Andy Maguire Archives - New Jersey Globe

Elizabeth Holtzman had a huge impact on N.J. politics. Here’s how

June 5, 2022 12:36 amAugust 19, 2022 5:33 pm

Elizabeth Holtzman, an 80-year-old former congresswoman from New York considering a political comeback 50 years after her first election, is eternally linked to New Jersey politics. In 1972, Holtzman, a Harvard Law School graduate and former aide to New York...

78% of successful House challengers were political unknowns

May 11, 2020 3:16 pmMay 14, 2020 10:25 am

In a race for Congress, New Jerseyans are historically more likely to vote for someone they had never really heard of against an incumbent Member of Congress than they are to go with someone who has been winning elections for...

Former congressmen still holding on to warchests

February 20, 2020 12:48 pmFebruary 20, 2020 1:39 pm

Six former congressmen from New Jersey have a combined warchest of nearly $900,000, according to reports filed with the federal election commission. And Frank Lautenberg, who has been dead for nearly seven years, has $89,803 remaining in his campaign account....

Wave year elections in New Jersey

February 19, 2018 11:21 am

Two modern era wave elections happened so long ago that a comparison to New Jersey in 2018 is apples and oranges. But both are examples of highly-charged mid-term elections that allowed Democrats in the wake of the Watergate scandal to...

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....