Veronica Fernandez
What this job does: One of New Jersey's two votes in the U.S. Senate. Senators write and vote on federal laws, taxes and spending, and approve or reject the president's picks for federal judges, the Supreme Court and the Cabinet. A term is six years.
- Occupation
- Property and casualty insurance underwriter (former, per WHYY)
- Lives in
- Long Valley
Background
- Born and raised in Franklin, N.J.; lives in Long Valley, Morris County. source: whyy.org
- Worked for years as a property and casualty insurance underwriter. source: whyy.org
- Long active with the League of Women Voters. source: whyy.org
- Ran for U.S. Senate in 2020, U.S. House in 2022 and the New Jersey General Assembly in 2023. source: whyy.org
In their own words
What the candidate says they will work on, from their campaign site or their answers to news-outlet questionnaires. We list it as stated and do not rate it.
- Medicare for all; calls insurers "entirely unnecessary middlemen" in health care source: whyy.org
- Overturn the Citizens United v. FEC ruling on campaign money source: whyy.org
- A "working-class Congress" to address affordability source: whyy.org
- No U.S. money to Israel; calls Israel's actions in Gaza genocide source: whyy.org
- Opposes the war with Iran, calling it "completely unnecessary" source: whyy.org
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