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Republicans take freeholder seat, but Democrats keep surrogacy in Salem

November 19, 2020 7:54 pmNovember 19, 2020 8:17 pm

Edward Ramsey has defeated Democratic Salem County Freeholder Charles Hassler, leaving Democrats with a single seat on the board, but Surrogate Nicki Burke defeated her Republican challenger to win another term. The margins in New Jersey’s smallest county were slim,...

Testa makes a play for Cumberland’s freeholder board

September 11, 2020 11:51 amSeptember 13, 2020 1:29 pm

State Sen. Mike Testa is making a play for control of his home county. With Democrats holding a broad but not insurmountable 6-1 majority on Cumberland County’s Board of Chosen Freeholders, Testa, the county’s Republican chairman, is hoping a bevy...

Charges were filed against a small-town N.J. mayor, but sewage scandal probably won’t hurt his re-election bid

September 5, 2020 6:20 pmSeptember 7, 2020 12:03 am

Criminal charges filed against a small-town mayor in a sewage scandal is a very New Jersey kind of story, but in a sort of “heads I win, tails I win” deal, it’s unlikely to affect the outcome of the general...

Happy Birthday, Jim Florio

August 29, 2020 8:16 pmAugust 30, 2020 12:02 am

Happy Birthday to former Gov. Jim Florio, who turned 83 today. Florio has been a fixture in New Jersey politics since 1969, when he won a seat in the New Jersey. He spent fifteen years as a congressman from South...

Whitman, who grew up Republican, now backing Biden

August 17, 2020 3:03 pmAugust 17, 2020 3:36 pm

When Christine Todd Whitman was six-years-old, Republican vice presidential candidate Richard Nixon campaign in Somerset County and she was asked to present a gift of some dolls for Nixon’s daughters to play with. She was a Republican born into a...

Booker gets coveted Thursday night speaking slot at Democratic convention

August 11, 2020 8:39 amAugust 11, 2020 1:23 pm

U.S. Senator Cory Booker will address the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, August 20, the same night Joe Biden will accept the Democratic presidential nomination. The theme of the final night of the convention – typically the most watched —...

In GOP stronghold of Morris County, Democrats had a much bigger primary turnout

July 26, 2020 8:21 pm

Morris County has 24,903 more Republicans than Democrats, but in a primary election held primarily through vote-by-mail ballots, Democrats turned out in much greater numbers. Turnout in a primary that was relatively non-competitive produced a 49% turnout for Democrats and...