Raj Mukherji (born July 15, 1984) is a senator representing New Jersey's 32nd District and an American businessman and lawyer. He previously served five terms in the New Jersey General Assembly, during which tenure he served as majority whip and deputy speaker.[1] He is a former healthcare and information technology CEO, former deputy mayor of Jersey City, former local prosecutor, and law professor.[2][3][4] Mukherji was first elected to the General Assembly in 2013 and reelected in 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2021, and first elected to the Senate in 2023.[5][6][7][8] He is a former U.S. Marine Corps sergeant who enlisted two weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks.[1] Mukherji serves as vice chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee and as a member of the Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens and Military and Veterans’ Affairs Committees.[4] In the assembly, he served as chairman of the Judiciary Committee and vice chairman of the Appropriations Committee and Telecommunications and Utilities Committee.[4][9][10]
Mukherji started multiple successful businesses before completing his teenage years[11][12] and was sworn into his first public office at age 24.[13]
At 28, Mukherji – as a running-mate of longtime Senator Brian P. Stack – won a six-way Democratic primary election for the state assembly by a 36-point margin in 2013 and won the November general election by a 20-point margin,[12][14][15] becoming the second South Asian legislator in state history.[14][16] In 2016 and 2017, Mukherji was identified by POLITICO as the most prolific lawmaker in the state because of his primary sponsorship of more bills signed into law than any other legislator.[17][18]
The 32nd district includes the Hudson County municipalities of Jersey City and Hoboken.[19]
Early life, education, and career
Mukherji is the son of Indian American immigrants who arrived from Calcutta in 1970.[13][20][21] According to news accounts, he supported himself through high school, college, and grad school as an emancipated minor when economic circumstances forced his parents to return to their native India.[13][20] After suffering a pituitary tumor, stroke, and other ailments, Mukherji's father – an accountant and musician[22] – could no longer work as a result of his health but could not afford health coverage without employment.[13][20][23]
Mukherji cofounded and led as CEO companies that achieved an aggregate half billion dollars in enterprise value, spanning healthcare, information technology, medical cannabis, and real estate.[3][13][34] At 19, he had cofounded a public affairs firm[13][35] that he grew into the state's third largest lawyer-lobbying firm,[13][29][36] reportedly through his ties to New Jersey Democratic establishments and the Obama administration.[24][37][38][39] In 2011, he was named an annual "Legends" honoree by the Hudson County Chamber of Commerce.[35]
Prior public service
At 24, Mukherji was appointed by the Mayor of Jersey City and confirmed by the City Council to replace Lori Serrano (who had been removed and was later charged with corruption) as the youngest Commissioner and Chairman to ever serve on the Jersey City Housing Authority,[40] the state's second largest public housing authority and a $90 million agency serving over 16,000 residents and nearly 7,000 households.[2][13][9] Mukherji served at the Housing Authority for over 15 years; during Mukherji's tenure, the JCHA was applauded for expanding affordable housing stock in Jersey City and by HUD for attaining the highest score for Section 8 management among similar agencies in the state.[29][41] The agency was also showered with federal grants and aid from the Obama administration, which dispatched then-U.S. Secretary of HUDShaun Donovan to Jersey City on multiple occasions to announce tens of millions in competitive federal grants the agency had won.[42][43][44][45][46][47][48]
At 27, Mukherji was tapped to fill a vacancy as deputy mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey, the state's second largest city with a $500 million operating budget.[49][50] According to The Jersey Journal, while deputy mayor, Mukherji declined the $110,056 salary and a city-issued car, instead opting to earn one dollar per year due to "the austere economic climate."[29][49]
Mukherji was previously appointed by then-U.S. Senator Jon Corzine to his Military Academy Board in 2003.[29] In 2004, GovernorJim McGreevey appointed him to the Governor's Council on Volunteerism and Community Service.[26] He was also a Superior Court-appointed member of the Juvenile Conference Committee.[29]
Legislative career
In the Legislature, Mukherji has been a primary sponsor of hundreds of bills that passed both houses and were signed into law, including:
Enacting a comprehensive, bipartisan overhaul of the state's outdated and ineffective bail system and expanding legal aid for low-income New Jerseyans;[51][52][53]
Combating the state's heroin, opiate, and prescription drug addiction epidemic by requiring physicians and pharmacists to access the state's Prescription Monitoring Program to prevent "doctor shopping;"[54]
Making New Jersey the first state in the United States to enact a ban on ivory commerce (in an effort to thwart profits for poachers and wildlife traffickers and to protect elephants and other endangered or threatened species), which effort garnered public support for Mukherji's ivory ban legislation by actress Meryl Streep and musician Billy Joel and inspired similar prohibitions in other states;[55][56][57][58][59][60]
Legislation expanding the state's Drug Court programs and creating a substance abuse recovery housing program at NJ's four-year public colleges and universities with on-campus housing in order to provide a supportive substance-free dormitory environment that recognizes the unique risks and challenges faced by recovering students, along with other legislation expanding access to mental health and substance abuse treatment and recovery services;[61][62][63][64]
Repealing prohibitions on sports betting in New Jersey to help Atlantic City's gaming industry rebound;[65][66]
"The Parkinson's Disease Public Awareness and Education Act," a first-in-the-nation law dedicating resources to create a public education and outreach campaign for Parkinson's disease diagnosis and treatment, inspiring a similar effort in Kansas;[67][68][69][70][71]
Combating bedbugs by requiring sanitation, protective, and labeling procedures in the sale of used mattresses and boxsprings;[72][73]
Legislation improving prison addiction recovery programs (allowing certain drug treatment programs to operate in state and county jails) to help break the cycle of recidivism;[74][75]
Creating criminal penalties for fatal hit-and-run boating accidents;[76][77][78][79]
Improving the state's higher education system, develop an advanced cyberinfrastructure plan, and initiate a Big Data consortium;[80] and
Securing state infrastructure investments for his home county of Hudson.[81][82]
Mukherji became embroiled in controversy when he was tapped to be the new chairman of the Jersey City Housing Authority.[40] Amidst his nomination, critics opposed the Housing Authority's plans to demolish and redevelop a six-tower 549-unit public housing project known as Montgomery Gardens.[85] Later, while under Mukherji's leadership, the agency came under fire for its strict "One-Strike" eviction policy, enabled by federal legislation enacted under PresidentClinton, allowing housing authorities to evict entire households where a resident is charged with a serious crime (without being convicted).[86][87] While defending the legislation, Mukherji convened public hearings prior to ordering an overhaul of the One-Strike policy, telling Jersey City Independent that the policy had "served as a deterrent and important tool to reduce drug-related and violent criminal activity in public housing (...but) certain revisions may be appropriate to ensure an equitable policy and eviction process... We want to be fair and equitable to criminal defendants, as the presumption of innocence must be sacrosanct, while being mindful that our foremost responsibility is to do all that we can to keep our tenants safe."[86][87]
As a teenager, Mukherji pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of possession of a fake identification in 2004 that was used for underage drinking.[88]
Electoral history
Senate
32nd Legislative District General Election, 2023[89]
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