Edison Democratic News Today

The slate of four Edison Township Council candidates who ran under the banner of Mayor Sam Joshis Team emerged victorious in Tuesdays primary.

Politics in Edison is usually complicated, but this primary season its a bit more confusing with the Middlesex County Democratic Party.

Seeking to sidestep a lawsuit, controversial Edison Democratic Municipal Chairman Mahesh Bhagia has caved and scheduled a reorganization meeting to elect

Indian American Sam Joshi wins Democratic primary for mayor of Edison, NJ Top Searches Indian American Sam Joshi wins Democratic primary for mayor of Edison, NJ Ishani Duttagupta / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Jun 12, 2021, 20:26 IST FacebookTwitterLinkedinEMail Pic: Twitter @MyCentralJersey NEW DELHI: Indian American candidate Sam Joshi has won the Democratic primary for the post of mayor of Edison, New Jersey, a city with a large population of Indian Americans. Unofficial results showed Joshi had sec...

Demands to dismiss Edison mayor’s assistant accused of racist remarks Demands to dismiss Edison mayor’s assistant accused of racist remarks   Calling themselves “Asian American community leaders” with connections to Edison, more than 150 individuals signed a statement demanding that the mayor and town council fire Nilesh Dasondi, who is the special assistant to Edison Mayor Tom Lankey. Dasondi, who was appointed to the special assistant to the mayor’s post five weeks ...

Mayoral candidate responds to claims he was involved in racist flier Mayoral candidate responds to claims he was involved in racist flier × Edison mayoral candidate Mahesh Bhagia, who has been endorsed by the Edison Democratic Organization for the November election, issued the following statement on March 10 regarding an investigation into a racist flier that was distributed in the community in 2017: “The racial flier was shameful and deplorable, and I was personally offended when I...

❯ EDISON – Mayor Thomas Lankey and Councilman Robert Diehl have appealed to the New Jersey Attorney General’s office and/or the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office to step in and bring those responsible for the racist flier that was distributed by mail during the 2017 Edison Township Public Schools Board of Education election to justice. Lankey and Diehl expressed frustration with the lack of movement in the case at a press conference on March 3. “It is frustrating to have this event...

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× EDISON – Up until recently it was not clear if the New Jersey Attorney General’s office was investigating the racist flier that was distributed by mail during the 2017 Edison Township Public Schools Board of Education election. Early on in the investigation, Edison Police Chief Thomas Bryan had said the investigation was in the hands of the Attorney General’s (AG) office and a public information officer for the AG had said the office’s policy “is that we neither confirm nor...