Andy Kim Decries ‘Deeply Unfair’ Process in Middlesex
Today, U.S. Rep. Andy Kim (D-3) said he refused to back down in the face of “deeply unfair tactics during the Middlesex Convention.”
Prior to the vote taking place, delegates in the room motioned for a secret ballot, however, the Parliamentarian refused to follow up the request which resulted in a chant breaking out among the crowd demanding a fair vote, Kim recounted.
Nonetheless, the public ‘non-binding’ vote proceeded.
Voters, many of whom have jobs and positions in local, county, and state government, voted by raising their hands in front of all county leadership. This vote was non-binding and advisory only, as Middlesex County Democratic Committee Chairman Kevin McCabe made clear that he alone has the sole authority to determine which candidate gets the endorsement.
“To add insult to injury, the hand-raised votes were not even counted. All of this took place without transparency or accountability as this was the one and only democratic political convention in New Jersey this year that barred press from entering the room and covering the convention proceedings.”
Kim was livid.
“I find it deeply unrepresentative and unfair to have one single person be able to solely decide who is the endorsed candidate for U.S. Senate for a county with over 240,000 registered democrats,” said the congressman. “This election is about restoring trust and integrity, and having a broken system that allows a single person to have this much power to determine elected officials does nothing but further degrade trust in our democracy. The people of New Jersey deserve better, and the voters of Middlesex, not just one party elite, will decide who represents them in the U.S. Senate.”
First elected to Congress in 2018 at the age of 36, three-term Congressman Andy Kim is one of the younger members to serve in Congress and is the first Asian American elected to federal office from New Jersey. If elected to the Senate, Andy would be the 4th youngest Senator, the first senator from South Jersey in recent memory, and the first Asian American elected to the Senate from the entire east coast of America.
Dave Wilenz taught the machine how to play the game decades ago, and he taught them well!
Should name the chair and out their connection/reliance on Murphy.
MDX Chairman McCabe has been doing this in Edison for two election cycles now, the EDO has gotten minimal help from others to help protest the issue. https://youtu.be/mDTd4Okk0YQ?si=NY99eG1Pkue62Q_Y
What a travesty! What authoritarianism! If nominated, Tammany Murphy will have absolutely no moral ground to speak against MAGA authoritarianism, since she is propelled by the same corrupt tactics.
How stupid are u people!Kim is placing a persona of the clean up guy for a corrupt party and Murphy is just a rook that moves sideways with no political experience at all!Peaple when will u see the light and leave the dark side?Yes all you democrats are evil brainwashed by television must convert
I like both Tammy Murphy & Andy Kim.
I am still undecided.
The kind of morally bankrupt Democratic machine politics that we have in Middlesex makes me lean towards Kim.
Fairness in everything is paramount.
Do better!
Silvia Engle, chair of the Edison Republic Org, has done the very same menuver. She has the primary candidates resigned after they voter her back in to chairman seat. Her family are mostly democrats. They work together, and the school board.
Everyone loose when their voice isn’t heard. we voters better figure out how to run an honest election by replacing dishonest by November.
Andy Kim, let’s join hands and fix the election laws for the people, not the parties.
It just proves Murphy is a weak candidate. Why else would they be so afraid of a fair process? The chairs who allow this have no integrity.