Frank Gargiulo Archives - New Jersey Globe

How Sacco got to the N.J. Senate

February 24, 2022 9:02 am

When Nicholas Sacco decided he wanted the 32nd district Senate seat nearly 30 years ago, two years after he became Mayor of North Bergen, he just took it. The incumbent in 1993 was Thomas Cowan of the Operating Engineers union,...

How Bob Menendez became a mayor

January 3, 2020 9:30 am

It’s a story that happens often in New Jersey politics, where cliques and factions sometimes create toxic environments within one party in control of local government. That was in the case in Galloway on Thursday night, where a Republican township...

Joseph Simunovich, top New Jersey political figure, dies at 78

June 18, 2019 9:43 pmJune 19, 2019 9:01 am

Joseph J. Simunovich, a popular and influential fixture in North Jersey politics for the last six decades, passed away this evening. He was 78. Simunovich served twelve years as a Hudson County Freeholder and later as chairman of the New...

Sacco slate sworn in

May 21, 2019 2:01 pmMay 21, 2019 2:50 pm

North Bergen Mayor Nick Sacco and his slate of incumbent commissioners were sworn in early Tuesday afternoon. The ceremony on the steps of North Bergen’s township hall featured heavy praise of Sacco, who was elected to his tenth term on...

Sacco clobbers Wainstein in North Bergen race

May 14, 2019 8:55 pmMay 15, 2019 1:44 am

North Bergen Mayor Nicholas J. Sacco won an overwhelming landslide victory over challenger Larry Wainstein as voters re-elected him to a 10th term on the township commission on Tuesday evening. Sacco won a head-to-head contest against Wainstein with 69%, 7,768...

Wainstein attacks Sacco for Republican ties

May 7, 2019 12:49 pmMay 7, 2019 12:59 pm

North Bergen mayoral candidate Larry Wainstein hit back at Mayor Nick Sacco after the latter attempted to link the challenger to former Gov. Chris Christie Monday. “Sacco is at it again, telling the public one thing and doing another,” Wainstein...

Sacco campaign launch draws crowd of 1,000

March 11, 2019 9:54 pmMarch 12, 2019 9:14 am

Mayor Nicholas Sacco’s re-election campaign kickoff drew some of the state’s top Democrats and a crowd of more than 1,000 to North Bergen Monday night. “We believe that you don’t make economic progress without social progress. You don’t make social...