Marie Corfield

[barking_iguana]

This is the candidate I've been volunteering for.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/19/1008647/-Educators-will-get-out-of-politics-when-politicians-get-out-of-education?showAll=yes&via=blog_801986

Comments

[jpmassar.livejournal.com]

When is the election? Does she have any realistic chance? (i.e., how does the District lean PVI or similar wise?)

[jpmassar.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Looks to me like the district is solidly Republican.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Legislative_District_(New_Jersey)

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

Not so. It's a newly redistricted district, which is very evenly split. The towns that comprise the new district went for Obama in 2008 and Christie in 2009. Take a look at the analysis I did at http://www.bluejersey.com/diary/18185/16th-district-topofticket-results-2008-and-2009 including the spreadsheet I linked to in the comments that deals with state legislative districts.

Each district will elect a state senator and two members of the assembly. One of the GOP candidates for assembly dropped out at the last minute, having had second thoughts about the redistricting. So the GOP is running a write-in and a candidate on the ballot in a vote-for-two situation. The only incumbent is the GOP candidate for Senate, who's popular in the part of the district that leans GOP anyway, and is unknown in the more Democratic part of the district.

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

Because the new district as a whole is a toss-up but includes the county seats of two GOP counties, I consider the race especially important as a vehicle for the progressive activists in that part of the state to work on a closely contested race of more than municipal import.

[jpmassar.livejournal.com]

Excellent news, then.

How about asking your candidate to put up something on her web page about issues? I hate completely generic web pages. There must be several important New Jersey state issues that she could take a stand on.

What is her stand on marriage equality? Would she vote for it should it come up again, as it might very well (although perhaps not until she is re-elected)

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

The campaign for the three candidates is being run out of the Somerset County Democratic Party, not by the individual candidates.

[jpmassar.livejournal.com]

Heh

In January, 2002 she appeared on Jeopardy! where she finished second, and was the only contestant to correctly answer the final Jeopardy! question.

http://www.16thdistrictdemocrats.org/marie_corfield_for_assembly