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Pinkin departure sets up opening for Assembly Environment chair

February 10, 2020 3:37 pm

The chair of the Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee will probably be up for grabs next January. The current chair, Assemblywoman Nancy Pinkin (D-East Brunswick), is the overwhelming favorite to become the next Middlesex County Clerk. Democrats have not...

Kennedy, Carter win in 22nd

November 5, 2019 8:01 pmNovember 5, 2019 7:47 pm

The New Jersey Globe is projecting that Democratic incumbents James Kennedy and Linda Carter have been re-elected to the New Jersey State Assembly in the 22nd district. They defeated the lone Republican candidate, former Garwood Mayor Patricia Quattrocchi. Kennedy, a...

Quattrocchi predicts Democrats will make Rain Tax permanent

September 26, 2019 2:25 pm

Republican Assembly candidate Patricia Quattrocchi has pledged not to vote for any bills that would raise taxes if she unseats incumbents James Kennedy (D-Rahway) and Linda Carter (D-Plainfield) in the heavily-Democratic 22nd district. Quattrocchi, a former Mayor of Garwood, is...

Kennedy, Carter win in 22nd district

June 4, 2019 8:15 pmJune 3, 2019 11:28 pm

The New Jersey Globe is calling the Democratic primary for State Assembly in the 22nd district for incumbents James Kennedy (D-Rahway) and Linda Carter (D-Plainfield). They have defeated their primary opponents, Carlos Rivas and Mark Lighten. Rivas and Lighten are...

Incumbents in LD22, 17 alone in filing ELEC reports

May 31, 2019 12:30 pmMay 31, 2019 6:32 pm

Incumbents in the 22nd and 17th districts are the only ones there to have filed their 11-day pre-primary reports with the Election Law Enforcement Commission. Assemblyman Joseph Egan reported raising $395,305.53 over the duration of the race and finished the...

Scutari blasts Devine for anti-Semitic e-mail

May 29, 2019 5:10 pmMay 29, 2019 5:51 pm

Political consultant Jim Devine is facing fire over an e-mail headed with an ethnic slur. Devine sent an email with the subject “Do Column A pay kikes make Daniel angry?” to former Union County Freeholder Daniel Sullivan in an attempt...

Write-in campaigns unlikely in three legislative districts

May 28, 2019 9:26 amMay 28, 2019 9:30 am

Republicans will get a second shot at running a full slate of State Assembly candidates in three legislative districts next Tuesday, if they can get 100 write-in votes in the primary election. Officially, the GOP is not mounting any organized...