Amy DeGise Archives - New Jersey Globe

Cunningham not picking sides in state chair race

December 4, 2019 1:50 pmDecember 4, 2019 11:00 pm

State Sen. Sandra Cunningham isn’t making any endorsements in the contest for Democratic state chairman. “I have not supported anyone as of yet,” she said. Incumbent chairman John Currie faces a challenge from Essex County Chairman LeRoy Jones. While a...

Quiñones Perez affirms support of Currie, Schaffer for state party posts

October 1, 2019 1:21 amOctober 1, 2019 1:50 am

Hunterdon County Democratic Chair Arlene Quiñones Perez continues to deny that she was the instigator of a meeting to seek an alternate candidate for Democratic State Chairman instead of incumbent John Currie, although several sources with direct knowledge of events...

Quiñones Perez organized breakfast that launched plot against Currie

September 29, 2019 11:06 pmSeptember 30, 2019 10:53 am

Hunterdon County Democratic Chair Arlene Quiñones Perez was the ringleader of a bid to find an alternative candidate for Democratic State Chairman, the New Jersey Globe has learned. Quiñones Perez proposed that Hudson County Democratic Chair Amy DeGise seek the...

Murphy worked the phones to put the genie back on the bottle for Currie

September 29, 2019 6:03 pmSeptember 30, 2019 11:02 am

Gov. Phil Murphy personally called several county chairs this weekend to help repair possible leakage in support for the re-election of Democratic State Chairman John Currie, the New Jersey Globe has learned. The Globe first reported on Saturday that a...

Four women Democratic county chairs are open to a new state chairman

September 28, 2019 12:28 pmSeptember 29, 2019 6:11 pm

In the first real movement in the race for Democratic State Chair since April, a group of four women Democratic county chairs agreed in a private meeting this week that they are open to a change of leadership at the...

DeGise won’t endorse in Jersey City mayor race until there is one

September 3, 2019 3:22 pmSeptember 4, 2019 10:41 am

Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise isn’t ready to endorse Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop for re-election because Fulop has not yet announced a run for a third term. “I think a guy ought to announce that he’s running for office...

Tom DeGise staying out of Fulop ally’s BoE re-election race

September 3, 2019 2:24 pm

Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise is staying out of Jersey Board of Education President Sudhan Thomas’s re-election race. “Other than when Amy ran, I haven’t gotten involved at all in Board of Education matters. When Amy ran, I backed her....