January 22, 2021
New Jersey Globe
  • State
    • Governor
    • Legislature
  • Local
    • Atlantic
    • Bergen
    • Burlington
    • Camden
    • Cape May
    • Cumberland
    • Essex
    • Gloucester
    • Hudson
    • Hunterdon
    • Mercer
    • Middlesex
    • Monmouth
    • Morris
    • Ocean
    • Passaic
    • Salem
    • Somerset
    • Sussex
    • Union
    • Warren
  • Power List
  • Year in Review
  • Voter’s Guide
  • The O’Toole Chronicles
  • New Jersey Globe Power Hour

Tag: George McGovern

Labor Leader: George Norcross spent 16 years as South Jersey AFL-CIO president

September 7, 2020   12:04 amSeptember 6, 2020   12:24 am
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...
Read More

Labor Leader: Paul J. Krebs, last president of NJ CIO served one-term in Congress

September 7, 2020   12:01 amSeptember 6, 2020   12:24 am
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...
Read More

Bramnick says baby bonds is ‘Murphy’s Florio toilet paper’ moment

August 26, 2020   2:38 pmAugust 26, 2020   2:39 pm
Thirty years ago, thousands of politically inactive New Jerseyans joined a grassroots tax revolt after Gov. Jim Florio proposed a $2.8 billion tax increase. Assembly Minority Leader Jon Bramnick says Gov. Phil Murphy’s baby bonds proposal will receive Florio “I...
Read More

In New Jersey, Nixon, Reagan landslides didn’t help GOP candidates

February 27, 2020   12:02 amFebruary 26, 2020   10:50 pm
Ronald Reagan carried New Jersey by 672,307 over Walter Mondale in 1984, 60%-39%, but his landslide win of the state’s sixteen electoral votes didn’t have much of an effect on the races for U.S. Senate and Congress. Democrat Bill Bradley...
Read More

No real coattails for Nixon, Reagan in landslide re-election victories

February 27, 2020   12:01 amFebruary 26, 2020   10:39 pm
Presidential re-election landslides don’t have the kind of coattails people think, although there hasn’t been one since 1972 and comparing seemingly ancient election results like these are admittedly apples and oranges. Richard Nixon carried everywhere but Massachusetts and the District...
Read More

LBJ, Nixon, Reagan swept all 21 New Jersey counties

February 17, 2020   12:11 amFebruary 16, 2020   6:53 pm
Just 22,091 votes separated John F. Kennedy from Richard M. Nixon in the contest for New Jersey’s sixteen electoral votes in the 1960 presidential election. Kennedy won 50% to Nixon’s 49%, but Nixon carried 14 of New Jersey’s 21 counties....
Read More

The time the media took down a congressman from Boonton

November 1, 2019   12:28 pmNovember 1, 2019   12:38 pm
If the Daily Record hadn’t died before Tony Bucco did, the race for State Assembly in the 25th district could be entirely different. In the old days, when daily newspapers provided intensive local news coverage, politicians like Anthony M. Bucco...
Read More

Posts navigation

1 2 … 4 Next

Follow Us

Editor: David Wildstein, david@njglobe.com
|
Reporter: Nikita Biryukov, nikita@njglobe.com
General Manager/Advertising: Kevin Sanders, kevin@njglobe.com
Sea of Reeds
  • New Jersey Globe
  • Book and Film Globe
  • California Globe
  • Fine Art Globe
  • Modern Consensus
  • Rock and Roll Globe
  • Wine and Whiskey Globe
© 2021 New Jersey Globe
  • About Us
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Advertise with us