A Montclair woman who helped direct new media communications for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign and then in the White House, is actively looking at running in a special election for Congress in New Jersey’s 11th district if Democrat Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair) wins the governor’s race this year.
Cammie Croft, 43, has been exploring a run for the last month, the New Jersey Globe has confirmed.
With Sherrill leading in polls, Democrats are already eying a run for her seat in a primary that could come as early as January. Possible candidates include Essex County Commissioner Brendan Gill, former Rep. Tom Malinowski, Passaic County Commissioner John Bartlett, Assemblywoman Rosy Bagolie (D-Livingston), South Orange Mayor Sheena Collum, Morris Township Deputy Mayor Jeff Grayzel, Chatham Borough Councilman Justin Strickland, and Jack Miller, the former communications director at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management under Joe Biden, who was raised in Morristown and lives in Montclair.
Croft, now the vice president of Rewiring America, a non-profit aimed at converting America’s energy needs toward electrification. She was the new media rapid response director for Obama and the deputy new media director at the White House. She later worked at the U.S. Department of Energy and as deputy executive director of Amnesty International.
She began her public service career as a community organizer for environmental causes and against the war in Iraq. In 2006, she managed the come-from-nowhere campaign of Jim Pederson, who won a competitive, six-candidate race for the Washington State House of Representatives by 239 votes against the Seattle City Council President; Pederson is now the majority leader of the Washington Senate.
The 11th district, which includes parts of Essex, Morris, and Passaic counties, went for Kamala Harris by nearly nine points in 2024; Joe Biden won it by almost seventeen points four years earlier.
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