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The time an assemblyman won off the line

June 1, 2019 9:12 pm

It’s not uncommon for legislators to be dumped from the organization line and those who fight back hardly ever win. One of the most memorable examples of an assemblyman winning without party support was in 1979, when the Middlesex Democratic...

Tom Byrne warchest at $1.3 million

April 15, 2019 12:05 amApril 15, 2019 1:04 pm

After Frank Lautenberg cited the rigors of fundraising as the reason for his February 1999 announcement that he would not seek re-election to a fourth term in the United States Senate, former New Jersey Democratic State chairman Tom Byrne was...

The story of Ed Patten

June 25, 2018 5:10 amDecember 27, 2021 1:55 pm

There was a time when Perth Amboy was the epicenter of power in Middlesex County politics and the hometown of Edward Patten, one of the state’s most colorful and influential politicians for nearly fifty years. The gregarious, boisterous, joke-telling Patten...