{"id":301182,"date":"2025-10-13T23:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T23:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/301182\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T23:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T23:51:12","slug":"can-sacco-still-deliver-north-bergen-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/301182\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Sacco still deliver North Bergen votes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when Mayor Nicholas Sacco could deliver a massive number of votes in North Bergen, but his endorsement of Republican Jack Ciattarelli comes at a moment when his <a href=\"https:\/\/newjerseyglobe.com\/local\/hudson\/mapping-the-2025-hudson-county-war\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">electoral potency is in question<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sacco\u2019s candidate in the June Democratic gubernatorial primary, Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop, carried North Bergen by 189 votes over Rep. Mikie Sherrill, 2,997 to 2,808, 38%-36%, in a six-candidate field.\u00a0 Sherrill was endorsed by Union City Mayor\/State Sen. Brian P. Stack, who is winning a bitter feud with Sacco.<\/p>\n<p>A slate of Sacco\u2019s candidates for State Assembly in the 33rd district Democratic primary also performed unimpressively.\u00a0 The top vote-getter was former North Bergen school board member Tony Hector, a Sacco-backed candidate who received 3,668 votes.<\/p>\n<p>But the second-place finisher in North Bergen was businessman Larry Wainstein, a fierce Sacco critic who has run against him three times.\u00a0 With Stack\u2019s support, 3,546 Democrats in North Bergen voted for Wainstein, nine more than Sacco\u2019s candidate, Republican-turned-Democrat Frank Alonso.\u00a0 Wainstein is now a sure-bet to be an assemblyman next year.<\/p>\n<p>Assemblyman Gabriel Rodriguez (D-West New York), a Stack ally, finished just 307 votes behind Alonso \u2013 not the kind of margins Sacco is accustomed to delivering.<\/p>\n<p>The downside for Ciattarelli is that Sacco\u2019s endorsement could just energize Stack, along with other allies: West New York Mayor Albio Sires and Hudson County Executive Craig Guy, the Democratic county chairman.<\/p>\n<p>Eight years ago, when Sacco was heavily invested in Phil Murphy\u2019s campaign for governor, the results were noticeably different: Murphy received 5,030 votes \u2013 over 2,000 more than Fulop \u2013 and 82% in a six-candidate contest.<\/p>\n<p>In the Democratic primary for Hudson County Sheriff, Sacco was heavily invested behind incumbent Frank Schillari and delivered an 870-vote margin in North Bergen, 56%-44%.\u00a0 That\u2019s far below what Sacco<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Donald Trump received 45% of the vote in North Bergen, a big jump from Trump\u2019s 34% in 2020 and his 21% in 2016.\u00a0 In 2021, Ciattarelli received 27% of the vote, and Murphy beat him by 4,997 votes, 7,996 to 2,999.<\/p>\n<p>Sacco\u2019s performance in the general election may be a precursor to the 2027 non-partisan municipal elections.\u00a0 It\u2019s unclear whether he\u2019ll run again for the post he\u2019s held since 1991, or if he\u2019ll try to hand the baton to a bunch of heir apparents who don\u2019t get along with each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a time when Mayor Nicholas Sacco could deliver a massive number of votes in North Bergen,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":301183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-301182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115369547181534259","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}