New Jersey State Assembly 2009

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Instead of crowding up the Gubernatorial thread, I'm going to use this instead to include info about the state's few competitive State Assembly races.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY
CURRENT: Democrats have control with 48 seats. Republicans have 32.
All 80 seats are up for election. Assemblymen run in two-member districts where the top two finishers are elected.

STATE SENATE
CURRENT: Democrats have control with 23 seats. Republicans have 17.
The Senate is only up for election in years ending in one, three, and seven. There are two special elections however: One GOP-held seat and one Democratic seat.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Newspaper endorsements:

DISTRICT 1 [Milam (D); Albano (D)
Press of Atlantic City: Donahue (R) and Albano (D)


DISTRICT 3 [Burzichelli (D); Riley (D)]
Gloucester County Times: Burzicelli (D) and Villare (R)
Courier-Post: Burzicelli (D) and Villare (R)

DISTRICT 4 [Moriarty (D); Open (D)]
Courier-Post: Moriarty (D) and DiCicco (R)

DISTRICT 6 [Lampitt (D); Greenwald (D)]
Courier-Post: Lampitt (D) and Greenwald (D)

DISTRICT 14 [Greenstein (D); DeAngelo (D)]
Trenton Times: Greenstein (D) and DeAngelo (D)
Home News Tribune: Calabro (R) and Harvey (R)

DISTRICT 22 [Stender (D); Green (D)]
Courier News: Marks (R) and Vastine (R)

DISTRICT 36 [Scalera (D); Schaer (D)]


SENATE SPECIAL ELECTIONS
DISTRICT 6 [Beach (D)]
Courier-Post: Adolf (R)

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

And my own personal calls:

DEMOCRATS
Milam (AD01): Slight Republican
Albano (AD01): Toss-up
Burzicelli (AD03): Safe Democrat
Riley (AD03): Strong Democrat
Moriarty (AD04): Strong Democrat
open (AD04): Lean Democrat
Conners (AD07): Strong Democrat
Conaway (AD07): Strong Democrat
Greenstein (AD14): Strong Democrat
DeAngelo (AD14): Strong Democrat
Wisnewski (AD19): Strong Democrat
open (AD19): Strong Democrat
Stender (AD22): Slight Democrat
Green (AD22): Slight Democrat
Schaer (AD36): Toss-up
Scalera (AD36): Toss-up
Voss (AD38): Lean Democrat
Wagner (AD38): Lean Democrat

REPUBLICANS
All GOP-held seats are currently ranked "Safe Republican."

Republicans are likely to gain 1-2 seats this cycle, with a notably significant upside potential. Neither of the Senate Seats up for special election, District 6 (formerly Adler) and District 23 (formerly Lance), are expected to be competitive.

[Rowan]

I live in LD-1, and I think Milam is gone before Albano.

[Rowan]

The Press endorses Albano and Donohue.

http://pressofatlanticcity.com/opinion/editorials/article_1aaed1ca-98a5-532b-80aa-151944b69409.html

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

In total, newspapers urge defeat of 18 incumbent legislators

http://www.politickernj.com/wallye/34678/total-newspapers-urge-defeat-16-incumbent-legislators

[Хahar 🤔]

From the main page, this reads "Re: New Jersey State Ass..."

[DownWithTheLeft]

Sorry for my extended abscene lately but I've been working almost non-stop for the Christie campaign and LD-36.  With that, I fully expect a split in LD-36 with Pio Costa the Republican that wins and most likely Scalera as the Dem