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O’Dea has $230k first-quarter haul for Jersey City mayoral bid

April 9, 2024 10:21 am

Hudson County Commissioner Bill O’Dea (D-Jersey City) said today that he raised nearly $230,000 in the 1st quarter of 2024 for his campaign to become Jersey City mayor – an office that won’t come before voters for another year and...

Dems hold county offices in Camden, Essex, Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, Union

November 7, 2023 9:59 pm

Democrats have retained control of countywide offices in Camden, Essex, Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, and Union Counties, all heavily Democratic counties that no one on either side of the aisle believed to be competitive, the New Jersey Globe projects. Among the...

Hudson County’s commissioner map is holding anti-organization Dems back

June 23, 2023 3:20 pmJune 23, 2023 3:59 pm

The Hudson County Democratic organization may be dominant across vast swaths of the county, but there’s one place the organization has struggled to get under its control: Downtown Jersey City. Nearly two decades ago, an upstart candidate named Steve Fulop...

McGreevey confirms to Marcia Kramer he’s considering Jersey City mayoral campaign

June 19, 2023 11:21 am

In an interview yesterday with CBS’s Marcia Kramer, former Gov. Jim McGreevey confirmed that he is in fact interested in running for mayor of Jersey City in 2025, a campaign that neighboring Union City Mayor/State Sen. Brian Stack has been...

McKnight refuses to comment on state of affairs in 31st district

January 20, 2023 11:55 am

The Hudson County-based 31st legislative district is in something of a limbo right now, with State Sen. Sandra Cunningham (D-Jersey City) facing cognitive health issues and Democrats uncertain of who could take her spot. But one of the figures at...

Sampson on Cunningham: ‘Do not count her out’

December 8, 2022 1:03 pm

For the last two months, State Sen. Sandra Cunningham (D-Jersey City) has been hospitalized with cognitive health issues, and it’s not clear when – if ever – she’ll be able to return to the legislature. The unfortunate situation has precipitated...

Altman slams Hudson County for renewing ICE contract

November 25, 2020 2:42 pm

New Jersey Working Families slammed Hudson County’s all-Democratic Freeholder Board for approving a new contract to hold Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees in its county jail for up to 10 more years. “The Hudson County Board of Commissioners represented New...