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| Winner | Losers |
| LEROY JONES | JOSEPH MUNIZ |
| The Essex County Democratic Chairman lets Millburn Democrats pick the candidate for the organization line in Essex — an impressive display of strong leadership and extreme confidence. | The North Bergen Democratic operative will not get Vinny Prieto’s Assembly seat after a backlash from a group of powerful Democrats in opposition to him going to the Legislature. |
| JEFF VAN DREW | MARY MAPLES |
| The Democratic State Senator wins the Atlantic County organization line for Congress in the 2nd district, albeit with just 57% of the vote. He’ll run in the June primary with all eight county lines — and so far, three rivals are splitting up the votes to his left. | The Governor’s Authorities Unit Director put her boss on the losing side of a fight over the vice chairmanship of the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission. She called Mildred Crump to tell her that Phil Murphy was backing Liz Calabrese seemingly unaware that Crump is a close political ally of the other candidate, Luis Quintana. |
| NJ.COM | NRCC |
| The website for New Jersey’s largest newspaper uses a photo of Gov. Phil Murphy wearing his baseball hat backwards as clickbait –makes sense to do whatever it takes to monetize the old media. | The National Republican Congressional Committee can’t be happy as five different candidates score an organization line in the 2nd district GOP primary — a seat the Republicans have held since 1994. |
| MATT FRIEDMAN | FRANK GILLIAM |
| The POLITICO New Jersey reporter has a great scoop on a new Super PAC, and even better, gets into a fight on Twitter with Sebastian Gorka. P.S. Sounds like a Hugin Super PAC to me. | While not breaking records set by Cammarano of Hoboken or Evelyn Williams, the new Atlantic City Mayor faces a possible criminal complaint less than three months after taking office. |
| JUAN MELLI | DEREK ARMSTEAD |
| The founder of BlueJersey.com and former Hoboken communications manager lands a new job at one of the state’s most prestigious public affairs firms. | The Mayor of Linden pulls a Mary Maples — that means an inability to assess the political climate and properly count votes — and loses his bid to dump an insurance agent tied to his rival and replacing him with one of his campaign contributors. |
Editor’s Note: By popular demand, the New Jersey Globe will publish a weekly Winners & Losers list. Some readers may remember this as the same format as the one I published every week from 2000 to 2010. This is my first Winners & Losers in eight years. — DW
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