UNION CITY, N.J. — “We campaigned around the state collecting almost 3,200 signatures, showing the widespread support among workers for the Socialist Workers Party to be on the ballot,” Joanne Kuniansky, above, SWP candidate for New Jersey governor, told the Militant.
Kuniansky and a delegation of party campaigners from New Jersey and Philadelphia will be filing for ballot status in Trenton May 30. Craig Honts, right, is SWP candidate for lieutenant governor. During the five-week petitioning campaign, party members also sold 137 subscriptions to the Militant, 473 copies of the paper and 114 books by revolutionary working-class leaders.
Kuniansky condemned the brutal killings of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, staff members at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. “Fighting Jew-hatred has been part of our party’s program from its founding conference in 1938. We will continue to join protests and speak out,” she said.
In an effort to try to restrict ballot access, Gov. Philip Murphy signed a bill earlier this year requiring the SWP to collect 2,000 signatures, an increase of 150% from the 800 needed previously.