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Suburban New Jersey voters face a clear selection in subsequent month’s particular election to exchange now-Gov. Mikie Sherrill in the House: Unless they need a radical, antisemitic socialist representing them in Washington, they need to solid their ballots for smart centrist Joe Hathaway, whom The Post strongly endorses at this time.
NJ-11 covers components of Morris, Essex and Passaic counties; although liberal voters predominate, no one would call it a hard-left district.
Yet Democrats nominated arduous leftist Analilia Mejia to oppose the GOP’s Hathaway, the mayor of Randolph.
Yes, Mejia’s now attempting to rebrand herself as a mere “soccer mom” with conventional values — however her file all over profitable the first is brazenly excessive.
Indeed, she urged voters to decide on her from the massive pack as a result of regular Democrats aren’t good enough: “Any old blue just won’t do,” she claimed.
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She served as national political director for socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential marketing campaign and now has his backing, together with that of hard-core “progressives” corresponding to Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Delia Ramirez and Pramila Jayapal — in addition to Jersey firebrand Rep. LaMonica McIver.
Mejia additionally headed the New Jersey Working Families Party, a proud lefty outfit that has referred to as for defunding the police and different extremist measures.
Mejia herself needs to strip cops of certified immunity, which means criminals can sue them personally, slightly than the federal government that employs them: That’s a recipe for police doing the least potential to stop crimes.
She calls for abolishing ICE and has promoted coaching on “resistance” to it.
Like Mayor Zohran Mamdani, she needs to socialize the whole lot — health care, group school, youngster care and more.
She’s a shoo-in to affix The Squad if she wins; different prime targets embody “taxing the rich” and packing the Supreme Court.
And Mejia isn’t shy about her hatred not simply for Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu however for Zionist “ideology” and Israel typically.
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She insists the Jewish state commits “genocide” (the one one of the 11 Democrats in the first to be so excessive) and opposes giving it even “a penny” of US support.
Asked if Jews “have the right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland,” Mejia was one of simply two Democrats to say no.
Which means sane Democrats and independents ought to flock to Hathaway — a average Republican who actually does have mainstream values.
He believes ICE brokers ought to get higher coaching however joins the overwhelming majority of Americans in believing they need to get violent illegal-immigrant criminals off the streets.
He’s pro-choice however sees no trigger to waste time in Congress on an concern that’s completely deadlocked on the national degree.
As a small-town mayor, he’s close to his group and is aware of what people need.
He’d push to decrease utility payments by supporting an “all-of-the above energy strategy”; hopes to cut health-care prices and back law enforcement, invest in mental-health remedy and “stand firm” with US allies, together with Israel.
“If you want to represent this district, you should have the moral clarity to stand with our Jewish neighbors and with Israel,” he says.
Mejia is drastically out of step with the district; far more residents share Hathaway’s cheap moderation.
NJ-11 voters wanting for a pragmatic centrist who cares about them and displays their values need to vote for Joe Hathaway on April 16, or in the early voting that begins April 6.
