Dan Benson Archives - New Jersey Globe

13 newcomers win safe-seat legislative primaries unopposed

June 6, 2023 8:01 pmJune 6, 2023 8:49 pm

The New Jersey Legislature will be gaining dozens of brand-new members in this year’s elections – and a huge number of them just won their primaries unopposed. In the 9th district, based in Ocean County, two new Republicans will soon...

McKeon, Collazos-Gill get CWA’s backing

May 30, 2023 11:05 am

The Communication Workers of America (CWA), a progressive force in New Jersey politics, endorsed 16 Democratic state legislative candidates today, including five candidates who face challengers in next week’s primary election. In the 27th legislative district, the CWA is backing...

Elections Transparency Act heads to governor’s desk

March 30, 2023 3:35 pmMarch 30, 2023 10:12 pm

On a bipartisan but controversial vote, both chambers of the New Jersey Legislature passed the so-called Elections Transparency Act today; the bill now goes to the desk of Gov. Phil Murphy, who is widely expected to sign it. The vote...

A look at the 13 legislative districts hosting contested primaries in 2023

March 29, 2023 12:04 pmMarch 29, 2023 12:55 pm

Filing day has come and gone; though petition challenges and write-in candidacies could still shake some things up, we basically know who is running for the New Jersey Legislature this year and who isn’t. A total of 258 candidates filed...

Republican Assembly slate in LD14 gets off-the-line challenger

March 27, 2023 1:56 pmMarch 28, 2023 10:43 am

Bina Shah, a Republican who ran for the 14th legislative district in 2019 and 2021, will run again for the Assembly this year despite not getting party support. “I ran in 2019, when nobody wanted to run,” Shah told the...

The filing deadline is 17 days away, but primary season is already cooling down

March 10, 2023 4:00 pmMarch 13, 2023 3:13 am

The filing deadline for New Jersey’s 2023 primary is still 17 days away; the primary itself is a full 71 days after that. But thanks in large part to the power of the county line, primary season is already calming...

Greenstein still staying neutral in 14th district contest between McCoy, Carabelli

March 9, 2023 2:29 pm

With both of her legislative district’s Democratic county conventions now completed, 14th district State Sen. Linda Greenstein (D-Plainsboro) said today that she’s still remaining neutral in the Assembly primary battle between Tennille McCoy and Rick Carabelli, though she affirmed her...