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Labor group honors Peg Schaffer

April 28, 2019 8:22 pm

Democratic state vice chair Peg Schaffer received the Hubert H. Humphrey Friend of Labor award from the Middlesex-Somerset AFL-CIO labor council. Wayne Martiak, the business representative for IBEW 456, said that Schaffer “has for years stood alongside labor, fighting for...

David Rothschild, 94, was Eugene McCarthy delegate in NJ

March 2, 2019 4:48 pm

David Rothschild, a former Millburn Democratic municipal chairman and a delegate to the 1968 Democratic National Convention pledged to Eugene McCarthy, died on March 1. He was 94. McCarthy won nineteen district delegate seats in New Jersey in the June...

LBJ, Nixon, Reagan swept all 21 New Jersey counties

February 18, 2019 5:50 amFebruary 18, 2019 5:47 am

Just 22,091 votes separated John F. Kennedy from Richard M. Nixon in the contest for New Jersey’s sixteen electoral votes in the 1960 presidential election. Kennedy won 50% to Nixon’s 49%, but Nixon carried 14 of New Jersey’s 21 counties....

A story about Democratic grass roots activists in New Jersey

December 17, 2018 10:21 amDecember 17, 2018 2:40 pm

The emergence of a serious grass roots, activist movement within the New Jersey Democratic Party has happened before. One certainty is that Donald Trump’s presidency has engaged new people into state and local politics from both people who oppose the...

Bush Texas rival was three-time NJ U.S. Senate candidate

December 1, 2018 3:40 pmDecember 1, 2018 3:41 pm

A New Jersey man was one of George Bush’s first opponents. Robert Morris sough the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate five times, three times in New Jersey and twice in Texas – both times against Bush. In the 1950’s, the...

A great NJ labor union feud and the last Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race

April 22, 2018 2:51 pmApril 23, 2018 11:36 pm

The last New Jersey Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey was Paul Krebs, labor leader and one-term congressman from Livingston. His story involves one of the great New Jersey labor union feuds. The account starts in...

How many County Chairman can Murphy deliver in 2020?

March 26, 2018 12:55 amMarch 26, 2018 10:27 pm

Can Phil Murphy do what other New Jersey governors have done: deliver county chairs to his preferred candidate for president in 2020? If Cory Booker decides to seek the Democratic nomination, it’s a moot issue. Booker won’t have to worry...