Bruce Walter Archives - New Jersey Globe

How Sacco got to the N.J. Senate

February 24, 2022 9:02 am

When Nicholas Sacco decided he wanted the 32nd district Senate seat nearly 30 years ago, two years after he became Mayor of North Bergen, he just took it. The incumbent in 1993 was Thomas Cowan of the Operating Engineers union,...

How Bob Menendez became a mayor

January 3, 2020 9:30 am

It’s a story that happens often in New Jersey politics, where cliques and factions sometimes create toxic environments within one party in control of local government. That was in the case in Galloway on Thursday night, where a Republican township...

Sacco clobbers Wainstein in North Bergen race

May 14, 2019 8:55 pmMay 15, 2019 1:44 am

North Bergen Mayor Nicholas J. Sacco won an overwhelming landslide victory over challenger Larry Wainstein as voters re-elected him to a 10th term on the township commission on Tuesday evening. Sacco won a head-to-head contest against Wainstein with 69%, 7,768...

The Republican screw up that made Menendez Mayor

March 13, 2018 2:02 amMarch 14, 2018 2:16 am

The success of Bob Menendez’s political career might be because of bad staff work. The story starts in 1976, when Hudson County gave Jimmy Carter a paltry 23,605 vote margin against Gerald Ford. Assembly Speaker Joseph LeFante (D-Bayonne), largely blamed...

How Sacco got to the Senate

March 12, 2018 5:16 amFebruary 23, 2022 11:21 pm

When Nicholas Sacco decided he wanted the 32nd district Senate seat in 1993, two years after he became Mayor of North Bergen, he just took it. That’s the kind of clout a North Bergen mayor has in that legislative district....