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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...