JOE SPICUZZO

July 31, 2008 - 3:33pm

Mayor Choi gears up to run again in Edison

EDISON - Diners anchor what’s left of the train-track and warehouseEdison Mayor Jun Choi: Politicker file photoEdison Mayor Jun Choi: Politicker file photo girded countryside in this sprawling town, fifth biggest in New Jersey, where Mayor Jun Choi drinks his coffee on a summer morning in one of the more recognizable roadside haunts called the Plaza Diner.

The suit and tie and modest demeanor belie a man restlessly at work, for if Choi was an enigmatic upstart when he hit the scene three years ago, he has built himself into a surging political force, three-fourths of the way into his first term.

"And I’m running again," he says with a smile.

The Edison-raised kid who came from the inner sanctum of Bill Bradley’s machine-bucking 2000 presidential campaign, former state Department of Education wonk, Choi remains the Democratic Party outsider in a party that still does not know quite what to do with him.

Read More >
  • Friday, June 6, 2008
    Winners:
    Steve Rothman, , Jerramiah Healy, , Joe Cryan, , Tom Wilson, , BOB MENENDEZ, , Frank Pallone, , Bill Layton, , Phil Thigpen, , Rick DiMichelle, , JOE SPICUZZO,
    Losers:
    George Norcross, George Gilmore, Steve Adubato, MIDDLESEX COUNTY DEMOCRATIC SENATORS, Sandra Cunningham, Steve Lonegan, John Sette, Bob Torricelli, Paul Sarlo
  • Syndicate content