Hector Lora Archives - New Jersey Globe

Lora re-elected in landslide

May 11, 2021 9:21 pmMay 12, 2021 1:36 am

Passaic Mayor Hector Lora easily defeated two challengers to win re-election Tuesday, carrying his slate of council candidates to another term. It wasn’t remotely close. Lora won with 3,913 votes, nearly 89% of all those cast. Incumbents Jose Garcia, Terrence...

ICYMI: Here’s your guide to New Jersey’s May 11 municipal elections

May 10, 2021 1:19 pmMay 10, 2021 8:14 pm

Voters in 14 New Jersey municipalities will head to the polls on May 11 for non-partisan municipal elections. Fifteen candidates are seeking office in Hackensack, where Mayor John Labrosse is running for re-election to a third term, with Deputy Mayor...

Here’s your guide to New Jersey’s May 11 municipal elections

April 29, 2021 12:01 amApril 29, 2021 8:40 am

Voters in 14 New Jersey municipalities will head to the polls on May 11 for non-partisan municipal elections. Fifteen candidates are seeking office in Hackensack, where Mayor John Labrosse is running for re-election to a third term, with Deputy Mayor...

Former Passaic NAACP president removed after anti-Semitic statements running for mayor

April 22, 2021 4:02 pmApril 22, 2021 8:29 pm

Jeffrey Dye, the former Passaic City NAACP president who was ousted over a series of anti-Semitic and anti-Latino Facebook posts, is running for mayor. Dye, who was fired from a $56,088-a-year post in Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration after the New...

With early voting signed, urban mayors take aim at Ciattarelli’s voting reform plan

March 30, 2021 2:00 pmMarch 31, 2021 10:07 am

This article was updated with comment from the Ciattarelli campaign at 7:04 p.m. A swath of Democratic urban mayors attacked Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli over his election reform platform Tuesday, charging it was in lock-step with Republican efforts to...

Schaer extols Lora integrity, says he wasn’t surprised mayor reported bribe bid

January 15, 2021 2:52 pmJanuary 15, 2021 8:49 pm

Assemblyman Gary Schaer (D-Passaic) strongly praised his former chief of staff, Passaic Mayor Hector Lora, for instantaneously reporting an attempt to bribe him. “Hector is a very special guy,” Schaer told the New Jersey Globe. “He is a minister. He...

Tested with a bribe attempt, Lora shows he couldn’t be bought

January 15, 2021 11:05 amJanuary 15, 2021 8:48 pm

When Hector Lora became mayor of Passaic in 2016, he inherited the ghosts of Alex Blanco, Sammy Rivera, and Joseph Lipari – predecessors forced from office after pleading guilty to federal crimes. Now Passaic has finally found an honest man....