Mikie Sherrill is quiet-quitting her duties in Congress while she devotes her time and energy to seeking a better government job — excessive shirking even by the noxious standards of America’s political elites.
While campaigning to upgrade from her mansion in Montclair to Drumthwacket, the 9-acre estate for New Jersey’s governor, Sherrill has missed 145 votes in the House, more than half the major votes this year.
No one else comes close, though second place goes to Rep. Donald Norcross, another New Jersey Democrat, who’s missed 83.
As Jersey electric prices soared, she missed votes on energy policy; as assassinations and antisemitic attacks plagued the country, she was a no-show for resolutions condemning antisemitism and political violence.
Raking in six-figure pay while playing hooky to chase a cushier gig is a blatant rip-off of voters, who chose Sherrill as their representative because they wanted her to, you know, represent them.
If she didn’t want to do that job, she shouldn’t have run for re-election last year — with her family’s $7 million in stock-market gains since she started getting congressional inside information, Sherrill can afford to be unemployed.
Of course, that would also mean forgoing all the free press, staff, networking opportunities and so on that continuing to serve in the House has provided.
Her Ferris Bueller act is even more egregious when you see how easy it’d be to show in DC: It’s just four hours to DC’s Union Station on the Acela — a far easier commute than most in Congress.
The House has only been in session for 135 of the 295 days this year, and Sherrill only had to show on days when that actually had votes; she had ample time for kissing babies and holding fundraisers back home.
Nor was the June 10 primary even a nail-biter that required her to be in-state constantly; she won by more than 100,000 votes, 13.3 points, over runner-up Ras Baraka.
There’s zero excuse for Sherrill to be a no-show while collecting a handsome salary from the taxpayers.
Yes, lots of other pols play this game: Zohran Mamdani has become an assemblyman-in-name-only, chronically skipping votes in Albany to run full-time for mayor; his role model, Bill de Blasio, who was everywhere but New York City while gallivanting on his comic 2019 presidential run.
And, yes, Republicans do it too.
It’s another appalling example of how privileged America’s political class has become — yet Sherrill’s setting a new low even for this self-serving crowd.
Give Mikie the 2025 Chutzpah Champion Award for trying to convince Garden Staters she can be trusted with more responsibility even as she ditches the duties she has now.