I just found out I'm a Sean Spiller for Governor kind of guy.

[NNadir]

I haven't been following the NJ Governor's race, but I just got polled and looked into who's running.

I came across Sean Spiller, and went to his website. The guy has worked as a high school honors physics, chemistry, and biochemistry.

That does it for me as of right now, subject to change.

His parents were immigrants.

So far, so good.

[Jrsygrl96]

1. I see ads for him all the time.

Mikie Sherrill has a big presence in NJ and was on MSNBC many times. She's a vet and has been a congressperson for three or four terms now. think she will be the forerunner.

[NNadir]

2. I like her too. To be frank, I'm a little disappointed...

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...in the job Phil Murphy did with his campaign promise to keep New Jersey's best high school students in New Jersey.

My son was one of those students. He got a nearly full scholarship to a private Pennsylvania university (where he went for is Undergraduate and Masters Engineering degrees, the latter also for free, and with a stipend to boot.) Every university to which my son applied offered him money, except Rutgers. They made a big deal of how good their school was and how their accepted students were the best of the best, but made no offer to entice him to come.

New Jersey can kiss that former outstanding high school student goodbye. He won't end up working here.

They have a highly funded football team with an absurdly paid coach, but engineers? No real interest. (My other son works at Rutgers, in the arts, all he hears about are cuts.) I know this wasn't at the top of the issues on which Murphy worked, but I recall he mentioned it during his campaign, keeping our best students in New Jersey, but my personal experience says otherwise.

It's why I'm leaning toward an educator in that role.

I will, of course vote for whomever the Democratic nominee is however. For now, I'm for Spiller.