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...
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 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...
The deadline to replace candidates on the general election ballot is coming up next week, and so far, there doesn’t appear to be any big changes on the horizon. Rumors that State Sen. Anthony R. Bucco (R-Boonton) would resign so...
Decades of infighting among Parsippany Republicans led to Democratic mayors for 33 of the last 53 years in a solidly Republican town that once provided huge pluralities for GOP candidates running statewide and in Morris County. With intra-party quarrels on...
The possibility of an Aura Dunn vs. Lisa Bhimani campaign for State Assembly in the 25th district this year means a match-up of two candidates who lost their first campaigns for public office. That’s the way politics works in Morris...
Democrats have picked the leader of one of the state’s most influential grassroots progressive organizations to challenge Jay Webber for State Assembly in the 26th district. Christine Clarke, the environmental director for Action Together New Jersey and the Jefferson Democratic...