Gerald McCann Archives - New Jersey Globe

Round 1: The Race for Acting Mayor of Jersey City

March 17, 2018 4:04 pmMarch 19, 2018 8:32 am

Let’s pretend Steve Fulop isn’t being totally straightforward — that he runs for Congress in 2018 and wins. That would trigger a special election for Mayor of Jersey City in 2019. After January 3, 2019, when Fulop would resign to...

Round 2: The Special Election for Mayor of Jersey City

March 17, 2018 4:04 pmMarch 19, 2018 8:32 am

Editor’s Note: Read Round 1 first. After Steve Fulop’s imaginary congressional run – he says he’s not a candidate for Albio Sires’ seat, but whatever – and after the City Council figures out who will fill a short ten-month stint...

The Republican screw up that made Menendez Mayor

March 13, 2018 2:02 amMarch 14, 2018 2:16 am

The success of Bob Menendez’s political career might be because of bad staff work. The story starts in 1976, when Hudson County gave Jimmy Carter a paltry 23,605 vote margin against Gerald Ford. Assembly Speaker Joseph LeFante (D-Bayonne), largely blamed...

How Sacco got to the Senate

March 12, 2018 5:16 amApril 2, 2018 9:35 am

When Nicholas Sacco decided he wanted the 32nd district Senate seat in 1993, two years after he became Mayor of North Bergen, he just took it. That’s the kind of clout a North Bergen mayor has in that legislative district....

In Hudson, it’s not a war, it’s a warette

March 9, 2018 10:41 amMarch 10, 2018 3:04 pm

If you’ve seen a Hudson County political war, you’ll know the fight to dump Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise isn’t one of them – at least right now. It’s really just a warette. The last real war was in 1987. ...