Bill Martini Archives - New Jersey Globe

The curse of the Longworth Building

December 1, 2018 5:24 pmDecember 1, 2018 11:18 pm

Good news for Tom Malinowski and Jeff Van Drew: New Jersey congressmen who spend their first two years in the Cannon House Office Building are statistically more likely to get re-elected than freshmen who draw an office in Longworth. Fourteen...

New Jerseys 20 Living ex-Congressmen

October 15, 2018 9:15 amOctober 15, 2018 1:40 pm

Rush Holt is 70 today, the 11th oldest of the nineteen living former Congressmen from New Jersey. The oldest is Cornelius Gallagher, who celebrated his 97th birthday last March. The Bayonne Democrat was first elected to Congress in 1958, making...

Six things about Jay Webber

February 3, 2018 1:50 pm

Six things to know about Jay Webber, who announced today that he would seek the Republican nomination for Congress in New Jersey’s 11th district: 1. Webber grew up in Passaic County, played baseball at Johns Hopkins. He was a Rhodes...