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Tag: George McGovern

For Weinberg, it’s the same fight in different centuries

May 13, 2022   7:55 pmMay 13, 2022   8:49 pm
Nearly 50 years ago, six month before the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision, a young delegate from Teaneck went to the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach to fight for the inclusion a reproductive freedom plank...
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Biden 1972 consultant worked on Dick Coffee for governor campaign in 1973

February 21, 2022   12:00 amFebruary 19, 2022   4:31 pm
The first link between Joe Biden and New Jersey politics came a few months after he won a seat in the United States Senate. Biden was just 29 when he unseated incumbent J. Caleb Boggs, a two-term Republican Senator who...
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Labor Leader: George Norcross spent 16 years as South Jersey AFL-CIO president

September 6, 2021   12:08 amSeptember 4, 2021   3:41 pm
George E. Norcross (1928-1998), the father of a U.S. Congressman, the managing partner at a major New Jersey law firm, and the state’s most powerful Democratic powerbroker, spent his career as a labor leader. Norcross served as president of the...
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Labor Leader: Paul J. Krebs, last president of NJ CIO served one-term in Congress

September 6, 2021   12:07 amSeptember 4, 2021   3:50 pm
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...
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Frank Askin, legendary ACLU counsel and Rutgers professor, dies at 89

July 6, 2021   8:29 pmJuly 7, 2021   12:15 am
Frank Askin, an iconic constitutional scholar and activist who spent 36 years as the general counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, died on July 1.  He was 89. Askin was twice a candidate for the U.S....
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Pat Sebold re-elected Livingston Democratic chair, post she’s held since 1976

June 14, 2021   11:18 pmJune 14, 2021   11:44 pm
Pat Sebold, who may be the longest-serving Democratic municipal chair in the state, was re-elected on Monday for a three-year term for the post she first won in 1976. She has led Livingston Democrats since John B. Duff resigned to...
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A story about Democratic grass roots activists in New Jersey

February 15, 2021   12:19 amFebruary 15, 2021   12:16 am
The emergence of a serious grass roots, activist movement within the New Jersey Democratic Party has happened before. One certainty is that Donald Trump’s presidency, which ended last month,  engaged new people into state and local politics from both people...
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