NJ PASTOR & CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST STEFFIE BARTLEY CALLS FOR WOMAN OF COLOR TO SUCCEED STEVE SWEENEY AS NEW JERSEY SENATE PRESIDENT

New Jersey (Monday, November 8, 2021) – Pastor Steffie Bartley, Northeastern Regional Director of the National Action Network and Senior Pastor of New Hope Baptist Church in Elizabeth, is urging New Jersians to make history by electing a Women of Color to serve as the Senate President.

According to Pastor Bartley “It was the Black and Brown voters who successfully delivered the statehouse for Democrats, yet two leading positions are held by white men and the third position, State Senate President is headed in the same direction. Black and Brown voters have delivered the Statehouse for Democrats, but unfortunately in return we are still seated at the back of the bus.”

Pastor Bartley is urging other clergy to speak out stating that the Assembly Speaker and Senate President are elected by their peers in the legislature and it is time for the body to be represented by someone that reflects the diversity of the state of New Jersey.