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Testa, Dunn get committee assignments

December 10, 2019 9:19 amDecember 10, 2019 11:16 am

New Jersey’s newest legislators have received their committee assignments for the lame duck session. State Sen. Michael Testa, Jr. (R-Vineland) has been assigned to the Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Labor Committee. Assemblywoman Aura Dunn (R-Mendham) is serving on...

Sweeney, Coughlin will be active in LD25 special elections

December 4, 2019 1:28 pmDecember 4, 2019 1:41 pm

Democratic legislative leaders intend to play actively in two 25th district special elections next year. “I’m going to do whatever we need to do,” Senate President Steve Sweeney said. “I lost a seat. I want to gain one back.” State...

Dunn sworn in

November 25, 2019 2:47 pm

Assemblywoman Aura Dunn was sworn in Monday. Dunn, former top aide to Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, won a landslide victory at a special convention held to fill the seat State Sen. Anthony R. Bucco won in the legislature’s lower chamber last...

Dunn will get prime Assembly desk, for her first seven weeks

November 24, 2019 4:32 pmNovember 25, 2019 11:41 am

Assemblywoman-elect Aura Dunn (R-Mendham) will literally get a front row seat in Assembly chambers when she takes office tomorrow. The New Jersey Globe has learned that Dunn will sit at the desk previously occupied by Anthony M. Bucco (R-Boonton) before...

New Jersey will have record number of women legislators on Monday, but only for 50 days

November 22, 2019 10:51 amNovember 22, 2019 3:58 pm

With the election of Aura Dunn to the State Assembly, Morris County now has two women legislators for the first time since 1973, when Josephine Margetts (R-New Vernon) and Ann Klein (D-Morris Township) served in the legislature. BettyLou DeCroce (R-Parsippany)...

Aura Dunn wins big for Bucco Assembly seat

November 21, 2019 8:07 pmNovember 22, 2019 4:02 pm

Aura Dunn, a former top aide to Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, has been elected to the New Jersey State Assembly, winning a special election convention to fill the remaining seven weeks of Anthony M. Bucco’s current term in the 25th district....

In Morris County, losing is sometimes the path to victory

November 21, 2019 1:51 pm

After losing Republican primaries for Morris County Freeholder in 2018 and the State Assembly in 2019, Aura Dunn may win a seven-week term in the Assembly in tonight’s special election convention to replace Anthony M. Bucco (R-Boonton). That’s the way...