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Evesham Democrats pick candidates

March 24, 2020 10:09 amMarch 24, 2020 10:20 am

Evesham Democrats have announced that Eddie Freeman and Ginamarie Cordero Espinoza will try to flip the last two Republican seats on the township council. Espinoza is a longtime player in New Jersey politics. She serves as constituent services director for...

Evesham GOP seeks to hold two council seats

March 13, 2020 12:55 pm

Evesham Republicans are running two millennial candidates, Drew Wilson and Mark Mancuso, in a bid to hold on to their last two council seats. The incumbents, Bob DiEnna and Ken D’Andrea, are not seeking re-election. Wilson is a project manager...

South Jersey goes for Biden in massive endorsement

March 11, 2020 3:35 pmMarch 11, 2020 3:35 pm

South Jersey Democrats moved solidly behind Joe Biden for president today in a gargantuan organizational juggernaut that includes endorsements from Senate President Steve Sweeney, seven Democratic county chairs and every Democratic legislator in the southern part of the state. The...

South Jersey Dems fume over GOP inclusion in Murphy ethics reforms

February 24, 2020 7:46 pmFebruary 25, 2020 11:35 am

South Jersey Democrats are incensed over Gov. Phil Murphy’s inclusion of two of their top legislative targets on a package of ethics reform bills unveiled last week. Murphy tapped Assemblyman Ryan Peters (R-Lumberton) and State Sen. Chris Brown (R-Ventnor), who...

Bateman committed to running regardless of what his district looks like in ’21

January 30, 2020 1:46 pmJanuary 30, 2020 1:55 pm

State Sen. Kip Bateman (R-Branchburg) is committed to running for re-election without having seen what his district will look like in 2021, though he said he’d like to see his district turn a little less blue after the lines are...

Montclair State University professor Brigid Callahan Harrison is considering running against Jeff Van Drew.

Addiego, Taliaferro, Derella endorse Harrison for Congress

January 29, 2020 8:48 am

It’s like two ships passing in the night. A South Jersey legislator who switched parties one year ago is now taking sides in a Democratic primary to pick a candidate to run against a congressman who switched parties last month....

Controversial vaccinations bill, stalled in State Senate, will be back after better head count

January 17, 2020 3:46 pmJanuary 18, 2020 11:39 am

Lawmakers expected a bill eliminating the religious exemption for vaccinations to cause a stir, but its lead Senate sponsor didn’t foresee it prompting hundreds, perhaps thousands, of protesters to assail the state house for days on end. That bill failed...