Mikie Sherrill - Candidate for US Congress, NJ 11th
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Mikie graduated from the United States Naval Academy and spent nearly a decade on active duty in the United States Navy. She served as a Sea King Helicopter pilot and flew missions in Europe and the Middle East. After leaving the Navy in 2003, Mikie went on to earn her law degree from Georgetown University and joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey as an Outreach and Reentry Coordinator, developing relationships between law enforcement and the community. Mikie went on to prosecute federal cases as an Assistant U.S. Attorney. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey with her husband Jason, also a Navy veteran, and their four young children. Mikie coaches her daughter’s lacrosse team and manages her son’s soccer team. Candidate website: http://www.mikiesherrill.com
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MI team members at the Mikie Sherrill fundraiser with special guest Maura Healey at Hastings Park, Lexington on Feb 1st
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Mikie decided to run for office for the first time after the 2016 election. “As a former federal prosecutor with experience prosecuting both violent and white-collar criminals, I've seen what it looks like when the powerful prey on the vulnerable,” she has said, and she is running to be the fierce advocate that New Jersey working families need. Mikie has an outstanding record of public service in the United States Navy and the U.S. Attorney’s office, and she has seen firsthand the power our public institutions have to positively impact people’s lives. At a time when Washington is controlled by a dangerous Republican majority, Mike will fight tirelessly to defend our American values and our democracy, and to increase access to opportunity for all hardworking people in New Jersey and across the country.
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The incumbent Rodney Frelinghuysen has elected not to run for re-election in 2018. To date there is one GOP candidate, Martin Hewitt, an attorney who recently signed a lease on an apartment in Morris Township, to be closer to the heart of the 11th district has so far raised less than $10,000. We assume more GOP candidates will jump in the race, now that the incumbent has dropped out. Donald Trump won New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District by less than a single percentage point in 2016, and the path to taking back the House runs right through districts just like this one
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