David Wildstein, Author at New Jersey Globe

No word from Murphy on Fisher’s status

January 4, 2018 12:09 am

Gov.-elect Phil Murphy has not yet announced if he’ll ask New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas Fisher to stay on. This is the only cabinet post not appointed by the Governor. The State Board of Agriculture (whose members are picked...

Wildes maintains huge warchest

January 4, 2018 12:08 am

It’s hard to remember how many times former Englewood Mayor Michael Wildes has floated his name for higher office. He filed a federal campaign account in 2004, just in case Steve Rothman decided to run for the U.S. Senate. It...

Evidence that Murphy isn’t superstitious

January 4, 2018 12:07 am

Phil Murphy is the first Governor to hold an inauguration day prayer service at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Trenton since Jim Florio did it in 1990. At least he didn’t pick the Princeton University Chapel, where Jim McGreevey and...

The early approval ratings problem

January 4, 2018 12:06 am

Phil Murphy exudes the same kind of confidence in his own political future as most New Jersey Governors do when they’re about to take office. (One exception was pre-hubris Chris Christie, who initially believed New Jersey would only give him...

Call it the Gottheimer Society

January 4, 2018 12:05 amFebruary 27, 2018 1:11 pm

Two years ago, former Clinton White House speechwriter Josh Gottheimer mounted a successful challenge to seven-term GOP Rep. Scott Garrett. Now two members of the Barack Obama’s administration, Tom Malinowski and Andy Kim, are looking to take on Republican Congressmen....

Democrats eyeing four NJ House seats

January 4, 2018 12:02 am

The path to a Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives runs straight through New Jersey, where as many as four Republican House seats are potentially up for grabs in the 2018 mid-term election. Democrats are the early favorites...

Success is in the eye of the beholder

January 4, 2018 12:01 am

Gov. Chris Christie told a New Jersey 101.5 audience last November that he thinks the New Jersey Republican Party is “no worse off,” of “even better off,” than it was before he became Governor. I strongly disagree with that characterization....