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Tag: George McGovern

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

February 15, 2021   12:18 amFebruary 14, 2021   7:36 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 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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