Reformers say the machinations after Richard Codey's retirement announcement show New Jersey politics are about back-room deals and not democracy.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Voters in one New Jersey legislative district will face an entirely different slate of candidates than the one they voted on in the primary, prompting new calls for political reform.— setting off a chain of events that includes one of his running mates dropping out, and her husband seeking office on their ticket.
Though party leaders describe that reshuffling as Brendan Gill taking McKeon’s current spot on the ticket, rather than his wife’s, there’s not much practical difference. Both are Assembly seats serving the same constituency. “It gives credence to the worst suspicions about how politics go in this state, and I care about that,” Redwine said. “I really care about that as a voter, as a Democrat, as a parent, as an educator, as a volunteer. I want everybody, especially our newer voters, to believe in this process, and I just don't know how we can do that when this is what is happening.”
The post-primary switch is particularly galling to some political reformers because State Sen. Nia Gill will lose her seat at the end of this term. The redistricting put her in the same district as Codey, who beat her in a rare incumbent-vs-incumbent primary race. Nia Gill is not related to Brendan Gill and Alixon Collazos-Gill.
The process that resulted in Nia Gill losing her seat, and a general election full of candidates who didn’t run for those seats in the primary, shows how New Jersey’s democracy is riddled with flaws, reformers say. Nia Gill is one of the rare legislators who originally ran without her party’s endorsement in a primary, and won. In 2003, she beat Leroy Jones, who is now the chair of the Essex County Democratic Committee and the State Democratic Committee.
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