Posted on 09/30/2025 4:21:54 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill, who is currently embroiled in a controversy involving a cheating scandal while she studied at the U.S. Naval Academy, is facing questions and accusations of nepotism over her children being admitted to that same academy earlier this year.
"I am so proud of all the young men and women from NJ-11 who are reporting to the military academies or academy preparatory programs this summer," Sherrill said in a June press release highlighting 24 students from her district being appointed to various military academies including two of her children, Lincoln and Margaret Hedberg.
The press release did not note that the two students with her husband’s last name were her children and the photo in the release showing Sherrill posing with the students does not include her children.
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Members of Congress nominate students to the service academies while the actual academies make the appointments after the representatives submit a list of nominees by the end of January and the academies appoint qualified candidates.
Some on social media have suggested nepotism was at play with their acceptance into the academy given that only 22 students from her district were admitted to the military academies, including just nine to the naval academy, according to the press release.
College rankings show that admissions to the Naval Academy are very competitive with a 9% acceptance rate.
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ah yes- the college “legacy” for white people democrats are always complaining about...
Governor Sherril isn’t caring. She knows she can shrug this off and Jersey will vote for her in a heartbeat.
If she violated the honor code to cover for her peers, which of those peers does she now have leverage over to blackmail into getting her son and daughter into the service academy?
Legacy sounds nicer than nepotism, but it is a form of it, isn’t it?
And in this case, both forms in play.
I am not sure about this. Does it mean a son/daughter of a Senator or Representative cannot go to military academy if officials other than the office holders are of the same party?
The article doesn’t say that her children were known as the stupidest or fattest in their class, that give reasons to doubt them entering those schools.
Releasing unredacted without first blocking SSN and other private information is just reckless.
Jack for New Jersey...and he might win ..
Perhaps an auto pen was also at play.......
Perhaps an auto pen was also at play.......
Here’s a list of their group of entrants...
Should be easy enough to see if there are any common denominators or outliers.
“legacy” is perhaps a choice euphemism. /s
There is another possibility to question.
She apparently went to Annapolis. Do children of previous officer grads of the Naval Academy get a preference?
Go Jack Go!
Sometimes a club president will not allow a family member to buy a ticket to win the new automobile in a random drawing to “avoid even the appearance” of impropriety.
Too often politicians could care less about wrongdoing - real or imagined.
That Congress-lady must have been surprised to learn two of her children were selected to attend the Naval Academy at the same time although “it happens to families all the time.”
Sometimes a club president will not allow a family member to buy a ticket to win the new automobile in a random drawing to “avoid even the appearance” of impropriety.
Too often politicians could care less about wrongdoing - real or imagined.
That Congress-lady must have been surprised to learn two of her children were selected to attend the Naval Academy at the same time although “it happens to families all the time.”
Correct, unfortunately.
Academy graduates always have a leg up for getting nominated for admission.
What a shock. Do you think there might have been an applicant of color who was smarter and more deserving than your two kids, Mickie?
Whoever is doing oppo research for our side is doing a great job. They need to hammer the LBGTB stuff now.
Nice find.
New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill, is currently embroiled in a controversy involving a cheating scandal while she studied at Annapolis, the U.S. Naval Academy.
The Democrat is now facing questions and accusations of nepotism over her two children being admitted to that same academy earlier this year.
“I am so proud of all the young men and women from NJ-11 who are reporting to the military academies or academy preparatory programs this summer,” Sherrill said in a June press release full of phony Democrat tolerance and compassion———which highlighted 24 students from her district being appointed to various military academies with no mention that the list included two of her children, Lincoln and Margaret Hedberg.
The Democrat’s press release willfully withheld vital information that is very disturbing to voters—— that two of the academy students (listed w/ her husband’s last name), were actually her own children....... plus the photo in the release showing Sherrill posing with the students does not include her children.
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