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“I don’t believe that Mikie Sherrill aligns solely with either one of them.” Perhaps he detected on my face my confusion. In Sherrill’s last campaign, working through the home’s Democratic club, Arkin gave money to her, phone-banked for her and wrote letters to the editor supporting her. “On impeachment … less so.”He wishes she would join the list of House Democrats calling to—as that bumper sticker of his puts it—"MAKE THE BAD MAN GO AWAY."
For now, though, would he vote again for Sherrill?“I would go for her rather than any Republican I can conceive of,” he said. To this point in her term, signs are strong that she can and will: Eight months into her congressional tenure, Sherrill looked at Schraft and spoke into the microphone, conspicuously on brand as a parent, as an attorney, as a soldier-turned-legislator.She acknowledged people’s anger and anxieties. Audience members wait to have their questions answered at "Monday with Mikie." Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill answers questions with a packed house. “Well, And then there’s Gavin.
I say this as a former federal prosecutor, a vet... eran, and a … “What she’s doing is—you can call it brilliant by moving and appealing to Republican voters,” he said, “but they’re Republican voters, right?”He told me about a conversation he had had with three voters after the Kinnelon town hall.
The most boisterous cheer of the night, by far, was for a seventh-grader who asked what could be done to make politicians from different parties get along and work together. “She has to work within the district,” he said. The legislation included an authorization for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to move forward with the Peckman River Basin Flood Risk Management project.Request tours of selected Washington, DC area attractions.Parsippany, NJ -- Representative Mikie Sherrill (NJ-11) joined with John Kennedy, CEO, New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program, Inc., to outline critical wins for New Jersey manufacturers in the House-passed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2021. On either end. | Sarah Blesener for Politico MagazineThis is the political fault line that has emerged for centrists like Sherrill. Impeachment chatter hasn’t budged the New Jersey moderate.
Mikie Sherrill, a former Navy helicopter pilot and federal prosecutor, is considered the heavy favorite, and has the backing of local party leaders and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. She said she shares them. “There’s no way in hell I would vote for a Republican at this time in my life, with what’s going on in the country,” he said.When I talked to Valente, the woman who wrote Sherrill the letter and met with her in her office and stoked the chants at the Verona town hall and hollered that focusing on anything other than impeachment at this point is akin to mowing the lawn while the house is on fire, I asked if she still would still vote for Sherrill next year. Kate Zernike, a political reporter for The New York Times. In my estimation, for whatever that’s worth, Sherrill has been a pretty quick study, getting more comfortable with each appearance at saying what she wants to say and how she wants to say it.And in Kinnelon, from my seat in the front row, I watched her give her answer to Schraft’s question about impeachment and found it clinical to the point of almost practiced. Mikie Sherrill At the same time, Sherrill does not run away from being a Democrat even in her Republican district. That felt dangerous. It called Sherrill’s The next week, in Sherrill’s district headquarters in Parsippany, often called the “Crossroads of North Jersey,” Valente and the other letter-writers met with her for half an hour.“I told her that growing up, being a student of history, I always imagined that I would have the courage to have hidden Anne Frank or to have marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge,” Valente told me, “and that this moment in time in the history of our nation once again calls for that level of courage.”Sherrill responded, Valente recalled, with her belief that probable acquittal in the Senate would embolden Trump and amount to implicit and precedent-setting approval of his conduct. “I don’t differ all that much,” he said.He’s also for universal background checks during gun sales and commonsense gun control. The first installment appeared in February. Veterans line the front row of the Kinnelon Town Hall as "Monday with Mikie" kicks off. She told me about being blindfolded and strapped into a helicopter that was flipped upside down in a giant tank of water. She was the only woman. “I don’t believe that Mikie Sherrill aligns solely with either one of them.” Perhaps he detected on my face my confusion.
And he’ll vote for her again. “I’m a moderate Republican.”“We are a two-party system,” he said. And so I don’t take that responsibility lightly.”On this particular Sunday in a middle school auditorium, special counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted report “I think we’re in a good spot right now,” Sherrill told Gavin.