. Piscataway deserves strong leaders and public servants,” said Sue Altman, New Jersey Working Families Director. And Surrency, Pearson, and Wells-Huggins will bring independent leadership and public accountability that has long been lacking in Cumberland County. New Jersey Working Families is proud to endorse this great slate ofThe board voted Tetd  candidates and looks forward to supporting them as we head towards election day.”

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.

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.