Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Election Time and Hoboken: US House Race

This year's race for our district's US House of Representative seat (13th District of NJ) is between the incumbent Albio Sires (Democrat) and Joseph Turula (Republican) . I found it interesting to note that the 13th District is 46% latino and in fact the incumbent was born in Cuba and came to the US when he was 10.

Albio Sires was elected to the seat in a special 2006 election after the seat was vacated by Bob Menendez who replaced Jon Corzine as a US Senator after Mr. Corzine became Governor of NJ. Prior to that Mr. Sires was the speaker of the NJ Assembly. You can find out more about Mr. Sires at his campaign website.

Congressional website
VoteSmart profile
GovTrack profile

The challenger, Joseph Turula, is a lawyer who lives in Jersey City. Not much came up when I did a Google search. This is not so surprising as the district is heavily Democratic with Sires beating his Republican opponent in 2006 with a 58% point margin (77% to 19%).

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