Native Americans protest before the Minnesota Vikings and Washington game in Minneapolis. (Photo by Adam Bettcher/Getty Images)

It’s hardly the first time lawmakers in places nowhere near D.C. have joined the fight against the Washington football team’s name—both the California State Assembly and New York State Assembly have passed anti-team name resolutions—but a pair of New Jersey State Assemblymen are joining the crusade.

Recently, State Assemblymen Patrick Diegnan (D-Middlesex) and Ralph Caputo (D-Essex) introduced a resolution calling for the team to change its name as well as requesting that the New York Giants—who play at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.—stop using the team’s name, and urging area retailers to voluntarily stop selling Washington football team merchandise.

“We in New Jersey don’t tolerate bigotry,” Deignan said according to NJ.com. “It’s a big deal.”

Naturally, the Change the Name Campaign, which has been spearheading the national campaign to get owner Dan Snyder to change the name praised the New Jersey lawmakers:

“We thank Assemblymen Diegnan and Caputo for doing all within their power to help oppose this injustice, and their decision to stand with the Change the Mascot campaign on the right side of history. As more and more political leaders across the nation recognize and speak out about this civil rights and human rights issue, it points ever more clearly to the obvious truth – the R-word is a dictionary-defined racial slur which has no place in the modern-day, mutually respectful society we aspire to embody in the United States in 2014.”

Will this be effective? Of course not, but it’s interesting see more and more lawmakers in other states join the growing chorus of people against the team’s name. Though, that chorus is still in the minority. Most polls show that a majority of people don’t find a problem with the team’s name.