Jim Courter Archives - New Jersey Globe

The last NJ First Lady to run for Congress

February 6, 2019 1:07 amFebruary 6, 2019 1:50 am

If Mary Pat Christie runs for Congress, she wouldn’t be the first former First Lady of New Jersey to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1974, Helen Stevenson Meyner defeated freshman Rep. Joseph Maraziti (R-Boonton) in what was...

Van Drew gets Forsythe’s old office

November 30, 2018 10:35 pmNovember 30, 2018 10:48 pm

Rep.-elect Jeff Van Drew (D-Dennis) has been assigned an office that New Jersey’s Edwin B. Forsythe occupied in the 1970’s. Van Drew will be in Room 331 of the Cannon House Office Building. Forsythe, the bow-tie wearing former New Jersey...

The Carpetbagger

October 18, 2018 10:43 pmOctober 19, 2018 8:57 pm

Since Leonard Lance called Tom Malinowski a carpetbagger in last night’s debate – an unfair allegation, since Malinowski grew up in a town next door to the current boundaries of district – here’s a great story about carpetbagging that comes...

New Jerseys 20 Living ex-Congressmen

October 15, 2018 9:15 amOctober 15, 2018 1:40 pm

Rush Holt is 70 today, the 11th oldest of the nineteen living former Congressmen from New Jersey. The oldest is Cornelius Gallagher, who celebrated his 97th birthday last March. The Bayonne Democrat was first elected to Congress in 1958, making...

Hurlock won’t run for Congress

April 2, 2018 11:51 amApril 2, 2018 1:21 pm

Montclair Councilman Bill Hurlock has decided not to seek the Republican nomination for Congress in New Jersey’s 11th district and has not decided if he will endorse one of the other candidates. “Timing – like many things in life as...

The story of Rodney’s long and painful path to Congress

January 4, 2018 12:11 amFebruary 4, 2019 9:15 pm

The most frustrating thing for Rep. Rodney Proctor Frelinghuysen has got to be that he’s reached the pinnacle of his political career, only to face the inconvenience of an election. He’s being tagged as out of touch; that’s something incumbents...