Charles Catrillo 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...

Lee Lichtenberger, former Hudson GOP chairman, dies at 66

December 29, 2018 1:19 amDecember 31, 2018 3:07 pm

Lee S. Lichtenberger, a former Hudson County Republican Chairman who served during a brief resurgence of the Hudson GOP in the 1980’s, passed away on Friday evening. He was 66. He was elected Secaucus Republican Municipal Chairman in 1978 and...

Mejia raises no money in unopposed bid to follow Prieto

October 21, 2018 4:21 pm

Assemblyman Pedro Mejia (D-Secaucus) is running unopposed for the remaining fourteen months of ex-Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto’s term in the State Assembly and has not raised any money in the heavily Democratic 32nd district. Mejia won a special election convention...

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....