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Rideshare Rodeo Podcast (episode 515) November 2nd, 2025 Subscribe to Kim's "FREELANCE BUSTING" Substack https://freelancebusting.com Kim's Substack Article discussed during live below: Editor’s note: On October 14, I emailed the campaigns of Jack Ciattarelli and Mikie Sherrill to request Q&A interviews with each candidate for governor in my home state of New Jersey. Sherrill’s team did not respond. The first time I ever spoke with Jack Ciattarelli was about five years ago on a video call. There were quick introductions, and then I started to give him an advocacy pitch about independent-contractor policy. These kinds of conversations with politicians typically involve about 10 minutes of me explaining that most independent contractors are not Uber drivers. I talk about how we like being our own bosses as freelance writers, owner-operator truckers, graphic artists, real-estate agents, finance and insurance experts, translators and interpreters, attorneys and a whole lot more. Much to my surprise, Ciattarelli already understood the policy issue. He started explaining why independent contractors need protection here in New Jersey. I was speechless. It was a first. Nowadays, when I show up at any kind of Ciattarelli event, he sees me, smiles, comes over to say hello and quite enthusiastically says, “Independent contractors!” If he’s giving a speech, he points me out in the crowd and talks about the policy issue so everyone in the room understands that our ability to earn a living must be protected. He champions those of us who are speaking out on behalf of New Jersey’s estimated 1.7 million independent contractors. As you can see in these most recent photos of the two of us from his Morris County campaign stop at the Chester Diner, he’s a guy who leans in. Genuinely. Independent contractors are most worried right now about the proposed rulemaking at New Jersey’s Department of Labor & Workforce Development. I had several questions for Ciattarelli about that, as well as questions about other things too. Here’s my Q&A about independent-contractor policy with Jack Ciattarelli. Q&A with Jack Ciattarelli Would you please share your personal background of working with independent contractors, so people can hear what I heard from you on that video call all those years ago? Kim, it’s great to have these discussions with you. And yes, I remember that conversation and I’ve since shared my personal experience with independent contractors, most recently during an appearance on Univision. A gentleman asked me if I have any policies that are good for truck drivers specifically. I asked him if he meant independent truckers in particular, and he said yes. So I shared with him my perspective as someone who comes from a family of business owners, and that’s one of many ways you can achieve your version of the American dream. There has to be a balance that allows a person to be a W-2 employee or a 1099 independent contractor, whatever they want. I told this gentleman, as I previously told you, that my publishing business would never survive if the proposed regulation in Trenton were in effect. My business relied on hiring many medical editors who worked as independent contractors, self-employed people who can work the way they chose to work. If I had to hire them directly as employees, my business would fail and there would be 20 other jobs never created. I’m for letting people follow their American dream, and if they choose the path of being independent contractors, we’re going to make sure that path is there for them. New Jersey’s Legislature, about a half dozen years ago, rejected legislation based on a California law called Assembly Bill 5 that involved the classification of independent contractors and employees. Do you believe the New Jersey Legislature made the right or wrong call when it let that California-inspired bill die? And why? As I recall, the Legislature listened to the reaction of lots of independent contractors who...

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