New Leaders in New Jersey

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 10, 2017

Ravinder Bhalla, member of the Hoboken City Council and mayor-elect of Hoboken, discusses his successful campaign for mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, and obstacles he had to overcome during the campaign, and Ashley Bennett, newly-elected freeholder in Atlantic County, discusses how a sexist comment about the women’s march last January by an Atlantic City freeholder inspired her to run for his job, and what her plans are now that she won.

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