Arlene Quiñones Perez Archives

Matos is new LUPE PAC president

June 10, 2019 3:06 pmJune 11, 2019 10:16 am

Laura Matos, who has worked for three New Jersey governors and played a key role in many political campaigns, is the new president of the Latinas United for Political Empowerment Political Action Committee (LUPE PAC). Matos, an executive at the Kivvit...

Civil rights group spar over county committee seats

April 15, 2019 5:51 pm

Two civil rights advocacy groups are in a spat over a state law requiring equal halves of the state’s county committee seats be filled by members of both sexes. In February, Garden State Equality sent a letter to State Attorney...

Latino leaders urge passage of drivers license bill

April 3, 2019 1:26 pmApril 3, 2019 4:28 pm

More than 100 of the state’s Latino leaders urged Gov. Phil Murphy and legislative leaders to pass a bill that would allow immigrants in the country illegally to obtain drivers licenses in a letter Wednesday. “The REAL ID Act disproportionately...

Quinones Perez supports Currie

December 21, 2018 11:47 pmDecember 22, 2018 12:08 am

Democratic State Chairman John Currie will have the backing of Arlene Quinones Perez, the Hunterdon County Democratic chair, when he seeks re-election in 2020. “The support is certainly there for John Currie,” Quinones Perez told the New Jersey Globe. Quinones...

Lance’s Twinkle, Twinkle moment

September 27, 2018 9:09 am

This may be Leonard Lance’s Twinkle, Twinkle moment: a recording of him saying “I tend not to believe the charges” in the confines of a Rutgers College Republican Club meeting discussing allegations made by Christine Blasey Ford that U.S. Supreme...

Hunterdon Dems voting for a Lance opponent

February 4, 2018 9:32 am

Seven Democratic congressional candidates are in Rep. Leonard Lance’s home county this morning in pursuit of the Hunterdon County Democratic organization line at their convention in Frenchtown. The county chair, Arlene Quinones Perez, has personally endorsed Linda Weber for Congress,...

Seven Democrats challenge Lance

February 2, 2018 2:20 am

There is no clear frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for Congress in New Jersey’s seventh district, where seven candidates are competing for the chance to take on five-term Republican Leonard Lance. Linda Weber has secured organization lines in Somerset and...