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The Road to Mike Testa

December 2, 2019 12:23 amDecember 2, 2019 2:45 pm

When Michael Testa., Jr. takes his seat in the New Jersey State Senate next week, he will become just the sixth senator to represent the 1st legislative district since it was created in 1973 when New Jersey first adopted a...

Montclair State University professor Brigid Callahan Harrison is considering running against Jeff Van Drew.

Van Drew will face primary challenge if he votes against Trump impeachment; Brigid Harrison mulls House bid

November 25, 2019 9:22 pmNovember 27, 2019 12:04 pm

Freshman Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-Dennis) will almost certainly face a Democratic primary challenge if he votes against impeaching President Donald Trump and could lose contests for organization lines at county conventions early next year, six Democratic leaders told the...

Bill Hughes, former New Jersey congressman who fought to protect coastline, dies at 87

October 31, 2019 10:25 amOctober 31, 2019 1:05 pm

William J. Hughes, who spent 20 years as a Democratic congressman in a heavily Republican part of New Jersey and later served as U.S. Ambassador to Panama under President Bill Clinton, died at his home on Wednesday. He was 87....

The time Tom Giblin ran against Tom Kean

September 4, 2019 11:07 am

The deadline to replace candidates on the general election ballot is coming up next week, and so far, there doesn’t appear to be any big changes on the horizon. Rumors that State Sen. Anthony R. Bucco (R-Boonton) would resign so...

Van Drew co-sponsors move to extend ERA ratification deadline

September 2, 2019 2:01 am

Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-Dennis) is the co-sponsor of a move to extend the deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. All eleven Democrats in the New Jersey House delegation are supporting the effort. Congress approved the ERA in 1972,...

Van Drew, not yet an ERA ratification sponsor, touts Violence Against Women Act in campaign e-mail

August 26, 2019 7:41 pmAugust 27, 2019 12:07 pm

Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-Dennis) is using Women’s Equality Day to boost his fundraising database. He’s collecting e-mail addresses in an online petition calling on Senate Mitch McConnell to allow the Senate vote on re-authorizing the Violence Against Women Act....

The prescience of Bob Torricelli

August 14, 2019 12:50 pmAugust 14, 2019 4:48 pm

A victory speech delivered by Democrat Bob Torricelli on the night of his election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982 looks extraordinarily prescient nearly 37 years later. “Ours is the first political party to fail to develop a...