For Immediate Release
Media Contact: Jackie.Greger@sierraclub.org
Good Election for Environment: NJ Sierra Club’s 2023 Election Round-Up
This year’s election results demonstrate a clear win for the environment, clean energy, NJ families and workers. The results from Election Day showed that the overwhelming majority of New Jersey Sierra Club’s endorsed candidates have won, including the incumbents endorsed. We look forward to continuing to work with the legislature and Governor Murphy to achieve critical, clean energy initiatives to combat climate, provide good, paying family, sustaining jobs and ensure energy security and independence for NJ. We would like to thank our volunteers and supporters who made their way out to the voting booths and elected our environmental champions.
“Yesterday, the clean energy transition won, clean air won, and energy independence won in New Jersey. New Jersey voters are very smart and continue to vote for environmental protections over and over again and deeply care about transitioning away from fossil fuels,” said Anjuli Ramos-Busot, Director of the New Jersey Sierra Club. “New Jersey Sierra Club is very proud to have endorsed environmental champions, and we are incredibly excited that a majority of our endorsed candidates won their seats. We especially look forward to working with now new Senators Mukerji and McKeon on protecting our environment.”
2023 Legislative Endorsement Victories
NJ State Senate:
District 5 - NILSA I. CRUZ-PEREZ *
District 7 - TROY SINGLETON *
District 11 - VIN GOPAL *
District 13 - DECLAN O'SCANLON JR *
District 14 - LINDA GREENSTEIN *
District 15 - SHIRLEY TURNER *
District 16 - ANDREW ZWICKER *
District 17 - BOB SMITH *
District 18 - PATRICK DIEGNAN JR *
District 19 - JOSEPH VITALE *
District 20 - JOSEPH CRYAN *
District 22 - NICHOLAS SCUTARI *
District 27 - JAMES MCKEON
District 29 - TERESA RUIZ *
District 31 - SANDRA CUNNINGHAM *
District 32 - RAJ MUKHERJI
District 33 - BRIAN STACK *
District 35 - NELLIE POU *
District 36 - PAUL SARLO *
District 37 - GORDON JOHNSON *
District 38 - JOSEPH LAGANA *
NJ State Assembly:
District 5 - William Moen
District 5 - WILLIAM SPEARMAN *
District 6 - LOUIS GREENWALD*
District 7 - HERB CONAWAY JR *
District 7 - CAROL MURPHY *
District 15 - VERLINA REYNOLDS-JACKSON *
District 15 - ANTHONY VERRELLI *
District 16 - ROY FREIMAN *
District 17 - JOE DANIELSEN *
District 18 - STERLEY STANLEY *
District 18 - ROBERT KARABINCHAK *
District 19 - CRAIG COUGHLIN *
District 19 - YVONNE LOPEZ *
District 22 - JAMES KENNEDY *
District 22 - LINDA CARTER *
District 28 - CLEOPATRA G TUCKER *
District 34 - BRITNEE N TIMBERLAKE *
District 36 - CLINTON CALABRESE *
District 38 - LISA SWAIN *
District 38 - CHRISTOPHER TULLY *
Country and Local:
Daniel Benson - Mercer County Executive Director
John Kashwick - Clinton Town Council *
William Ziegler - Leonia Mayor
Diane Scarangella - Leonia Town Council
Lesley Whyard - Westwood Town Council
Kiran Agrahara - Robbinsville Town Council
Douglas Singleterry - Somerset County Commissioner *
Paul Drake - Somerset County Commissioner *
* Indicates Incumbent
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About the Sierra Club: The Sierra Club is America’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, with millions of members and supporters. In addition to protecting every person's right to get outdoors and access the healing power of nature, the Sierra Club works to promote clean energy, safeguard the health of our communities, protect wildlife, and preserve our remaining wild places through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying, and legal action. For more information about our work in New Jersey, visit www.sierraclub.org/new-jersey.