Harry Reid Archives

Biden picks senior Menendez aide for State Department post

April 23, 2021 6:13 pmApril 24, 2021 6:54 pm

President Joe Biden will nominate a top aide to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez to serve as Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for the Bureau of Political and Military Affairs. The White House on Friday announced that Jessica...

Murphy picks Binotto to manage re-election bid

December 21, 2020 8:45 amDecember 21, 2020 10:01 am

Mollie Binotto, a New Jersey-born top national political operative who ran Mikie Sherrill’s 2018 race for Congress, will serve as campaign manager for Gov. Phil Murphy’s re-election campaign. Murphy is seeking to become the first Democratic governor to win re-election...

Murphy to name Egan, Zubair to Rutgers Board of Governors, replacing two incumbents

December 10, 2020 10:00 amDecember 11, 2020 10:28 am

Gov. Phil Murphy is replacing the only Latino member of the Rutgers University Board of Governors, as well as a key ally to Democratic powerbroker George Norcross, the New Jersey Globe has learned. Murphy will name Kevin Egan, a New...

Rosenstein, Blistan to headline Norcross fundraiser

August 27, 2019 11:18 amOctober 15, 2019 6:29 pm

Leaders of the progressive wing of the New Jersey Democratic Party continue to give early support to the re-election of Rep. Donald Norcross (D-Camden) next year, seemingly closing the door on a possible challenge to him in the 2020 Democratic...

New Jerseyan will head Booker national press team

March 11, 2019 9:21 amMarch 11, 2019 12:02 pm

New Jersey native Julie McClain Downey has been tapped as the director of state communications Cory Booker’s presidential campaign, one of four top-level press shop hires the campaign announced this morning. She held the same post four years ago on...