NJ-11: With Sherrill now governor-elect, John Bartlett (D) will run for her House seat

Passaic County Commissioner John Bartlett (D-Wayne) announced today that he will run in the special election for Sherrill’s 11th congressional district, a suburban, light-blue district that spans parts of Morris, Essex, and Passaic Counties. Bartlett has been in local politics for decades – he even briefly ran against Sherrill for the 11th district in 2018 – and he said he’s the right candidate for a troubled political era.

“Mikie Sherrill has been an excellent representative for the 11th district, and she’s going to be a great governor,” Bartlett told the New Jersey Globe. “And now it falls to the voters of the 11th district to select her successor, at a time when Washington D.C. is on fire and all the norms and all the bipartisan relationships that used to protect our democracy seem to be crumbling under the weight of the second Trump administration.”

“We need somebody who’s ready to step into this breach on Day One,” he added.

Bartlett isn’t the first Democrat to enter the race for the 11th district and he undoubtedly won’t be the last, making for a hectic and crowded special election. Its schedule remains unclear for now – it will depend on both the timing of Sherrill’s resignation from the House and on potential action in the state legislature to speed up New Jersey’s languid special election procedures – but the Democratic primary could arrive as soon as late January or early February.


https://newjerseyglobe.com/congress/with-sherrill-now-governor-elect-john-bartlett-will-run-for-her-house-seat/