Andrew Zwicker Archives - New Jersey Globe

Pruitt, Parks join Weinberg panel on misogyny in politics

January 30, 2020 9:54 amJanuary 30, 2020 10:19 pm

Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg has named Crystal Pruitt and Debbie Parks to a committee she formed to review toxic work environments in New Jersey government and politics. Pruitt, the youngest member of the Franklin Township Council, is the chief...

Doubling up on election focus, Zwicker reintroduces ranked-choice voting bill

January 27, 2020 3:44 pm

Since entering the legislature in 2016, Assemblyman Andrew Zwicker has put much of his focus into election reforms. Zwicker reintroduced bills creating a ranked-choice voting system and allowing 17-year-olds who would be of voting age by the general election to...

Trailblazer: Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman

January 20, 2020 12:58 amJanuary 20, 2020 12:51 am

Bonnie Watson Coleman, 73, was the first African American woman to represent New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the first African American to serve as New Jersey Democratic State Chair. Watson Coleman came from a powerful political...

Lawmakers still looking to cleanup dark money bill

December 16, 2019 8:57 pm

The legislature is aiming to take another pass at a law mandating donor disclosure for certain non-profit groups, but they won’t be ready to move until lawsuits against the measure are resolved. “We introduced two other sort of cleanup bills...

Garrity becomes new Somerset Dem executive director

December 10, 2019 6:40 pm

James Garrity, a field organizer for the re-election campaign of Assemblymen Andrew Zwicker and Roy Freiman in the 16th district, has been named as the new executive director of the Somerset County Democratic organization. Garrity assumes his new post just...

New claims emerge about Zwicker-Freiman pingpong match

November 25, 2019 5:46 pmNovember 25, 2019 5:46 pm

Democratic Assemblymen in the 16th legislative district are changing their stories about who won a pingpong game filmed for one of their 2019 re-election campaign ads. In October, Assemblyman Roy Freiman said he won, and Assemblyman Andrew Zwicker claimed there...

Assemblyman Roy Freiman (D-Hillsborough)

LD16 Dems unconcerned about lame duck harming re-election chances

November 25, 2019 5:40 pmNovember 27, 2019 12:30 pm

Democrats in the 16th legislative district aren’t concerned about a lame duck agenda laden with controversial bills imperiling their chances at re-election in 2021. “No, because I don’t really see them as liberal issues. I think what do you need...