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The long trend of Middlesex County Democratic Organization-backed candidates prevailing in primary elections continued this year.      The incumbents won their races for surrogate and two, three-year seats on the county commission, according to unofficial results. Surrogate Claribel Cortes, who was tapped to replace retiring Kevin Hoagland earlier this year, cruised past Bruce Seitz by an unofficial vote of 29,224 to 5,986.   Running unopposed in the Republican primary for surrogate was Lisa Goldhamer who received 14,951 votes. Democratic County Commissioners Ronald Rios and Shanti Nar...

Indian American candidate Sam Joshi was victorious in the Democratic primary June 8 in his bid to become mayor of Edison, New Jersey. Of all the June 8 primary elections – many taking place in New Jersey and Virginia – the Edison mayoral race was arguably the most hotly contested, with Joshi and Indian American Mahesh Bhagia among the three Democratic candidates running, along with Arthur Esposito. Joshi won convincingly with 5,995 and 61.6 percent of the vote, roughly 30 points better than second-place Bhagia, who secured 3,185 votes for 32.7 percent. Esposito was a distant third w...

Unofficial results showed Joshi had 3,098 votes, while Edison Democratic Chairman Mahesh Bhagia (1,794 votes) and Arthur "Al" Esposito (287) followed.

    Following Internet Outages in Edison, Council Vice President, Mayoral Candidate Sam Joshi Calls for Municipal Broadband and End to Optimum Monopoly Sam Joshi is the only candidate with a real plan to end Optimum’s monopoly   EDISON, NJ — Following constant internet outages and consistently lackluster broadband performance, Edison Council Vice President and[...]

Today, Mahesh Bhagia for Mayor sent a follow up letter to the US Attorney’s Office, seeking an Election Monitor in the June 8th, 2021 Democratic Primary. He said he made the request after the Middlesex County Clerk still did not show receipt of over 100 people Vote By Mail applications submitted weeks ago. Minorities, including[...]