Charles Sandman Archives - New Jersey Globe

A look at federal, county and municipal races in Cape May County in 2026

July 21, 2026 2:35 pmJuly 21, 2026 4:31 pm

Cape May, New Jersey’s southernmost county, has been one of the Republican Party’s most reliable sources of votes for more than 160 years. Abraham Lincoln lost the county in 1860 but carried it in 1864, beginning a Republican presidential streak...

How Joe Maraziti got to Congress, with some tangents

November 4, 2024 11:23 pm

In the old days, when daily newspapers provided intensive local news coverage, the media could take down a congressman. Back in 1974, three months after the Watergate scandal forced Richard Nixon to resign the presidency, local coverage of another Boonton...

Pat LaRocca, Essex GOP stalwart, dies at 89

July 10, 2024 9:14 pm

Patricia M. LaRocca, a fixture in Essex County Republican politics for decades and a former Livingston Republican municipal chair, died on July 6. She was 89. She was an early supporter of Ronald Reagan and backed his bid for the...

Favorite son Curtis ‘Congress Hall’ Bashaw wins Cape May GOP convention

March 14, 2024 8:20 pmMarch 14, 2024 9:09 pm

Hotelier Curtis Bashaw won the Cape May County Republican convention tonight, securing the organization line in his home county for his U.S. Senate bid. Bashaw has considerable support in Cape May, where he has restored and operates several hotels, including...

Five N.J. governors have avoided re-election primaries and Murphy is one of them

June 6, 2021 10:34 pm

Seeking to become the first Democratic governor to win a second term in 44 years, Gov. Phil is expected to get more than 99% of the primary election vote on Tuesday – with only a handful of write-in votes stopping...

Van Drew votes against ERA ratification extension after supporting, co-sponsoring it last year

March 17, 2021 9:08 pmMarch 18, 2021 1:14 am

Thirteen months after voting to remove the deadline to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment – a measure he co-sponsored — Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-Dennis) voted against it today. Van Drew was one of five Republicans to support the measure...

David Dichter, who ran for Congress against Charles Sandman in 1968, dies at 89

January 3, 2021 12:21 pm

Dr. David Dichter, the Democratic candidate for Congress against Rep. Charles W. Sandman (R-Erma) in 1968, died on December 28. He was 89. Dichter was the second longest-living former New Jersey congressional candidate, after Richard J. Trainor, 91, the Democratic...