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Assembly budget committee gets three new members

January 17, 2020 12:36 pmJanuary 17, 2020 1:00 pm

The powerful Assembly Budget Committee has three new members. William Spearman (D-Camden) will take the seat of his former running mate, Patricia Egan Jones (D-Barrington). Jones did not seek re-election last year. Ralph Caputo (D-Nutley) replaces John McKeon (D-West Orange). ...

Muller will head NJ Bloomberg campaign

January 13, 2020 11:34 amJanuary 13, 2020 12:07 pm

Michael Muller, one of New Jersey’s top political consultants and the architect of the massive Democratic majority in the State Assembly, has been named state director of Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign. The hiring of Muller signals Bloomberg’s intention to seriously...

Murphy doesn’t think GOP is done in Burlington

December 5, 2019 3:40 pmDecember 6, 2019 9:23 pm

Assemblywoman Carol Murphy (D-Mount Laurel) doesn’t think Republicans have lost Burlington County forever. “I think it goes in cycles. I’m not going to say they’re done,” Murphy said. “They’ve gone through the same thing Democrats went through many years ago....

New Jersey will have record number of women legislators on Monday, but only for 50 days

November 22, 2019 10:51 amNovember 22, 2019 3:58 pm

With the election of Aura Dunn to the State Assembly, Morris County now has two women legislators for the first time since 1973, when Josephine Margetts (R-New Vernon) and Ann Klein (D-Morris Township) served in the legislature. BettyLou DeCroce (R-Parsippany)...

Carol Murphy, Herb Conaway re-elected

November 5, 2019 8:01 pmNovember 5, 2019 7:57 pm

The New Jersey Globe is projecting that Democratic incumbents Carol Murphy and Herb Conaway have been re-elected to the New Jersey State Assembly in the 7th district. Murphy is expected to be the top vote-getter in her successful bid for...

Peggy Nelson, worked for Frelinghuysen, Morris GOP officials, dies at 78

November 3, 2019 8:54 am

Peggy Harding Nelson, a vibrant and respected political insider who served as Rodney Frelinghuysen’s district director and worked for several other prominent Morris County elected officials, died on October 25. She was 78. Nelson began working in the district office...

NOW NJ PAC skips endorsements for many incumbent Dems

October 7, 2019 12:03 pm

New Jersey National Organization for Women PAC passed over many Democratic incumbents in a list of endorsements issued Monday. The group, which backed 34 Democratic Assembly candidates and one independent, made no endorsements in districts one, two, three, five, eight,...