Bob Andrzejczak Archives - New Jersey Globe

Former Democratic state senator reappointed to state farm post by Trump admin

August 21, 2025 1:01 pm

President Donald Trump has sought to undo most of what former President Joe Biden accomplished in office, but his administration has chosen to retain at least one appointee from the Biden era: New Jersey Farm Service Agency executive director Bob...

Van Drew says he’d like Andrzejczak to keep USDA post

January 16, 2025 12:22 pmJanuary 16, 2025 12:23 pm

Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-Dennis) said today that he hopes Bob Andrzejczak, a former Democratic state senator from Cape May County and one of Van Drew’s close allies during his days in the state legislature, gets to keep his job...

Bender joins Public Strategies Impact

June 13, 2023 9:41 am

Samantha Bender, until recently a senior legislative aide to Gov. Phil Murphy, has joined Public Strategies Impact (PSI) as a lobbyist. “I am delighted that Samantha Bender has joined our PSI team,” PSI managing partner Roger Bodman said in a...

Dispatches from a wild week in N.J. politics

January 28, 2022 10:19 pm

The 2021 elections are over, the next major set of elections aren’t for four months, and the state legislature has only just started to rev up its 2022-23 session – and yet it’s still been an action-packed week in New...

Testa breaks record for 1st district Senate candidates

November 17, 2021 8:38 pm

Republican Michael Testa, Jr. (R-Vineland) has set records for the biggest plurality ever recorded for a State Senate candidate in the 1st legislative district, and for the most total votes received. Testa defeated Democrat Yolanda Garcia Balicki by 16,975 votes,...

Republicans crushing Democrats in 1st legislative district fundraising

October 12, 2021 12:28 pm

Democrats held the 1st legislative district as recently as 2019, but fundraising reports released today by the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC) show that the party does not seem to be mounting a strong effort to take back...

Dim Democratic hopes in the 1st legislative district as parties turn sights elsewhere

August 3, 2021 11:05 amSeptember 14, 2021 10:04 am

For 12 years, Democrats could call New Jersey’s 1st legislative district their own. Led by then-State Sen. Jeff Van Drew (R-Dennis), the Democratic Party held the district’s Senate seat and both Assembly seats for 6 consecutive cycles between 2007 and...