Chris Russell Archives - New Jersey Globe

NRCC separates Richter from his consultants

December 24, 2019 11:04 amDecember 26, 2019 11:28 am

Some consultants and staffers have left David Richter’s congressional campaign after the National Republican Congressional Committee told them they would be blackballed if they worked against a GOP incumbent in a primary. The announcement last week that Rep. Jeff Van...

Progressive write-in candidates seek to take votes from Andrzejczak

October 29, 2019 2:33 pmOctober 30, 2019 11:27 am

The 7,116 Democrats in the 1st district who voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential primary have a decision to make in the State Senate race: do they vote for a Republican who is chairing Donald Trump’s New Jersey...

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...