Jack Gallagher Archives - New Jersey Globe

In Memoriam: ex-Middletown mayor; Ray Bateman’s campaign treasurer

May 17, 2020 6:59 pmDecember 18, 2020 11:52 am

Bob Waller, a former Middletown mayor, died on May 15. He was 88. A U.S. Marine Corps veteran, Waller was elected to the Middletown Township Committee as a Republican in 1981. In January 1984, he secured the votes of two...

Threatening to run if he didn’t get the line almost cost Howard 24 years in Congress

April 12, 2020 3:51 pmJuly 25, 2021 12:51 pm

A political misstep in a closed-door party screening committee might have cost James J. Howard the chance to spends 24 years as a Democratic congressman from a heavily Republican Monmouth-Ocean district. Howard, one of the most politically adept, naturally-gifted politicians...

Andre Gruber, Middlesex GOP chairman in 1970s, dies at 84

February 21, 2020 4:55 amFebruary 23, 2020 12:13 pm

Editor’s note: the White House briefing memos at the end of this obituary are a must-read for political junkies. Andre Gruber, who served as the Middlesex County Republican Chairman from 1974 to 1978, died on February 18. He was 84....

The story of the Terror of Trenton

November 16, 2018 3:51 pmNovember 17, 2018 5:13 am

Rep.-elect Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) was anti-establishment right out of the box, including a reported fight over climate change with New Jersey’s Frank Pallone, putting the new congresswoman in the national limelight during the House freshman orientation this week in...