Dean Gallo Archives - New Jersey Globe

78% of successful House challengers were political unknowns

May 11, 2020 3:16 pmMay 14, 2020 10:25 am

In a race for Congress, New Jerseyans are historically more likely to vote for someone they had never really heard of against an incumbent Member of Congress than they are to go with someone who has been winning elections for...

For primary challengers to incumbent House members, history isn’t on their side

April 20, 2020 5:59 pm

It happens every two years, when candidates like John Caramanna, Dennis Speed and Jeanne Martines emerge as self-proclaimed contenders for the U.S. House of Representatives in primaries against incumbents. With eight of New Jersey’s twelve House incumbents facing challengers in...

Onuoha to seek GOP House nomination as a write-in candidate

April 10, 2020 2:07 pmApril 10, 2020 8:10 pm

Christian Onuoha will seek the Republican nomination for Congress in New Jersey’s 6th district as a write-in candidate after failing to obtain the 200 signatures to get him on the ballot in the July 7 primary election. Onuoha’s lone rival...

In New Jersey, Nixon, Reagan landslides didn’t help GOP candidates

February 27, 2020 12:02 amFebruary 26, 2020 10:50 pm

Ronald Reagan carried New Jersey by 672,307 over Walter Mondale in 1984, 60%-39%, but his landslide win of the state’s sixteen electoral votes didn’t have much of an effect on the races for U.S. Senate and Congress. Democrat Bill Bradley...

Democratic State Committeeman Paul Bontempo

Like his father, Bontempo thinks state chairman is the Governor’s choice

November 20, 2019 7:09 pmNovember 21, 2019 11:39 am

Paul Bontempo is the longest-serving Democratic State Committee member in New Jersey history. He was 26 when he was elected to represent Morris County in 1977, back in the days when each county had two seats. He’s been there for...

Morris GOP relic tries to hold on

November 8, 2019 9:48 amNovember 8, 2019 2:28 pm

Peter V. Mancuso has been a fixture in Morris County politics since he started out protesting the state’s plans to extend Route 24 to Route 287 in the 1970’s. Now one of the last surviving members of the John Dorsey/Tony...

The history of special elections in the 25th district

September 26, 2019 6:55 amSeptember 26, 2019 12:00 pm

The November special election convention to fill the late Senator Anthony R. Bucco’s seat will be the third since the district was created for the 1973 election. That number could reach four, if Anthony M. Bucco gets the chance to...