Chris Russell Archives - New Jersey Globe

With Van Drew gone, GOP sees opportunity in LD1

August 12, 2019 2:56 pmAugust 12, 2019 3:38 pm

For the moment, Michael Testa’s campaign likes the fact that Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-Dennis) is in Congress and not in the New Jersey statehouse. The Cumberland County GOP chairman is seeking to oust State Sen. Bob Andrzejczak (D-Middle), a...

Incumbent freeholders want ELEC to investigate Dinsmore payment

May 12, 2019 4:19 pmMay 13, 2019 11:30 am

Incumbent Morris County freeholders on Sunday asked the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission to investigate a $42,000 payment primary challenger Donald Dinsmore made to a Wyoming-based consulting firm. Freeholders Doug Cabana, Tom Mastrangelo and Kathy DeFillippo asked ELEC to...

Larry Weitzner’s Jamestown Associates wins 8 Reed Awards

February 22, 2019 12:12 pmFebruary 22, 2019 2:29 pm

Jamestown Associates, Larry Weitzner’s national political media consulting firm that began as a local shop working for New Jersey Republican candidates, won eight Reed Awards for their work on the 2018 campaign. Jamestown won more awards than any other political...

First lady hits MacArthur on women’s issues

October 25, 2018 3:28 pmOctober 25, 2018 10:00 pm

First Lady Tammy Murphy headlined a press conference hitting Rep. Tom MacArthur over his record on women’s issues. While Murphy’s attacks on the congressmen were broad and brief, others present at the event, including New Jersey Citizen Action Program Director...

GOP bashes unions for not disavowing Youngkin

October 9, 2018 9:30 pm

Burlington County Republicans are trashing three labor unions for not pulling their endorsements of Democrat George Youngkin for freeholder. Youngkin suspended his campaign on September 27, hours after the Burlington County Times revealed that he had been arrested for attempting to...

Former bosses back Kim credentials

June 6, 2018 2:30 pmJune 25, 2018 4:29 pm

Rep. Tom MacArthur and his Democratic challenger Andy Kim are again brawling over the latter’s qualifications, but this time, Kim has some help from his former bosses. Backing Kim’s credentials, which MacArthur’s campaign has said the former Obama staffer inflated,...

MacArthur says Kim was just a ‘notetaker’

May 11, 2018 9:02 pmMay 14, 2018 8:29 pm

Rep. Tom MacArthur’s campaign is taking aim — perhaps with limited success — at apparent discrepancies in his opponent’s resume, claiming that former national security staffer Andy Kim has inflated his experience in a campaign biography. “Andy Kim is attempting...