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Glen Rock NJ, Arati Kreibich this morning tweeted her Democratic Primary candidacy for Congress in the 5th District.
The district is currently served by U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-5).
“My name is Arati,” she said. “I’m running against Josh Gottheimer because we can’t be afraid of big solutions to big problems. We need someone who represents the people of #NJ5 – not just big donors.”
According to Politico, Kreibich is a neuroscientist and freshman councilwoman from the Bergen County borough of Glen Rock.
Glen Rock Councilmember Arati Kreibich announced on Monday that she is challenging incumbent Josh Gottheimer for the Democratic Party nomination in New Jersey’s 5th Congressional District.
“We need to have the moral courage and conviction to stand up for what is right and what is fair,” Kreibich said in a video launching her campaign. “Our representatives should stand with people – not corporations.”
At least two Republicans – Frank Pallota and Mike Ghassali – are vying to take on the incumbent Democrat in 2020. The GOP earlier today issued a statement celebrating the entrance into the race of a challenger to Gottheimer’s left in a district held by Republicans as recently as 2016.
“In a district President Trump won, the last thing Josh Gottheimer needs is a primary challenger who will push him even further to the left. Let’s just hope he doesn’t lose his temper,” said NRCC Spokesman Michael McAdams.
On the heels of Kreibich’s announcement, the congressman issued a list of Democratic Party endorsements.
haven’t heard there were problems with our current rep. What’s the deal?
Carpetbaggin’ Josh is a Clinton plant. Never forger that.
Gottheimer is the worst.
Arati Kreibich… any relationship to Karl Kreibich?
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Karl Kreibich (1883–1966), also known as Karel Kreibich, was a Sudeten German communist politician in Czechoslovakia. Kreibich emerged as the main leader of the revolutionary socialist movement amongst German workers in Bohemia after the First World War. He was a leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and a functionary of the Communist International. During the First Czechoslovak Republic, he was elected to parliament thrice (twice to the Chamber of Deputies and once to the Senate). During the Second World War he was part of the exiled Czechoslovak State Council, based in London. After the war he served as Czechoslovak ambassador to the Soviet Union.
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Kreibich, along with his colleague Alois Neurath, built the new party with inspiration from the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).[8] Notably, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (German Division) was the first communist party in the new republic, with the Czech Marxist left forming their party only in May 1921.[9] Lenin in particular was pushing for the unification of the communist movement in Czechoslovakia into a single party, a move that the Czech leftists had initially resisted.[9] The German communists had taken a more radical stand than the Czech left leader Bohumír Šmeral, who for tactical reasons hesitated in forming a new party.[10] Šmeral sought to gather as many left social democrats as possible before formalizing the split in the Czech social democracy, prompting Kreibich to accuse the Czech Marxist left of being a platform for ‘centrists’ and ‘opportunists’.[8] Drawing from the experiences of the building of the KPD, Kreibich sought to utilize the same approach to Šmeral’s group as the Spartacus League had employed in winning over large parts of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany.[8]
Kreibich represented the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (German Division) at the third congress of the Communist International, held in Moscow June-July 1921.[11] The dispute between the Šmeral and Kreibich factions was resolved at this meeting, the Comintern instructed that a unified international Communist Party to be formed in Czechoslovakia within three months (which Šmeral had resisted) whilst Kreibich was reprimanded for ‘leftist deviations’.[12]
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What has done for Glen Rock as Councilwoman?
What are the NJ5 DISTRICT’s issues she is fighting for?
We don’t have a problem of illegal immigrants here in the NJ5 district.
She supports the green new deal. That should scare everyone away.
new jersey has a massive illegal immigration problem