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Jersey City Ward D council candidate Danielle Freire. Facebook photo.
By John Heinis/Hudson County View
Freire, who works as the development director for the non-profit group Building Equity & Alignment for Impact, filed her D-1 form with the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (NJ ELEC) yesterday.
For the time being, she does not have a campaign chair and will serve as her own campaign treasurer.
“Our campaign is 100 percent grassroots and is powered by people who are ready to see authentic representation on city council. My run is only a small part of a larger effort that is happening on a national scale,” she said Thursday morning.
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Leslie Anderson
Anderson is the president and chief executive officer of the New Jersey Redevelopment Authority the first and only African-American woman in the nation to lead an independent redevelopment financing agency, and thanks to her effectiveness she has been reappointed to this position by four consecutive governors. Since Anderson took over more than a decade ago, the authority has leveraged nearly $4 billion in new investments – including about $500 million in direct investments – in some of the state’s most economically distressed communities. That funding has been vital to redevelopment efforts around New Jersey, with the authority claiming credit for 15,000 new housing units and more than 10 million square feet of commercial and retail space. And the authority is now poised to play a significant role in the Opportunity Zone program. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, NJRA created the Small Business Lease-Emergency Assistance Grant Program
Former Morris County Freeholder Candidate Pleads Guilty to Falsifying Election Report By rlsmetro on
Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced that former Morris County freeholder candidate Mary Dougherty pleaded guilty today to filing a false report with the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC) in connection with an illegal $10,000 campaign contribution that she received.
Officials said Dougherty, 60, of Morristown, pleaded guilty to an accusation charging her with false swearing, a fourth-degree crime, before Superior Court Judge Stephen J. Taylor in Morris County.
Under the plea agreement, the state will recommend that Dougherty be sentenced to a period of non-custodial probation to be determined by the court.
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Former Morris County Freeholder Candidate Pleads Guilty to Falsifying Election Report In Connection With Illegal $10,000 Campaign Contribution She Received By Insider NJ | February 19, 2021, 11:22 am | in News
Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced that former Morris County freeholder candidate Mary Dougherty pleaded guilty today to filing a false report with the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC) in connection with an illegal $10,000 campaign contribution that she received.
Dougherty, 60, of Morristown, N.J., pleaded guilty to an accusation charging her with false swearing, a fourth-degree crime, before Superior Court Judge Stephen J. Taylor in Morris County. Under the plea agreement, the state will recommend that Dougherty be sentenced to a period of non-custodial probation to be determined by the court. She must forfeit the $10,000 that she received as an illegal campaign contribution. Sentencing is sc