Christine Todd Whitman Archives - Page 3 of 22

Moderate Party’s fusion voting lawsuit gets more high-profile backers

July 11, 2023 12:22 pm

A legal effort by the fledgling New Jersey Moderate Party to bring fusion voting to New Jersey has gained a number of new prominent backers, with a several notable politicians and advocacy groups filing amicus briefs today as the case...

Parsippany Republicans have been fighting for 58 years

June 24, 2023 2:25 pmJune 25, 2023 3:10 pm

Decades of infighting among Parsippany Republicans led to Democratic mayors for 35 of the last 55 years in a town that once provided huge pluralities for GOP candidates running statewide and in Morris County. But intra-party quarrels and changing demographics...

Republicans love to hate Bob Menendez. Can they find anyone to run against him?

April 28, 2023 3:20 pmApril 29, 2023 8:11 pm

For years, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez has been the guy New Jersey Republicans love to hate. Next year, they’re in luck: Menendez’s seat is up for election, giving them another chance to finally take the three-term senator down. Behind the...

Centrist Whitman-led group backs Signorello for U.S. Senate

April 24, 2023 11:10 amApril 25, 2023 9:41 am

The New Jersey arm of the Forward Party, a nascent centrist group led by former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman and 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang, made an unexpected and early endorsement this morning of Joe Signorello, the unabashedly...

New Jersey governors and presidential primaries

February 20, 2023 12:01 amFebruary 19, 2023 11:52 pm

In 2020, 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...

Trailblazer: Justice James J. Coleman

January 16, 2023 12:06 amAugust 5, 2024 9:21 am

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

Murphy has strong 52%-36% approval rating after five years as N.J. governor, poll says

January 11, 2023 11:00 amJanuary 11, 2023 3:35 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy has a healthy 52%-36% job approval ratings among registered voters at the start of his sixth year as governor of New Jersey, according to a new Monmouth University poll released this morning. Approvals for the two-term Democratic...