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State Assembly - Legislative District 1

This year 2 seats are up for election in the General Assembly for Legislative District 1, which covers all of Cape May County, and parts of Cumberland and Atlantic counties. The two republican incumbents, Antwan McClellan and Erik Simonsen, are running unopposed in the primary. The democrats are running 3 candidates. Brandon Saffold and Carolyn Rush are running together as part of Team Fulop, where Steven Fulop is running for governor. Another candidate, Carol Sabo, is a 3rd democrat candidate and she is currently the mayor of West Cape May.

While the republican incumbents have some info on the Cumberland County Regular Republican Organization's website, and they do regularly make appearances at the bi-weekly republican breakfasts with brief campaign messages, there is a whole layer of depth they could go into to really lay out what's been going on during their tenure, how they plan to proceed should they get re-elected, and how they might compare to the democrats in the general election. Hopefully we can get in touch with them and gain that insight.

Meanwhile, we were able to meet up with Carolyn Rush and Brandon Saffold at a local meet n greet with Steven Fulop. They agreed to do a podcast style interview, which we have posted on their pages. We touched on many issues and you can get a good impression of their overall vision and personalities. We plan to do more correspondence with them as both the primary and general elections progress, as at least one of them will get through to the generals. Unfortunately, after reaching out to Carol Sabo several different ways, we have yet to hear back from her... though we have been able to recently find her campaign site, which remains to appear as a work-in-progress.
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