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Jim Bouton, McGovern delegate from New Jersey and New York Yankees pitcher, dies

July 10, 2019 9:48 pmJuly 11, 2019 6:04 am

Jim Bouton, a former New York Yankees pitcher and best-selling author who died on Wednesday, was a New Jersey delegate to the 1972 Democratic National Convention pledged to George McGovern. Bouton refused to vote for McGovern’s vice presidential pick, Thomas...

Biden 1972 consultant worked on Dick Coffee for governor campaign in 1973

April 28, 2019 1:04 pmApril 29, 2019 2:00 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...

Head of tax incentives firm was a teen council candidate in Montclair

March 30, 2019 3:12 pmApril 3, 2019 11:57 am

Jay C. Biggins, head of a consulting firm that helps corporations negotiate tax incentives, started out as a teenage political prodigy in Montclair. A whistleblower told the New Jersey Tax Incentive Task Force on Thursday that a consulting firm – identified...

David Rothschild, 94, was Eugene McCarthy delegate in NJ

March 2, 2019 4:48 pm

David Rothschild, a former Millburn Democratic municipal chairman and a delegate to the 1968 Democratic National Convention pledged to Eugene McCarthy, died on March 1. He was 94. McCarthy won nineteen district delegate seats in New Jersey in the June...

LBJ, Nixon, Reagan swept all 21 New Jersey counties

February 18, 2019 5:50 amFebruary 18, 2019 5:47 am

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....

The last NJ First Lady to run for Congress

February 6, 2019 1:07 amFebruary 6, 2019 1:50 am

If Mary Pat Christie runs for Congress, she wouldn’t be the first former First Lady of New Jersey to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1974, Helen Stevenson Meyner defeated freshman Rep. Joseph Maraziti (R-Boonton) in what was...

Bob Leopold, former Livingston mayor, dies

January 13, 2019 3:20 pm

Former Livingston mayor Robert Leopold, known for his extraordinary intelligence and a lifelong advocacy of social justice, passed away on January 12. He was 93. Leopold first sought office in 1972 as a Democratic candidate for the Livingston Township Council. Republicans...