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How Frank Pallone got to Congress

December 13, 2021 11:27 amDecember 13, 2021 5:35 pm

Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-Long Branch), the powerful chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, could face an aggressive challenge in 2022 from Sue Kiley, a Monmouth County Commissioner who was re-elected last month with 61% of the vote....

Pallone hires experienced fundraiser to run re-election campaign

July 14, 2021 9:53 amJuly 14, 2021 9:55 am

A former fundraiser for Bill Bradley and Howard Dean will manage Frank Pallone’s campaign for re-election to a 19th term in Congress in 2022. Emily Wurgaft Egan will also take over Pallone’s fundraising operation to help the powerful House Energy...

Pallone begins 18th term in Congress today

January 3, 2021 11:27 amJanuary 3, 2021 12:46 pm

A primer on Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr., who remains one of the most powerful people on Capitol Hill as he begins his 18th term in the U.S. House of Representatives and his third year as the chairman of the House Energy...

Henry Cioffi, former three-term Long Branch mayor, dies at 87

April 30, 2020 3:35 pmDecember 23, 2020 1:00 pm

Henry R. Cioffi, a former three-term mayor of Long Branch whose endorsement of 30-year-old Frank Pallone for a city council seat helped launch the political career of one of the nation’s most powerful congressman, died on April 27. He was...

Clem Sommers, former Monmouth freeholder, dies at 91

April 17, 2020 5:47 pm

Clement V. Sommers, a popular former Monmouth County freeholder and Oceanport mayor, died on April 15. He was 91. Sommers was elected to the freeholder board in 1980 when he and fellow Republican Frank A. Self narrowly unseated two-term Democratic...

Threatening to run if he didn’t get the line almost cost Howard 24 years in Congress

April 12, 2020 3:51 pmJuly 25, 2021 12:51 pm

A political misstep in a closed-door party screening committee might have cost James J. Howard the chance to spends 24 years as a Democratic congressman from a heavily Republican Monmouth-Ocean district. Howard, one of the most politically adept, naturally-gifted politicians...

In New Jersey, Nixon, Reagan landslides didn’t help GOP candidates

February 27, 2020 12:02 amFebruary 26, 2020 10:50 pm

Ronald Reagan carried New Jersey by 672,307 over Walter Mondale in 1984, 60%-39%, but his landslide win of the state’s sixteen electoral votes didn’t have much of an effect on the races for U.S. Senate and Congress. Democrat Bill Bradley...