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Deadline to challenge primary petitions is today

April 3, 2020 8:49 amApril 3, 2020 10:26 am

The deadline to file challenges to nominating petitions for the June 2 primary election is at the close of business today. Several candidates risk being tossed off the ballot simply by cutting it close on the number of signatures they...

Five Republicans, one Democrat take on Gottheimer

March 30, 2020 7:06 pmMarch 31, 2020 2:57 am

Rep. Josh Gottheimer filed for re-election with more than 400 signatures Monday. He’s running under organizational slogans in each of the fifth congressional district’s counties except Sussex, where a slogan is still pending. Glen Rock councilwoman Arati Kreibich, Gottheimer’s progressive...

Biden files for New Jersey primary

March 26, 2020 4:41 pmMarch 26, 2020 4:58 pm

Joe Biden filed petitions to run in the New Jersey Democratic presidential primary today and so far, is unopposed in a contest for the state’s 146 delegates. The filing deadline is 4 PM on March 30. President Donald Trump has...

Seven House candidates file petitions so far

March 17, 2020 5:00 pm

Seven candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives have already filed their nominating petitions to run in the June 2 primary. The filing deadline is March 30, unless Gov. Phil Murphy and the legislature extend it. Political operatives from both...

Steinhardt and Warren stay out of Gottheimer race, for now

February 11, 2020 10:36 amFebruary 11, 2020 12:09 pm

Republican State Chairman Doug Steinhardt is staying out of the nine-candidate race to pick a Republican opponent for Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-Wyckoff), at least for now. As the Warren County Republican chairman, Steinhardt submitted a list of endorsed candidates to...

McCann raises $33k in 4th quarter, has $31k cash-on-hand

January 29, 2020 3:49 pm

Republican John McCann raised $125,553 for his bid to unseat Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-Wyckoff) in New Jersey’s 5th district and has $31,049 cash-on-hand, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. McCann brought in $33,296 during the 4th quarter...

DiRisio ends challenge to Gottheimer

January 10, 2020 9:05 pmJanuary 11, 2020 3:13 pm

Dana DiRisio is suspending her campaign for the Republican congressional nomination in New Jersey’s 5th district. “I entered this race for one reason, and one reason only: to defeat Josh Gottheimer, expose his ineptness and duplicity as an elected official,...