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New law allows county Board of Elections to expand to six seats

July 19, 2019 1:12 pm

Legislation that will allow counties to expand the Board of Elections from four members to six was signed into law today by Gov. Phil Murphy. The exponential growth of vote-by-mail and provisional ballots has made it increasingly more difficult to...

Beach easily wins re-election as Camden Dem chairman

June 12, 2019 11:01 amJune 12, 2019 4:14 pm

State Sen. James Beach (D-Voorhees) was re-elected Camden County Democratic chairman on Tuesday evening, easily beating back a symbolic challenge from Susan Druckenbrod. Druckenbrod, who won 19% of the vote in her bid for the Democratic mayoral nomination in Cherry...

Beach attacks insurgent candidates

April 19, 2019 11:11 amApril 19, 2019 2:50 pm

Camden County Democratic Chairman James Beach is putting resources behind a fight of activist Democratic candidates challenging county-backed office-seekers. Beach, who is also a state Senator in the sixth legislative district, blasted members of the insurgent slate in a press...

Activist Dems challenge Greenwald, Lampitt

April 1, 2019 4:25 pmApril 1, 2019 7:21 pm

Two activist Democrats are challenging Incumbents in the sixth legislative district, seeking to break the stranglehold power broker George Norcross has on South Jersey’s Democratic politics. Julian Jordan and Danie Moss-Velasco are challenging Assembly Majority Leader Lou Greenwald and Assemblywoman...

Murphy couldn’t move Senate on weed

March 25, 2019 1:36 pmMarch 25, 2019 1:48 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy lost his bid to legalize marijuana today after he was unable to swing more than three votes in the State Senate since coming to an agreement with legislative leaders more than five weeks ago. Senate President Steve...

Murphy won’t say if he’s moved legislators on marijuana

March 21, 2019 3:26 pmMarch 21, 2019 3:38 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy wouldn’t say Thursday whether his lobbying efforts on marijuana legalization had actually flipped any Democratic no votes. “I think we’re moving people, but I don’t know that I — I can’t give you a precise answer, but...

Murphy six votes short on Senate weed vote

March 19, 2019 2:08 pmMarch 19, 2019 9:36 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy declined to say which of ten Democratic state senators the New Jersey Globe has counted as no votes on marijuana legalization he would target Tuesday “I won’t get into specific names. We still have a ways to...