Christine Todd Whitman Archives

Darcy Draeger is a real farmer, but Bucco attacks her anyway

October 4, 2019 2:02 amOctober 4, 2019 3:41 pm

After giving up her Wall Street career, Democratic Assembly candidate Darcy Draeger is a full-time farmer. Draeger’s small farm in rural Chester Township has 24 sheep, 15 chickens – down from 19 after an unfortunate incident with a raccoon –...

Christopher Dietz, onetime Democratic powerbroker, dies at 83

September 16, 2019 7:19 pmSeptember 16, 2019 8:33 pm

Christopher V. Dietz, a former Union County Democratic Chairman who headed the State Parole Board under Gov. Brendan Byrne, and then spent seven years as a Superior Court Judge died on September 14. He was 83. One a rising star...

NJ Transit boss shaves thousands off his property tax bill as a sheep farmer

September 16, 2019 12:01 amSeptember 15, 2019 11:33 pm

The Murphy administration official who runs New Jersey Transit receives a huge break on his property taxes because he raises sheep at his Mendham Township home. Kevin Corbett, who earns $281,000-a-year as president and CEO of the state’s beleaguered transit...

NJ Democrats say anti-Pelosi punches won’t work

August 29, 2019 5:35 pm

The New Jersey Democratic State Committee today pushed back on Republican criticism of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi headlining their state party conference in Atlantic City next month. “Nancy Pelosi is the highest ranking elected Democrat in the country and a...

Stockton to honor Florio, Whitman

August 21, 2019 2:43 pm

Former Governors Jim Florio and Christine Todd Whitman – opponents in the 1993 gubernatorial election – will receive Distinguished Achievement Awards from the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy a Stockton University. “These two outstanding New Jersey leaders embody...

If you’re under 45, you may have missed the epoch period of New Jersey politics

August 13, 2019 1:46 amAugust 13, 2019 11:12 am

The current drama of New Jersey politics doesn’t hold a candle to the events that occurred between 1999 to 2004 – a five-year period of constant folly that causes politicos over the age of 45 to appear a bit unfazed...

2001: Whitman resigns and DiFrancesco drops out

August 13, 2019 1:45 amAugust 13, 2019 1:47 am

President-elect George W. Bush announced in December 2000 that he would nominate New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman to serve in his cabinet as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Next in New Jersey’s line of succession was Senate...