Running for U.S. Senate is Nancy Rosenstock; for Congress in Newark's 10th District is Maurice Williams; and for Congress in the 13th District, which includes Union City, is Kari Sachs. More than double the required signatures were submitted on nominating petitions..

Rosenstock, a sewing machine operator and member of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees, thanked her supporters for the successful effort. "In 10 days we collected 2,300 signatures from working people and young people all over northern New Jersey," the socialist candidate said.

"Hundreds of people at the African-American Heritage Festival in downtown Newark signed petitions. And we received similar interest at shopping centers and street tables in Perth Amboy, Paterson, Irvington, Jersey City, and East Orange. This shows the growing opportunities we have to bring into these elections a working-class alternative to the parties of the super-wealthy minority." Rosenstock is opposing Democratic candidate Jon Corzine and Republican Robert Franks.

Congressional candidate Kari Sachs is an auto assembly line worker and member of the United Auto Workers union. Williams is a staff writer for the Militant, which will have weekly coverage of the campaign activities of Socialist Workers candidates around the country.

Among those participating in their first petitioning effort was a worker fighting his firing from a local meatpacking plant and a longtime activist in the struggle to free Ireland from British domination.  
 
Campaigning at Puerto Rican Parade
The candidates also joined members of the Young Socialists and other supporters for a day of campaigning on Sunday, June 11, at the Puerto Rican Day Parade, where they distributed hundreds of copies of a statement by the socialist candidates demanding that the U.S. Navy get out of the island of Vieques. Rosenstock spoke in Newark June 16 on "Puerto Rico: why independence is in the interests of all working people."

Campaign supporters are now gearing up to collect 1,600 signatures in the next two weeks to place Socialist Workers candidates for U.S. president and vice president on New Jersey's ballot. They plan to step up petitioning and sales of the Militant at area plant gates, to dockworkers and truckers, to farm workers and small farmers in southern New Jersey, and to students as they return to campuses for summer classes.  
 
 
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