Bob Menendez Archives - New Jersey Globe

Chavez-Fernandez is Gallego’s new chief of staff

November 30, 2022 10:10 amNovember 30, 2022 10:31 am

A New Jerseyan who served as a top aide to U.S. Senator Bob Menendez has been named chief of staff to Rep. Ruben Gallego, a four-term congressman from Arizona and a rising star in national Democratic politics. Raphael Chavez-Fernandez served...

Independent candidates got around 1.3% of N.J.’s congressional vote

November 17, 2022 12:23 pm

Every candidate who won a congressional seat in New Jersey this year was a Democrat or Republican – no surprises there. But 29 independent and minor party candidates also ran for Congress, combining for 31,949 votes statewide, or 1.26% of...

Menendez wins race to succeed Sires in 8th congressional district

November 8, 2022 8:28 pmNovember 8, 2022 9:16 pm

The New Jersey Globe projects that Democratic Port Authority Commissioner Rob Menendez has overwhelmingly won election to Congress, defeating Republican Marcos Arroyo in the solidly Democratic 8th congressional district. Menendez will succeed Rep. Albio Sires (D-West New York), who chose to...

Across New Jersey, elected officials commemorate Sandy’s 10th anniversary

October 28, 2022 2:37 pmOctober 30, 2022 2:17 pm

With Hurricane Sandy nearly ten years in the rearview mirror – the anniversary of the hurricane’s landfall on the Jersey Shore will arrive tomorrow – politicians across New Jersey today commemorated the disaster and lauded the progress the state has...

What do top legislative Democrats think about possible Menendez investigation? No comment

October 27, 2022 5:38 pmOctober 28, 2022 9:17 am

Yesterday, Semafor and several other news outlets reported that U.S. Senator Bob Menendez – five years removed from the dismissal of previous corruption charges – is once again under federal investigation. But if top Democrats in the legislature have thoughts...

Reports: New federal investigation into Menendez underway

October 26, 2022 3:42 pm

As first reported by Semafor and later corroborated by NBC News and Politico New Jersey, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez is once again facing a federal investigation, five years after a jury deadlocked on corruption charges in an earlier case. According...

The race for the Senate is a race for Bob Menendez’s Foreign Relations chairmanship

October 14, 2022 3:48 pmOctober 15, 2022 1:37 pm

U.S. Senator Bob Menendez isn’t on the ballot this year – but his chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is. When Democrats flipped two Senate seats in Georgia in early 2021, it allowed Menendez to become possibly the most...