Bob Dole turns 96
Bob Dole, who turned 96 today, served with 27 New Jerseyans during his 35 years in Congress — five in the Senate, where he represented Kansas from 1969 to 1996, and 22 in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he...
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The best party switching story ever
It should come as no surprise to New Jerseyans that the greatest party switching story comes out of Hudson County. In 1954, ten-term Rep. Edward Hart (D-Jersey City) gave up his congressional seat so that he could get an appointment...
Democrats haven’t won 7th since 1954
If Tom Malinowski unseats Leonard Lance in New Jersey’s 7th district, he’ll become the first Democrat to hold the seat since 1956. The district, albeit in various configurations, is the seat the Republicans have held the longest in the state....
Brendan Gill’s Amateur Hour
Winner Losers BRIAN STACK BRENDAN GILL The Union City Mayor draws a crowd of more than 3,000 people for an incredible spectacle of grandeur and pageantry that put his massive hometown popularity on display for statewide officials. He’s unopposed in...
A great NJ labor union feud and the last Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race
The last New Jersey Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey was Paul Krebs, labor leader and one-term congressman from Livingston. His story involves one of the great New Jersey labor union feuds. The account starts in...