By Bertin Lefkovic | April 25, 2021, 9:55 pm | in Edward Edwards
When Lisa McCormick ran against United States Senator Robert Menendez in the 2018 Democratic primary election, her campaign’s alleged usage of bogus signatures was probably one of the worst kept secrets in progressive politics. Anyone and everyone who followed the race knew that neither she nor her diminutive (I vaguely remember someone else referring to him in the past as Lilliputian and I refrained from using this adjective out of fear of being accused of plagiarism) campaign manager, Jim Devine, had the capacity or the reach to find at least 1,000 registered Democrats who would sign her nominating petition.
New Jersey will keep its 12 congressional seats after adding nearly half a million residents in the past decade, according to figures released Monday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The population growth, amid a national slowdown, seems to puncture the narrative that New Jersey s taxes and high cost of living are driving residents out in droves to states such as Florida and Pennsylvania.
New Jersey s population grew from 8,791,894 in 2010 to 9,288,994 in 2020, according to the Census Bureau, an increase of 5.7%.
Taken every 10 years, the census is used to determine how many of the 435 congressional seats each of the 50 states will receive.
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New Jersey will keep its 12 congressional seats after adding nearly half a million residents in the past decade, according to figures released Monday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The population growth, amid a national slowdown, seems to puncture the narrative that New Jersey s taxes and high cost of living are driving residents out in droves to states such as Florida and Pennsylvania.
New Jersey s population grew from 8,791,894 in 2010 to 9,288,994 in 2020, according to the Census Bureau, an increase of 5.7%.
Taken every 10 years, the census is used to determine how many of the 435 congressional seats each of the 50 states will receive.
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