Donald DiFrancesco Archives - Page 2 of 5

Trailblazer: Justice James Coleman, Jr.

January 20, 2020 12:49 amJanuary 20, 2020 12:42 am

James H. Coleman, Jr., 85, the son of a sharecropper who was forced to attend racially segregated public schools in Lawrenceville, was the first African American to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court. Coleman joined the New Jersey Department...

John Bennett ousted as Woodbridge administrator

January 2, 2020 9:38 pmJanuary 2, 2020 10:57 pm

John O. Bennett III, a former Co-Senate President who spent 3 ½ days as the governor of New Jersey in 2002, has been let go from his post as the Woodbridge Township Business Administrator, the New Jersey Globe has learned....

Payne endorses Jones for Democratic State Chairman

November 19, 2019 1:50 pmNovember 19, 2019 2:39 pm

Rep. Donald Payne, Jr. (D-Newark) has endorsed LeRoy Jones, Jr. for New Jersey Democratic State Chairman. Payne had previously told the New Jersey Globe that he wasn’t ready to choose between Jones and the incumbent, John Currie. “I honestly believe...

Kean re-elected Minority Leader

November 7, 2019 2:16 pmNovember 7, 2019 3:42 pm

Senate Minority Leader Thomas Kean, Jr. was unanimously re-elected to his leadership post today, which will make him the longest-serving legislative leader in New Jersey history. Kean’s fourteen Republican colleagues announced yesterday that they were supporting him for another term....

Christie institute may give Murphy a boost

August 16, 2019 2:12 pmAugust 17, 2019 9:47 am

Gov. Chris Christie’s new public policy institute and the renewed spotlight that comes alongside it may help Gov. Phil Murphy and his Democratic counterparts in the legislature. “Murphy was always the post-Christie governor, and he’s always going to be the...

If you’re under 45, you may have missed the epoch period of New Jersey politics

August 13, 2019 1:46 amAugust 13, 2019 11:12 am

The current drama of New Jersey politics doesn’t hold a candle to the events that occurred between 1999 to 2004 – a five-year period of constant folly that causes politicos over the age of 45 to appear a bit unfazed...

2001: Whitman resigns and DiFrancesco drops out

August 13, 2019 1:45 amAugust 13, 2019 1:47 am

President-elect George W. Bush announced in December 2000 that he would nominate New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman to serve in his cabinet as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Next in New Jersey’s line of succession was Senate...