Florence Dwyer Archives

Van Drew votes against ERA ratification extension after supporting, co-sponsoring it last year

March 17, 2021 9:08 pmMarch 18, 2021 1:14 am

Thirteen months after voting to remove the deadline to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment – a measure he co-sponsored — Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-Dennis) voted against it today. Van Drew was one of five Republicans to support the measure...

NJ-11 ’20 race just 5th time in N.J. history where two women ran for Congress

February 9, 2021 12:26 amFebruary 9, 2021 10:38 am

One takeaway from the race between Mikie Sherrill and Rosemary Becchi in New Jersey’s the 11th district in 2020: since women won the right to vote in 1920, this is just the 5th time both major parties have nominated a...

The history of Malinowski’s congressional seat

November 23, 2020 12:01 amJanuary 3, 2021 1:51 pm

The re-election of Tom Malinowski marked the third time in more than 100 years that New Jersey’s 7th district elected and re-elected a Democrat. Before Malinowski unseated five-term Rep. Leonard Lance (R-Clinton Township) in 2018, Republicans had held the 7th...

Labor Leader: Paul J. Krebs, last president of NJ CIO served one-term in Congress

September 7, 2020 12:01 amSeptember 6, 2020 12:24 am

The last New Jersey Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey was Paul Krebs (1912-1996), labor leader and one-term congressman from Livingston. His story involves one of the great New Jersey labor union feuds. The account starts...

New Jersey’s longest-living congressional candidate ran with LBJ in 1964

August 18, 2020 10:22 am

With the passing of Paul Porreca on Friday evening, the longest-living New Jersey congressional candidate is Richard J. Traynor, who ran as a Democrat against Rep. Florence P. Dwyer (R-Elizabeth) in 1964. Now 91 and living in Maine, Traynor is...

N.J. voter registration plummets during coronavirus pandemic

June 3, 2020 2:45 pmJune 3, 2020 7:08 pm

COVID-19 is slowing the growth of voter registration in New Jersey. The state’s voter rolls increased by just 2,815 in May, a number that reflects a 522% decrease over May voter registration in 2019 and a 1480% decrease from New...

Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-Ringoes). Photo by Kevin Sanders for the New Jersey Globe.

NJ-7 Democratic registration expands in April

May 6, 2020 1:39 pm

New Jersey’s battleground 7th congressional district became slightly more Democratic in April after flipping the registration edge last month. In early March, the 7th had 382 more Republicans than Democrats, but in April that number shifted to a Democratic edge...