Going forward, Montclair will find itself in a newly configured 27th Legislative District — which could potentially pit state Sens. Nia Gill and Richard Codey against one another in a 2023 Democratic primary.
Gill, a member of the Senate since 2002 and an Assembly member for eight years prior to that, currently represents the 34th Legislative District (which includes Montclair, her hometown and continued place of residence). She told Montclair Local Friday she intends to run again in 2023, on or off the party line.
But Codey — a former governor, state Senate president, minority leader and assemblyman with a half-century in the Legislature — held off on any commitment about his plans for the next election. He said only that he's always loved Montclair, and would engage with it as completely as he could, should he choose to run.
"It's obviously an odd situation," he said of the reconfiguration, part of a reshuffling of districts throughout New Jersey by the state Legislative Apportionment Commission Friday. The map passed with a 9-2 bipartisan vote among commission members, with Republican Tom Kean Jr. and Democrat Cosmo Cirilo voting against it.
“We leave here knowing what can be accomplished when we simply work together,” commission co-Chair LeRoy Jones said of the compromise between delegations from the two parties, according to InsiderNJ. “Different parties, but the same fight.”
Can Codey, New Jersey's Joe Biden, who has been in office since his 20s, fend off against progressive firebrand Nia Gill?
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