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The eventual victor in the race to replace retiring state Sen. Loretta Weinberg, the three-decade liberal warrior from Teaneck, will not change the political balance of power the state Senate.
The winner of the emerging primary in the 37th Legislative District, a reliable Democratic redoubt of 13 Bergen County towns, will join the ruling Democratic majority under the Statehouse dome.
Yet, to some degree, the contest for Weinberg s seat shaping up to be fought between Weinberg s two longtime Assembly colleagues, Gordon Johnson and Valerie Vainieri Huttle, both from Englewood is emerging as a proxy for a broader statewide war. The 37th District is just the latest battleground in the progressive revolt against the old Democratic machine that has roiled the state party for more than four years.
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It appears that Democrats realize that not allowing police to give written notice
to parents the first time they catch their kids smoking weed or drinking alcohol is a potent issue Republicans could use against them this fall.
A Democratic-backed bill to clarify that cops can inform parents was introduced last week and appears to be on the fast track. It’s a clean-up bill of the last marijuana clean-up bill.
The first clean up bill was a way to get Gov. Phil Murphy to sign weed legalization while assuaging concerns from the Legislative Black Caucus. But now the leader of that caucus, Sen. Ron Rice, is OK with allowing parental notification. So how did the original clean-up bill end up including language that barred parental notification? I don’t know.
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Early in the pandemic, Gov. Murphy got a lot less attention than New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, even as the states went through the same crisis. While Murphy’s approval rating shot up at home, he didn’t get the kind of national attention that Cuomo has.
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As Assemblymembers Valerie Vainieri Huttle and Gordon Johnson competed for Democratic Party support to succeed retiring state Sen. Loretta Weinberg, the senator has remained neutral at least publicly.
“You’ll have to ask her that question,” Huttle told me when I asked if she believed Weinberg had