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Hugin doubled price of live-saving cancer drug, report says

July 23, 2018 10:00 amJuly 23, 2018 11:49 pm

Jackie Trapp was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a terminal but treatable blood cancer in 2015. After chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, she was put on Revlimid, a live-saving cancer drug that costs $21,197 a month. Even with good health...

Super PAC spends $1.5 million attacking Hugin

July 12, 2018 10:46 pmJuly 15, 2018 1:52 pm

A new super PAC, Patients for Affordable Drugs Action, is spending an estimated $1.5 million on a TV ad slamming Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Hugin for earning more than $100 million as head of a pharmaceutical company that raised...

Menendez campaign launches new website

July 12, 2018 1:56 pmJuly 13, 2018 2:21 pm

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez is devoting more resources to attacking rival Bob Hugin over his time as CEO of pharmaceutical giant Celgene. The incumbent’s campaign launched a new website, HealthNewsNJ.com, that straddles the line between a news aggregator and propaganda...

Hugin attends Romney summit in Utah

June 11, 2018 1:15 pmJune 25, 2018 4:23 pm

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Hugin spent the weekend in Utah attending Mitt Romney’s annual political retreat. Hugin’s campaign did not disclose that the retired Celgene CEO was out of state. In response to a request for the candidate’s schedule,...

Menendez: Hugin’s money could make a dent

June 2, 2018 4:22 pmJune 4, 2018 1:45 am

PLAINFIELD – U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez isn’t taking anything for granted. While he’s running for reelection against a Republican for statewide office in a decidedly-blue state, he acknowledges that the money of Republican front runner Bob Hugin could make the...

Hugin staffer named to Mendham post

March 12, 2018 5:10 amMarch 12, 2018 11:51 am

Sarah Neibart, the deputy campaign manager for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Hugin, is expected to be sworn in tonight as a new Mendham Township Committeewoman. The 25-year-old political operative, who worked on Chris Christie’s campaign for president and then...

Ex-rival vouches for Hugin’s pro-life credentials

February 16, 2018 1:37 am

A longtime New Jersey pro-life advocate says that he’s satisfied with U.S. Senate candidate Bob Hugin’s position on abortion. “I know that he opposes late term abortion and will support any judges proposed by President Trump,” said Richard Pezzullo, who...