Jack Kemp Archives - New Jersey Globe

Self-funder considers late-entry for Frelinghuysen seat

March 28, 2018 5:41 pmMarch 29, 2018 2:26 pm

A fundraiser for Chris Christie’s presidential campaign is mulling a last-minute bid for the 11th district congressional seat. Sources say that Mendham businessman Peter DeNeufville, is seeking support for the seat Republican Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen will vacate at the end...

Allocco pledges American Idol technology to decide votes in Congress

March 22, 2018 3:15 pmMarch 23, 2018 11:59 am

A New Jersey congressional candidate promises he’ll vote the way his constituents tell him too – literally — if he gets to succeed Rodney Frelinghuysen in the U.S. House of Representatives. Republican Patrick Allocco, a former concert promoter who was...

Ex-Kean aide seeks Frelinghuysen seat

March 19, 2018 9:11 amMarch 19, 2018 11:22 am

Patrick Allocco, a Morris County concert promoter who was held hostage by the Angolan government for 49 days in 2012, is will seek the Republican nomination for Congress in New Jersey’s 11th district. Allocco, 57, served as a special assistant...

The Life and Times of Jeff Bell

February 12, 2018 2:26 amOctober 10, 2018 2:07 pm

Jeff Bell’s upset victory over four-term U.S. Senator Clifford Case in the 1978 Republican primary was one of the great political campaigns in New Jersey history. Bell was a 35-year-old speechwriter for Ronald Reagan’s 1976 presidential campaign, and Case became...