Bob Damminger Archives - New Jersey Globe

How Steve Sweeney got to the Senate

March 29, 2018 2:03 amMarch 29, 2018 5:45 pm

Steve Sweeney won a State Senate seat in 2001 after a feud between State Senator Raymond Zane and Gloucester County Democratic Chairman Michael Angelini over competition between the two over government legal contracts they both wanted. Zane was one of...

John D. Burzichelli, former mayor, dies at 83

March 17, 2018 9:28 pmMarch 19, 2018 8:31 am

John D. Burzichelli., a former Mayor of Paulsboro and the father of Assemblyman John J. Burzichelli, passed away today. He was 83. Burzichelli, a Republican, first ran for Councilman in Paulsboro in 1964, but lost in the Democratic landslide that...

Trailblazing South Jersey Politician Dies

January 21, 2018 11:33 am

Elwood Hampton, who became the first black Mayor of a South Jersey town that was 77% white – and later the first black Freeholder in Gloucester County, died on January 17. He was 93. As a young man growing up...