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Pete Dawkins, once GOP dream candidate, gets married

July 14, 2019 8:17 pmJuly 15, 2019 11:55 am

Gen. Pete Dawkins, the 1988 Republican candidate for United States Senate against Frank Lautenberg, was married on Tuesday to Mary Martin Ourisman, the U.S. Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean under President George W. Bush. This is the second...

Perot won 16% in New Jersey vs. Clinton, Bush

July 9, 2019 11:38 am

Ross Perot, a billionaire businessman who sought the presidency as an independent in 1992 and 1996, died today. He was 89. Perot won 16% of the vote in New Jersey in 1992, when Bill Clinton carried the state by 79,341...

A Tom Kean ‘what-if’

December 9, 2018 6:28 pmDecember 9, 2018 6:37 pm

This is one of those alternate universe stories about what might have been, had the things went a little differently in Trenton. In a redistricting deal made by the leaders of the New Jersey Legislature in 1966, one of three...

New Jersey’s George Bush

December 2, 2018 5:30 pm

When George Bush endorsed Bob Dole for president in 1988, it made national headlines. One of the many oddities of 1980’s New Jersey politics was during the twelve years George H.W. Bush served as vice president and president of the...

Bush Texas rival was three-time NJ U.S. Senate candidate

December 1, 2018 3:40 pmDecember 1, 2018 3:41 pm

A New Jersey man was one of George Bush’s first opponents. Robert Morris sough the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate five times, three times in New Jersey and twice in Texas – both times against Bush. In the 1950’s, the...