Christine Todd Whitman Archives

Murphy campaign jabs Ciattarelli for Wainer Apter criticism

March 15, 2021 12:51 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy’s campaign isn’t taking Jack Ciattarelli’s criticism of his new Supreme Court nominee, whom the republican gubernatorial candidate called an “inexperienced activist,” lightly. “Mr. Ciattarelli’s characterization of Ms. Wainer Apter is meritless and misogynistic, but no surprise when...

New Jersey governors and presidential primaries

February 15, 2021 12:13 amFebruary 14, 2021 7:02 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy was the first governor to stay out of the presidential race in 28 years, leaving Democratic county chairs — and in some cases, Democratic County Committee members — to award the organization line in the 2020 New...

Trump pardons Gilmore amid wave of clemencies on last day in office

January 20, 2021 2:58 amJanuary 20, 2021 9:25 am

President Donald Trump pardoned former Ocean County Republican Chairman George Gilmore amid a wave of commutations and clemencies in the early morning hours of his last day in office. Gilmore held control over politics in Ocean County for more than...

Trailblazer: Justice James J. Coleman

January 18, 2021 12:05 amJanuary 16, 2021 10:36 pm

James H. Coleman, Jr., 85, the son of a sharecropper who was forced to attend racially segregated public schools in Lawrenceville, was the first Black to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court. Coleman joined the New Jersey Department of...

Murphy body slams Van Drew for rejecting Electoral College count

January 4, 2021 1:56 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy lambasted Democrat-turned-Republican Jefferson Van Drew on Monday for refusing to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election, calling congressional Republicans seeking to “overthrow a free and fair election” as “shameful, dangerous, undemocratic and unpatriotic.” “It...

Mehta breaks Case record for most votes ever received by a New Jersey Republican

November 17, 2020 12:31 pmNovember 17, 2020 7:18 pm

Republican Rik Mehta has set the record for the most votes ever received by a Republican statewide candidate in New Jersey after he passed Clifford P. Case on Monday. Mehta is currently at 1,745,013 votes statewide, with more ballots still...

Booker sets record for most statewide votes in N.J. history

November 11, 2020 2:11 pmNovember 11, 2020 4:50 pm

U.S. Senator Cory Booker has already set a record for the greatest number of votes ever received by a statewide candidate in New Jersey. Booker has already passed the 2.2 million mark, with another 500,000 votes still uncounted across the...