BlueWaveNJ Bids Farewell To Founding Member, Montclair Activist

MONTCLAIR, NJ — BlueWaveNJ, one of the largest progressive political advocacy groups in North Jersey, is bidding farewell to a founding member: Cary Chevat.

A longtime Montclair activist and community booster, Chevat resigned from the BlueWaveNJ board to “focus his prodigious energy on working with the next generation of leaders,” the group stated Monday.

BlueWaveNJ President Marcia Marley wrote:

“Cary has been at the center of BWNJ’s election efforts which have reached one million voters and counting. As many of you are aware, Cary organized thousands of people onto buses to canvass in Pennsylvania for Obama in 2008 and 2012 as well as Hillary in 2016. In 2008, Cary and I led training for over 700 people at MSU and signed them up to canvass for Obama.

“When the gut-wrenching 2016 election brought that energy back to the progressive grassroots community, over 600 of us gathered at each of BlueWaveNJ’s first two post-election meetings and organized into action committees. Cary formed and led BWNJ's new Grassroots Committee to work along side the new issue committees. His committee's 2017 activities included sponsoring a training for the newly formed resistance groups in the state, coordinating buses to Washington with NJ 11 for Change to visit NJ's Congressional delegation and, as the 2017 election approached, organizing canvassing and phone banking at the Montclair office for Phil Murphy.

“The entire BlueWaveNJ Board thanks Cary for his many contributions and passionate commitment to the organization. We all wish him much success in his next endeavor and we hope to work with him and the new fearless generation of activists he is training.”

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