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Fran Rein, Democratic consultant who ran Kennedy NJ campaign, dies at 75

October 14, 2019 11:29 amOctober 14, 2019 4:02 pm

Fran Rein, one of New Jersey’s top Democratic political operatives in the 1970s and 1980s, died this morning. She was 75. In 1980, Rein became Ted Kennedy’s New Jersey State Director during his bid to wrestle the Democratic presidential nomination...

Bradley vs. Gore in NJ: what the polls said

September 19, 2019 12:59 amSeptember 19, 2019 10:06 am

When Bill Bradley ran for president in 2000, some of the New Jersey Democratic establishment supported Al Gore — most remained neutral — but among rank-and-file home state Democratic primary voters, Bradley had the lead. In a September 1999 Quinnipiac...

All three GOP Senate candidates have run statewide before

August 24, 2019 2:53 pm

So far, all three candidates for the 2020 Republican U.S. Senate nomination to challenge Cory Booker have run statewide before. Tricia Flanagan and Stuart Meissner ran as independent candidates for the United States Senate, while Hirsh Singh sought the Republican...

The switch

August 13, 2019 1:47 amAugust 13, 2019 1:44 am

Bob Torricelli, seeking re-election to a second term in the United States Senate in 2002, was severely admonished by the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics on July 31 for accepting expensive gifts from one of his campaign contributors, David...

Bob Dole turns 96

July 22, 2019 9:02 pmJuly 22, 2019 10:11 pm

Bob Dole, who turned 96 today, served with 27 New Jerseyans during his 35 years in Congress — five in the Senate, where he represented Kansas from 1969 to 1996, and 22 in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he...

William Walls, longtime federal judge, dies

July 15, 2019 8:07 pmJuly 16, 2019 12:24 pm

William Walls, who served 25 years as a federal judge in New Jersey, has died. He was 86. The Star-Ledger first reported his passing. President Bill Clinton nominated Walls to serve as a U.S. District Court Judge in 1994, at...

Pete Dawkins, once GOP dream candidate, gets married

July 14, 2019 8:17 pmJuly 15, 2019 11:55 am

Gen. Pete Dawkins, the 1988 Republican candidate for United States Senate against Frank Lautenberg, was married on Tuesday to Mary Martin Ourisman, the U.S. Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean under President George W. Bush. This is the second...