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Bergen GOP picks Caliguire as County Executive candidate

March 23, 2022 11:55 pm

Bergen County Republicans have picked perennial candidate Todd Caliguire, who served as a freeholder in the 1990s, as their candidate for County Executive. Caliguire defeated Fort Lee realtor Linda Barba and two others to capture the GOP organization at the...

Old xenophobic mailer could haunt Caliguire bid for Bergen County Executive

March 17, 2022 2:07 amMarch 17, 2022 2:13 am

Republicans appear to have settled on perennial candidate Todd Caliguire as their pick for Bergen County Executive, but a controversial, race baiting, anti-Asian mailer from a campaign fifteen years ago might doom his candidacy. Buoyed by Jack Ciattarelli’s 47% showing...

Durwood Pinkett, Democrat who quit Van Drew staff, may run for mayor of Atlantic City

January 17, 2020 6:32 pmJanuary 18, 2020 10:53 pm

Durwood Pinkett, who resigned his post as an aide to Rep. Jeff Van Drew immediately upon being informed of his party switch, is mulling a bid for for mayor of Atlantic City. “I am officially exploring Democratic support for mayor,”...