Gerald Cardinale Archives - New Jersey Globe

Schepisi won’t say why she spurned incumbents, but post-primary reconciliation’s on the table

May 6, 2021 12:53 pm

State Sen. Holly Schepisi (R-River Vale) declined to say what pushed her to back primary opponents challenging incumbent Assembly members running on Bergen County’s Republican organization line. “Honestly, my statement is all I’m doing,” she told the New Jersey Globe...

Murphy backs continued existence of senatorial courtesy

May 3, 2021 3:12 pmMay 4, 2021 12:48 am

Gov. Phil Murphy supported keeping in place an unwritten Senate rule that allows members to indefinitely block gubernatorial nominees from their home county Monday, backing a measure that has been used to stymie the governor’s own nominations. “I have to...

The time a write-in campaign worked

April 14, 2021 12:01 amApril 13, 2021 10:03 pm

Write-in campaigns are largely uphill, but not impossible under special circumstances. In 1994, Democrats in New Jersey’s 11th district had a critical electoral crisis. Their candidate for Congress against Republican Rep. Dean Gallo (R-Parsippany) was supposed to be Daniel Tauriello,...

Auth backs Schepisi for Senate, will seek re-election to Assembly

March 19, 2021 12:24 pmMarch 19, 2021 2:19 pm

Assemblyman Bob Auth (R-Old Tappan) has ruled out running for the State Senate and will seek re-election to his 39th district Assembly seat in the June Republican primary. Auth came within eight votes of winning the seat earlier this month...

Doherty will succeed Cardinale as ranking Republican on Senate Judiciary Committee

March 15, 2021 9:42 amMarch 15, 2021 9:49 am

One of the most conservative members of the New Jersey State Senate will become the new ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, putting Michael Doherty (R-Oxford) in a key role as the Senate considers the nomination of former ACLU lawyer...

Codey praises Wainer Apter’s ‘strength of character and intellect’

March 14, 2021 10:51 pm

Former Gov. Richard J. Codey (D-Roseland), the longest serving State Senator in New Jersey history, appears likely to support Gov. Phil Murphy’s nomination of Rachel Wainer Apter as an Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court. “Ms. Wainer Apter’s...

Next up: a race for Schepisi’s Assembly seat

March 10, 2021 12:39 amMarch 19, 2021 12:11 pm

The closeness of the special election convention for State Senate in the 39th district likely signals another close race when Republican county committee gathers again to fill State Sen.-elect Holly Schepisi’s soon-to-be vacant State Assembly seat. Schepisi defeated Assemblyman Bob...