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Burlington now has two Democratic Senators

January 28, 2019 4:26 pm

State Sen. Dawn Addiego’s announcement that she is switching to the Democratic Party means that Burlington will have only Democratic Senators for the first time since 1963. From 1998 until January 2018, Burlington was represented by Republican Senators – Diane...

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...

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...

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...

Saxton gives to Guadagno, Sweeney and Norcross

April 13, 2018 11:25 amApril 13, 2018 1:15 pm

Former Rep. Jim Saxton, who retired from Congress in 2008, still has $24,214 left in his campaign warchest, The former Republican lawmaker used some of his funds to contribute $4,500 to Kim Guadagno’s campaign for governor. Saxton also gave some...

NJ Open House Seats rarely flip parties

January 14, 2018 5:08 pm

If Jeff Van Drew wins Frank LoBiondo’s seat in Congress, it will be just the sixth time since World War II that an open New Jersey House seat was won by the other party. Two of those were in 1948,...