Jennifer Beck Archives - New Jersey Globe

Axel Owen will run 16th district Dem campaign

April 12, 2019 12:02 pmApril 12, 2019 3:40 pm

One of the state’s top Democratic operatives is leaving the state party to help re-elect two Democratic incumbents in a politically competitive legislative district. Axel Owen, the political director of the Democratic State Committee, will manage the re-election campaigns of...

Group seeks end to trade, travel restrictions with Cuba

March 26, 2019 8:00 amMarch 26, 2019 7:05 am

A group of New Jersey political and business leaders will push for statewide support to lift trade and travel restrictions on Cuba. New Jersey will become the 19th state to join Engage Cuba, a Washington-based lobbying group that advocates pro-engagement policies on...

Mike Amoroso, Matt Woolley unopposed for GOP Assembly nod in 11th

March 4, 2019 8:56 pmMarch 4, 2019 9:02 pm

Freehold Township Board of Education president Michael Amoroso and former Hugin for Senate staffer Matthew Woolley will run unopposed at Saturday’s Monmouth County Republican nominating convention for the chance to challenge two-term incumbents Joann Downey (D-Freehold) and Eric Houghtaling (D-Neptune)...

Opponents emerge for Downey, Houghtaling

February 19, 2019 3:25 pmFebruary 19, 2019 3:55 pm

Freehold Township Board of Education president Michael Amoroso and former Hugin for Senate staffer Matthew Woolley are emerging as the leading Republican candidates to take on two-term incumbents Joann Downey (D-Freehold) and Eric Houghtaling (D-Neptune) for State Assembly in the...

New Booker Iowa staffer helped Gopal upset Beck

February 4, 2019 12:23 pm

Cory Booker’s new Iowa director of operations and special projects honed her grass-roots political skills in New Jersey, where she helped flip the 11th district State Senate seat from red to blue in 2017. Haley Hager ran the field operation...

Madame Battleship

July 27, 2018 9:46 pmJuly 31, 2018 10:24 am

In the late 1990s, a freshman Camden County freeholder took on a commission led by the late Assemblyman Joe Azzolina and backed by the state’s northern political force to bring a ship, and a rare win, to South Jersey. When...

Battleground 2019

July 9, 2018 12:31 amJuly 9, 2018 4:08 pm

The likely best-case scenario for Republicans in 2019 is a pickup of ten Assembly seats, which would bring them to respectable and relevant 36 seats hearing into the second half of Gov. Phil Murphy’s term – and into legislative redistricting. ...