American representative Miki Sherrill chose the president of Centenary University Dale Caldwell as his colleague from the governor of New Jersey.
Caldwell, the first black president of the university, is also a pastor in the church Methodist Covenant United Methodist Church at Plainfield, Union. He has experience in the private and public sector, including work in the state government, the start of non -profit organization and leading charter schools. For 26 years he worked in the recent Brunswick School Board, including six as a president.
“Miki Sherrill and I represent a different type of leadership that sees opportunities, not blind commitment to doing things as always,” Caldwell said on Friday. “My life, like Miki’s, was devoted to service: my church, my students and my community.”
Sherrill praised Caldwell for “Voice for the Beinless” and said that the duo is “involved in New Jersey”, while Jack Ciattarelli, GOP candidate, “is involved in Trump.”
Ciattarelli announced his Governor of the Lieutenant at the beginning of this week at the bar in the Sherrill district, choosing the sheriff of Morris James Gannon.
Sherrill and Caldwell start the partnership on the campaign trail on Saturday with three stops, including at the Burlington Fair in Columbus.
A graduate of the Princeton University in 1982 and graduate Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania, Caldwell also received a doctorate in educational administration at the University of Seton Hall in 2017 his CV includes experience as executive director of Fairleigh Dickinson University Institute of Innovation and ENTERPreneurship and as the President of the Educational Services Committee.
He was the deputy commissioner of the Department of Social Affairs in New Jersey For several years after the former democratic governor James McGreevey was appointed. He also worked as a senior manager at Deloitte Consulting and was the founder of the executive director of the NON -Profit organization Newark Alliancewhich focuses on economic growth.
Caldwell also I move into democratic connections of tickets with the movement of the charter school. He is Chairman of the Founding Board and Charter school at Asbury Park and previously worked as the head of the Czarter school in Trenton. He argued in 2015 Wi on Edyta that “the success of charter school students is a direct threat to the lucrative franchise of Njea [public schoolteachers union] It has a public education system that has failed children in New Jersey. “
Caldwell school connections can complicate Sherrilla attacks by Ciattarelli, a pro-characteristic candidate who tried to throw his democratic opponent as “belonging to special interests”, such as teachers’ relationships.
Sherrill, however, focused on the provision of mental health services and magnetic schools Both candidates criticized Formula of financing the State School.
Sherrill had a powerful main campaign, winning a six -member race over 100,000 votes, but became the target of attacks when she maintained her status as a leader.
Some of these attacks came from the mayor of Newark Ras Barak, who tried to motivate the black voters of the working class, which, as he said, were neglected by the Democratic Party.
At some point the barrack He went to the hometown of Sherrill, MontclairAnd she criticized her answer to the question of what programs she would implement to close the gap of racial wealth in New Jersey. Sherrill said that she would implement better educational programs so that children read children in the third grade, as well as home ownership programs for the first time.
Barrel She told her the answer about reading children “He would be considered racist” if the Republican said it, calling it “deaf and completely without contact” and Saying that the differences come from discrimination.
In response, Sherrill said that she agreed that New Jersey has “deeply rooted system racism that should be solved.”
Caldwell’s relationship with the fight against racial injustice, both by creating history in some of his roles and through his personal relationship with the movement for civil rights (his father, priest Gilbert Caldwell, He was an activist for civil rights who protested next to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.), can lend a hand in the contact of Sherrilla with black voters.
Caldwell said that if he succeeds, the Sherrill administration will focus on reducing the costs and creating opportunities for New Jerseyans, because Trump’s “Magy” costs the state “our wallets and our freedoms”.
