Bernard Kenny Archives

In Memoriam

November 21, 2019 6:47 pmNovember 21, 2019 7:12 pm

Bernard Kenny, the son of former Senate Majority Leader Bernie Kenny, died on November 20. He was 36. Robert Waldron, Sr., a former Atlantic Highland councilman, died on November 12. He was 87. Waldron served in the U.S. Army during...

The year the Assembly had three party switchers

October 19, 2019 4:32 pmOctober 19, 2019 4:35 pm

After Assemblywoman Arline Friscia decided to switch parties and seek re-election as a Republican in August 2003, then-Assembly Speaker Albio Sires removed her as Assembly Labor Committee Chair and replaced her with Joseph Egan, a freshman Democrat from New Brunswick....

A coup d’état in the State Assembly — and the week of five governors

August 13, 2019 1:46 amAugust 13, 2019 1:44 am

Politics stopped for a week on September 11, 2001 after the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center. The Republican gubernatorial candidate, former Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler, was in Israel on 9/11 and unable to return to New Jersey...

Senate moves Addiego desk to Dem side

January 31, 2019 5:07 amJanuary 30, 2019 11:36 pm

Dawn Addiego will sit with the Democrats today – her first Senate session since switching parties on Monday. Addiego’s desk on the Senate floor has been moved to the third row on the Democratic side, where she will sit between...

Where will Addiego sit?

January 28, 2019 6:48 pm

The New Jersey Office of Legislative Services has two days to physically move State Sen. Dawn Addiego’s desk in the New Jersey State Senate from the Republican side. Addiego now sits in one of the Republican rows in the Senate,...

Addiego is first Senate party switcher since Zane

January 28, 2019 4:17 pmJanuary 28, 2019 4:35 pm

If State Sen. Dawn Addiego (D-Evesham) wins re-election as a Democrat in 2021, she would be the first party switcher to hold a seat in the New Jersey Legislature since the current State Constitution was adopted in 1947. She would...

Michelle Sobolewski, veteran legislative staffer, dies

April 8, 2018 10:30 pmApril 8, 2018 11:32 pm

Michelle Sobolewski, a veteran of New Jersey politics since the 1970’s years, passed away on April 4 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 62. Friends say she was a fighter until the end. Sobolewski started her career working...