Joey Fox
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my name is two animals • in DC for @TheNJGlobe • [email protected] • 🏳️🌈
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Joined May 2018
Not commenting one way or the other on UMich’s point here but calling Marcos Arroyo a “New Jersey Democrat” is pretty funny when he holds a nonpartisan office and ran for Congress as a Republican less than three years ago
This is by far the most annoying angle of the online right wing in terms of analyzing NJ because it speaks to lack of ball knowledge Like tell us you don't understand petty machine politics and people who ID as"Democrats" but are despised by own party and indistinguishable from
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A few recent polls from Jack Ciattarelli-aligned pollsters have found a very close NJ governor’s race. Now we’ve got one from a pro-Mikie Sherrill group, and it shows the opposite: Sherrill leading Ciattarelli by nine points, 49% to 40%. https://t.co/bzLxhzj5qB
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A new poll conducted by an education reform group supporting Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair) finds their preferred candidate with a solid lead in the
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Scoop: Maplewood committeeman and ex-mayor Dean Dafis is likely to run in the packed Democratic primary for Mikie Sherrill’s House seat if Sherrill is elected governor. https://t.co/KjsP22muBu
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The field of Democrats planning to run for Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair)’s House seat if she wins the governor’s office continues to grow, with
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NJ-7 endorsements keep rolling in for @Varela4NJ, who announced ten new supporters in Hunterdon County today, including a former county Democratic chairman and the 2025 Democratic tickets for county commissioner + a local Assembly district. https://t.co/c8Og3RvWHa
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Brian Varela continues to rack up local endorsements in his campaign for New Jersey’s 7th congressional district, earning the support of ten more local
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One looming piece of the shutdown battle: food stamps. The Trump admin says SNAP funding will run out at the end of the month; NJ’s senators say the USDA needs to make sure that doesn’t happen. https://t.co/2YLiiluqkR
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The ongoing federal government shutdown has created a looming funding crisis for the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), frequently known
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We’re in a weird limbo right now in NJ’s two major federal court cases. One judge is determining whether Alina Habba can continue prosecuting LaMonica McIver… but a different decision could come down before then disqualifying Habba from prosecuting *anybody.*
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This is, without hyperbole, the best thing that's ever happened.
"Hashmi has declined all debates and will be represented by artificial intelligence."
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New Rutgers-Eagleton poll: 🟦 Mikie Sherrill 50% 🟥 Jack Ciattarelli 45% A result in line with what other pollsters have found recently, though it represents a decline for Sherrill compared to Rutgers’s two summer polls. https://t.co/HE8GARkji4
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Another poll has landed in the race for New Jersey governor, and it tells a pretty similar story to a number of other nonpartisan polls released in recent
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In a hearing that largely rehashed written briefs, a judge heard arguments on attempts to dismiss charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver from this year’s Delaney Hall scuffle. No ruling today, but a written opinion will be on the way soon https://t.co/PN3h9x0sHS
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A federal judge on Tuesday said he will issue a written opinion on whether charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-Newark) should be dismissed on
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Alina Habba’s role as U.S. Attorney faced the scrutiny of the 3rd Circuit today. Judges had probing questions for both sides, but seemed especially skeptical of the “unusual” ways the Trump administration had circumvented the typical appointment process. https://t.co/UAxy4cN2Ym
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The Trump administration’s efforts to keep Alina Habba as acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey faced a key test today, as the Third Circuit
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This all despite the fact that the DHS website explicitly states that it isn’t being updated due to the government shutdown!
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1. DHS posts statements disparaging LaMonica McIver. 2. McIver’s attorneys say they need to come down. 3. DOJ asks DHS to take them down. 4. They go down. 5. A *new* anti-McIver post goes up. 6. McIver’s attorneys object again. 7. New post now removed. https://t.co/reopx9fUZw
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With one day to go until a judge hears oral arguments on whether to toss assault charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-Newark), the Department of
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A new poll commissioned by pro-Ciattarelli super PAC Change NJ (and conducted by Kellyanne Conway’s polling firm) finds a close race – but Mikie Sherrill still in the lead. https://t.co/T88Tm1xZ8K
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A new poll from a GOP super PAC aiding Jack Ciattarelli’s campaign for governor finds a close race – though Mikie Sherrill, Ciattarelli’s Democratic
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Glad to see my maps make it into an @nypost video, but I wouldn’t have minded them asking me first!
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The government has been shut down for 17 days. I talked this week with @RepJoshG and @CongressmanKean, two Problem Solvers who helped resolve past congressional logjams, about what needs to happen to get it back open. https://t.co/V1AoEs2eAX
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The federal government shutdown began 17 days ago and counting. How will it end? That’s the question that everyone in Congress has been asking themselves,
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Pallone says Murphy needs to oppose the proposal, which would leave Long Branch without a full hospital. But all that’s happened so far, the Murphy admin says, is the application has been deemed complete: “Congressman Pallone is entitled to his own views, but not his own facts.”
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A proposal to move a hospital license out of Long Branch and into a nearby suburb has erupted into a surprising intra-party feud between @FrankPallone and @GovMurphy: https://t.co/IBknBqv6Sa
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A proposal to move a hospital license from one Monmouth County town to another suddenly erupted into a substantial political fight today, with Rep. Frank
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💵💵💵 One final fundraising story: here’s where things stand after Q3 in every NJ House and Senate race. https://t.co/58dC2jKg6X
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New Jersey politicians running during congressional midterm cycles have a tough task early on in their campaigns: trying to build up their profiles and
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NJ-7 endorsement alert: @Varela4NJ is getting the backing of @DrCamposMedina, who ran a progressive campaign for U.S. Senate last year and is now a Mikie Sherrill surrogate. (She’s also a 7th district resident!) https://t.co/RG77nZFmwM
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Patricia Campos-Medina, a longtime activist and labor leader who ran for U.S. Senate last year, is endorsing Brian Varela for the Democratic nomination in
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New Fairleigh Dickinson University (@DanCassino) poll shows little movement in the NJ gov race: 🟦 Mikie Sherrill 52% 🟥 Jack Ciattarelli 45% FDU’s prior poll from July had Sherrill up 45%-37%. https://t.co/gqQU2l7tf4
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Despite the millions of dollars that have been spent and the personal and political attacks that have been lobbed on both sides over the last three
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