Brigid Callahan Harrison Archives

Harrison, Kennedy continue to spar over Wellpath contributions

May 27, 2020 1:52 pm

For more than a month, Brigid Callahan Harrison has been pushing Amy Kennedy to return campaign contributions linked to a shadowy private correctional health care services business facing over hundreds of lawsuits. Kennedy’s husband, former Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-Rhode...

In Atlantic City, Thomas-Fields will bracket with Hamm

May 27, 2020 9:06 am

Atlantic City Democratic mayoral candidate Pamela Thomas-Fields will bracket with U.S. Senate candidate Lawrence Hamm in the July 7 mostly all vote-by-mail Democratic primary. The incumbent, Marty Small, is on Atlantic County Democratic organization line in the primary. Thomas-Fields has...

Brigid Callahan Harrison announced her candidacy for Congress. Photo by Kevin Sanders for New Jersey Globe.

The time Brigid Harrison took on the leader of the Pennsylvania pro-life movement

May 26, 2020 3:28 pmMay 27, 2020 12:11 am

When Democratic congressional candidate Brigid Callahan Harrison was 26-years-old, she tried to help a pro-choice Republican take out the leading pro-life member of the Pennsylvania legislature. In 1992 – one year after Anita Hill charged that U.S. Supreme Court nominee...

Montclair State University professor Brigid Callahan Harrison is considering running against Jeff Van Drew.

Firefighters union endorses Harrison for Congress

May 26, 2020 10:58 am

The state’s largest firefighter union has endorsed Brigid Callahan Harrison for the Democratic nomination for Congress in New Jersey’s 2nd district. The New Jersey Firefighters Mutual Benevolent Association represents more than 5,000 firefighters, EMTs and dispatchers across the state. “With...

Candidates seek federal election monitors in NJ-2 House primary

May 22, 2020 2:02 pmMay 22, 2020 5:40 pm

Update – Statement from Brigid Callahan Harrison campaign manager Paul Weborg: “I’m releasing this statement on behalf of Brigid who is currently picking her daughter up from the Naval Academy. Shame on Amy for her accusatory antics. When Amy stops putting...

Progressive activists endorse Harrison

May 15, 2020 11:20 am

Three progressive leaders from the anti-nuclear weapon and gun control communities have endorsed political science professor Brigid Callahan Harrison for the Democratic nomination for Congress in New Jersey’s 2nd district. Rev. Robert Moore, the longtime executive director of the Coalition...

MacInnes endorses Harrison for Congress

May 11, 2020 10:11 am

The former president of New Jersey’s top progressive think tank is supporting Brigid Callahan Harrison for Congress in New Jersey’s 2nd district. Gordon MacInnes, a former state senator from Morris County, headed New Jersey Policy Perspective from 2012 to 2018....