Bruce Cooper Archives

Pearson celebrates her lone progressive victory

July 27, 2020 3:49 pm

Former Cumberland County Freeholder Donna Pearson issued a muted celebration of her primary win. She was the only one of three progressive freeholder challengers to win at the polls this month. “This is bittersweet. It was a hard-fought battle. Our...

Musso, Castellini and Pearson win Cumberland Dem freeholder primary

July 16, 2020 9:23 pmJuly 17, 2020 9:11 am

This story was updated on July 17, 2020 at 9:04 AM. Donna Pearson staged a rare off-the-line victory in the Democratic primary for Cumberland County Freeholder. A former freeholder who has been out of office for nearly seventeen years, Pearson...

Pearson takes bigger lead in Cumberland Dem freeholder primary

July 11, 2020 4:05 pmJuly 11, 2020 4:11 pm

Donna Pearson has now surged to second place in the Cumberland County Democratic freeholder primary and incumbent George Castellini is now in third with a 149-vote lead over his running mate, Bruce Cooper. Castellini had been running a comfortable second...

Just 16 votes separate Pearson and Cooper in Cumberland Dem freeholder primary

July 9, 2020 7:25 pm

Just 17 votes off-the-line candidate Donna Pearson and organization choice Bruce Cooper in the Democratic primary for Cumberland County freeholder after more vote-by-mail ballots were counted on Thursday. Provisional ballots cast on Election Day have not yet been counted and...

Pallotta lead expands slightly, while Senate race stays close

July 8, 2020 5:16 pm

Former investment banker Frank Pallotta has slightly expanded his lead over former Cresskill Councilman John McCann, though contests for the fifth district’s Republican nomination and the GOP Senate primary remain too close to call. Pallotta is up over McCann by...

Cumberland’s Democratic freeholder race too close to call

July 8, 2020 1:42 amJuly 8, 2020 5:56 am

The Democratic race for Cumberland County Surrogate is too close to call. Freeholders Carol Musso and George Castellini, who are running on the party line, lead along with former freeholder Donna Pearson, who served two terms on the Board of...

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...