Brooke Rivello Archives - New Jersey Globe

A tale of three county commissioner primaries

June 16, 2023 5:17 pmJune 25, 2023 8:07 am

County commissioner races are like the middle child of New Jersey politics. They don’t attract the same level of interest as, say, a race for Congress; at the same time, they’re not truly local in the way that a mayoral...

Off-the-line GOP candidates prevail in primary for Gloucester county offices

June 6, 2023 10:00 pmJune 6, 2023 10:32 pm

An off-the-line slate has won a close Republican primary for Gloucester County Surrogate and three county commissioner seats, dealing a serious blow to the county Republican organization, the New Jersey Globe projects. In the race for county commissioner, former Harrison...

What’s at stake in New Jersey’s ballot draw

April 5, 2023 5:06 pmApril 6, 2023 2:24 pm

Tomorrow, New Jersey will celebrate its most obscure yet consequential holiday: ballot drawing day, when county clerks conduct lotteries to determine the layout of primary ballots. Every slate that includes a contingent of county commissioner candidates has the ability to...

DiLucia loses Monroe GOP primary after party switch

June 7, 2022 9:55 pm

Monroe Mayor Richard DiLucia, who switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in March, has lost the Republican primary for a second term to Samuel Miles, a businessman and high school tennis coach who ran off the line....