A pro-health care voting record and commitment to supporting the rights of healthcare workers and patients won the endorsement for candidates for the NJ State Legislature from NJ’s largest health care union, the Health Professionals and Allied Employees (HPAE/AFT/AFL-CIO). HPAE has voted to support a slate of Assembly candidates, Freeholders and the vote included endorsements for Philadelphia’s Mayor and Council members.
“HPAE’s Executive Council and Committee on Political Education both went through an extensive review of candidate responses to our organization’s questionnaire and the voting records of incumbents prior to making our recommendations for endorsement.” said Ann Twomey, President of HPAE. “These candidates are on the side of health care workers and patients – and have a proven commitment to protecting patients and workers in a time where health care mergers and consolidations across New Jersey are moving at a rapid pace and this trend is expected to continue.
Among the issues and votes HPAE members examined were support or opposition to legislation to:
- Establish safe nurse staffing standards;
- Protections for public employee pensions and benefits;
- Reform workers’ compensation for firefighters and first responders, including nurses;
- Establish earned sick days; and
- Support workplace rights.
HPAE’s endorsements will include regular mailings and outreach to the 12,000 nurses and health care workers represented by HPAE in NJ hospitals, nursing homes, home care and university research settings.
NJ State Legislature
LD1 Assembly Bob Andrzejczak (D)
LD2 Assembly Vincent Mazzeo (D)
LD3 Assembly John Burzichelli (D) and Adam Taliaferro (D)
LD4 Assembly Paul Moriarity (D)and Gabriela Mosquera (D)
LD5 Senator Nilsa Cruz-Perez (D)
LD6 Assembly Louis D. Greenwald and Pamela R. Lampitt (D)
LD7 Assembly Herb Conaway (D) and Troy Singleton (D)
LD11 Assembly Joann Downey (D)and Eric Houghtaling (D)
LD13 Assembly Jeanne Cullinane (D) and Thomas Herman (D)
LD14 Assembly Wayne DeAngelo (D) and Daniel Benson (D)
LD15 Assembly Reed Gusciora (D) and Elizabeth Maher Muoio (D)
LD17 Assembly Joseph Egan (D) and Joseph Danielson (D)
LD18 Assembly Patrick Diegnan, Jr (D) and Nancy Pinkin (D)
LD19 Assembly John Wisniewski (D) and Craig Coughlin (D)
LD20 Assembly Annette Quijano (D) and Jamel Holley (D)
LD22 Assembly Jerry Green (D) and James Kennedy (D)
LD27 Assembly John McKeon (D) and Mila Jasey (D)
LD28 Assembly Cleopatra Tucker (D)
LD29 Assembly Ralph Caputo (D)
LD30 Assembly Jim Keady (D) and Lorna Phillipson (D)
LD31 Assembly Angela McKnight (D) and Nicholas Chiaravalloti (D)
LD32 Assembly Vincent Prieto (D) and Angelica Jimenez (D)
LD33 Assembly Raj Mukherji (D)
LD34 Assembly Sheila Oliver (D) and Thomas Giblin (D)
LD35 Assembly Benjie Wimberly (D) and Shavonda Sumter (D)
LD36 Assembly Gary Schaer (D)
LD37 Assembly Gordon Johnson (D) and Valerie Vainieri Huttle (D)
LD38 Assembly Timothy Eustace (D) and Joseph Lagana (D)
Monmouth County Freeholder Carol Rizzo (D)
Bergen County Freeholder Tom Sullivan (D), Steve Tanelli (D), Tracy Zur (D)
Philadelphia Mayor & Council:
Mayor -Jim Kenney
City Council At-Large:
- Blondell Reynolds-Brown (D)
- Helen Gym (D)
- William K. Greenlee (D)
- Allan Domb (D)
- Derek S. Green (D)
- Daniel Tinney (R)
City Council by District
- Mark F. Squilla (D)
- Kenyatta Johnson (D)
- Jannie L. Blackwell (D)
- Curtis J. Jones Jr. (D)
- Darrell L. Clarke (D)
- Bobby Henon (D)
- Maria Quinones Sanchez (D)
- Cindy Bass (D)
- Cherelle Parker (D)
- Brian J. O’Neill (R)