Dean Gallo Archives - Page 2 of 6

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...

DeGroot making moves towards county commissioner campaign

January 9, 2023 1:19 pmJanuary 9, 2023 4:07 pm

Fresh off his unsuccessful bid for Congress last year, former Assistant Passaic County Prosecutor Paul DeGroot appears to be gearing up for a county commissioner primary campaign against Republican incumbent Tayfun Selen – the very man DeGroot beat in last...

Morris Democrats pick county commissioner candidates

March 27, 2022 9:39 pmMarch 28, 2022 12:27 am

Morris County Democrats have picked T.C. McCourt, Alice Sharma and Judy Hernandez to run for county commissioner on the organization line. Democrats have not won a countywide office in Morris since Douglas Romaine was elected freeholder in the 1973 Watergate...

Barbara Curran, former assemblywoman, dies at 81

January 29, 2022 10:28 pm

Barbara A. Curran, a former assemblywoman, Board of Public Utilities Commissioner and Superior Court Judge who became the first woman to serve in all three branches of state government, died on Saturday morning. She was 81. Curran became involved in...

Teacher union backs Clarke for Senate in LD-26

August 30, 2021 9:55 amAugust 30, 2021 9:56 am

The American Federation of Teachers New Jersey has endorsed Democrat Christine Clarke for State Senate in the 26th district State Senate race. Clarke, the Jefferson Democratic municipal chair and an environmental activist, is challenging four-term Senate Minority Whip Joseph Pennacchio....

Frank Askin, legendary ACLU counsel and Rutgers professor, dies at 89

July 6, 2021 8:29 pmJuly 7, 2021 12:15 am

Frank Askin, an iconic constitutional scholar and activist who spent 36 years as the general counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, died on July 1. He was 89. Askin was twice a candidate for the U.S....

The time a write-in campaign worked

April 14, 2021 12:01 amApril 13, 2021 10:03 pm

Write-in campaigns are largely uphill, but not impossible under special circumstances. In 1994, Democrats in New Jersey’s 11th district had a critical electoral crisis. Their candidate for Congress against Republican Rep. Dean Gallo (R-Parsippany) was supposed to be Daniel Tauriello,...