James Dodd Archives - New Jersey Globe

Dover clerk tosses candidate for not using complete legal name

April 11, 2019 10:41 amApril 11, 2019 11:10 am

The Dover municipal clerk has tossed a candidate for alderman from the ballot because he didn’t use his full, legal name, leaving no candidate for the post in the June primary. Tara Pettoni had originally certified the nominating petition of...

Dover mayor didn’t file for Democratic primary

April 1, 2019 4:51 pm

Dover mayor James P. Dodd did not file to seek re-election in the Democratic primary but could still run for as an independent in the general election. Alderwoman Carolyn Blackman is running unopposed in the Democratic primary. Dodd told the...

Blackman seeks to be Dover’s first woman, first black mayor

April 1, 2019 10:31 amApril 1, 2019 10:59 am

DOVER – Alderwoman Carolyn Blackman is running for mayor of Dover on the Morris County Democratic organization line in the June primary. She would become town’s first woman and first black mayor. The incumbent, Democrat James P. Dodd, has not...

Blackman affidavit claims Dodd harassed her

March 29, 2019 3:34 pm

Dover Alderman Carolyn Blackman claimed Dover Mayor James Dodd harassed her on several occasions in late 2018, when Blackman backed a slate of insurgent candidates challenging Alderman aligned with Dodd. In an affidavit filed Friday, Blackman alleged Dodd shouted obscenities...

Dover mayor James Dodd unsure about re-election bid

March 13, 2019 3:49 pm

Dover mayor James P. Dodd says he has not decided whether he will seek re-election. “I haven’t made up my mind yet,” Dodd told the New Jersey Globe. I have a lot of people who have asked me to continue.”...

FBI questions Dover officials about undocumented immigrants voting, sources say

March 13, 2019 3:17 pmMarch 13, 2019 8:30 pm

Federal Bureau of Investigation agents are interviewing Dover Democratic leaders and volunteers today about local politics, including questions about undocumented immigrants voting in the 2018 primary election, two sources confirmed. FBI agents appeared at the homes and workplaces of several...

Dover residents sue Dodd, town over ordinance

January 11, 2019 5:13 pmJanuary 11, 2019 5:27 pm

A group of Dover residents with ties to the Dover First slate sued Dover and the town’s Mayor James Dodd in an effort to overturn a recently-passed ordinance on grounds that it hamstrings the town’s Board of Alderman and usurps...