Bob Hugin Archives - New Jersey Globe

Cumberland freeholders face challenge from incumbent they dropped from line

July 4, 2020 3:22 pmJuly 4, 2020 3:31 pm

One of most competitive freeholder primaries in New Jersey next week is in Cumberland County, where incumbent Jack Surrency is running off-the-line after the county Democratic organization declined to support him for re-election. The winners of the primary could face...

Murphy fights racism from behind Woodrow Wilson’s desk

June 10, 2020 7:39 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy acknowledged the former President Woodrow Wilson’s troubled history on race Thursday, but he did not say whether it was reason enough to stop using the former New Jersey governor’s desk. Last week, a picture of Murphy taking...

Gloucester GOP candidates: N.J. should reopen

May 26, 2020 12:06 pm

The Republican candidates for Gloucester County freeholder — George W. Shivery, Jr., Chris Konawel and Nick DeSilvio – think Gov. Phil Murphy should stop picking winners and losers and smartly reopen businesses. “Let commonsense prevail and smartly get the state...

N.J. hasn’t tossed an incumbent U.S. Senator in a general in 78 years

April 22, 2020 2:19 pmApril 22, 2020 8:39 pm

Democrat Cory Booker has some factors working for him as he seeks re-election to the United States Senate this year: strong favorables from the gold standard of independent pollsters; more than $2 million raised less than three months after ending...

Flanagan has $2,234 cash-on-hand in race against Booker

April 15, 2020 8:14 pm

Tricia Flanagan is sitting on a $2,234 warchest in her bid to become the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate against Cory Booker in New Jersey. Flanagan had raised $14,836 so far, including $4,567 during the first three months of 2020....

Opinion: Bloomberg Self-financing in Recent Presidential Campaign Makes Past NJ Mega-Spenders Look Like Skinflints

April 1, 2020 11:53 am

OPINION In any other election year, it would have been major news when billionaire Tom Steyer dropped out of the Democratic primary campaign on February 29, 2020. After all, he had just spent $267 million of his personal wealth on...

Murphy mulls all-VBM primary election

March 18, 2020 2:00 amMarch 18, 2020 9:10 am

State and local election officials are working on a plan to cancel in-person voting for the June primary election and replace it with a vote-by-mail only election as the state deals with the coronavirus pandemic, the New Jersey Globe has...