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Booker still a 2020 U.S. Senate candidate

February 1, 2019 6:59 amFebruary 1, 2019 3:01 am

Cory Booker remains a candidate for re-election to the United States Senate in 2020. The New Jersey approved a new law last October that would allow Booker to run for president while simultaneously seeking to keep his Senate seat. Booker...

Presidential nominees don’t run for another office

October 23, 2018 10:51 am

Some history to go along with the proposed legislation that would allow Cory Booker to run for president or vice president in 2020 while simultaneously seeking re-election to the United States Senate. No major party presidential nominee has ever run...

The Story of Sills

October 17, 2018 1:02 amOctober 17, 2018 1:03 am

A primer on gravitas-filled Arthur J. Sills, the respected founder of Peter Verniero’s law firm, Sills Cummis & Gross and for a time one of the New Jersey’s most powerful political insiders. After Harvard Law School, Sills went to work for...

Some Rush Holt Trivia

October 16, 2018 2:37 pm

Just a little trivia about Rush Holt, a Democrat who represented New Jersey’s 12th district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1999 until his retirement in 2015. Holt is celebrating his 70th birthday today. Holt was born in West...

New Jersey’s first Italian-American Speaker

October 8, 2018 9:44 amAugust 22, 2021 3:41 pm

One of the first Italian-born politicians to hold a major public office in New Jersey was Anthony Siracusa. Siracusa was born in Mesa, Italy in 1894, the son of naturalized Americans who were visiting Italy. His uncle was Anthony Ruffu,...

D.C. conservatives raising money for Webber

March 22, 2018 10:37 amMarch 23, 2018 1:08 am

Jay Webber heads to Washington tonight to raise money for his campaign to succeed Rodney Frelinghuysen in Congress. U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) will be the featured guest at the event at an event that highlights Webber’s connections to top...