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Linden considering Jim Devine for local PR contract

June 18, 2019 6:00 pm

The Linden City Council will vote tonight on Mayor Derek Armstead’s proposal to award a public relations contract to a company run by controversial political consultant Jim Devine and his life partner, perennial candidate Lisa McCormick, according to the council...

Is Samuel L. Jackson coming to Linden? Scutari is skeptical

June 4, 2019 5:54 pm

State Sen. Nicholas Scutari says that the Attorney General’s office will investigate an e-mail invitation claiming that actor Samuel L. Jackson will be in Linden tonight as part of an election night celebration for Mayor Derek Armstead. “An email went...

300 county committee seats contested in Union Dem fight

April 2, 2019 12:28 amApril 3, 2019 12:04 pm

About 300 county committee seats are being contested in Union County, where State Sen. Nicholas Scutari (D-Linden) is seeking re-election to a second term as Democratic county chairman in June. Linden, Union, Plainfield, Roselle, Rahway, Clark, Cranford and Fanwood face...

McCormick makes offer to off-the-line Dems

April 11, 2018 9:32 amApril 11, 2018 2:04 pm

Lisa McCormick has something valuable to offer, and she’s willing to share. McCormick is guaranteed one of the first two lines or columns in the June Democratic primary. That’s a preferential ballot position that comes with being one of the...

McCormick, Truong enter race for U.S. Senate

April 2, 2018 10:37 pmApril 2, 2018 10:57 pm

Bob Menendez’s lone primary opponent is Lisa McCormick, a Rahway newspaper publisher and life partner of controversial Democratic strategist Jim Devine. Mitchell Horn, who challenged Menendez at several Democratic county conventions without success, did not file. McCormick has lost races...