Joanne Schwartz Archives - New Jersey Globe

Team Carty again cuts corners in Mount Holly fire race

August 28, 2026 3:19 pmAugust 28, 2026 10:51 pm

Tom Rossell ignored a judicial consent order requiring him to certify his campaign email address to the Burlington County Clerk’s office by 4 PM Wednesday, potentially placing his candidacy for Mount Holly fire commissioner back in jeopardy. Rossell, who is...

Ballot lawsuit asks if missing email should sink fire commissioner candidate

August 14, 2026 2:52 pm

A Burlington County judge will likely decide next week what may be the ultimate election-law technicality: whether a candidate should be tossed from the ballot because he failed to provide an email address on his nominating petition. The law says...

Burlington GOP Surrogate candidate doesn’t make the ballot

March 31, 2026 8:58 pm

The Republican candidate for Burlington County Surrogate has been tossed from the ballot after County Clerk Joanne Schwartz, a Democrat, found that Michael Boyd fell 27 signatures short of the 269 required on his nominating petitions. Schwartz found that of...

Kate Gibbs picked for N.J. GOP post

July 9, 2025 7:46 pmJuly 10, 2025 2:13 am

Kate Gibbs, a former Burlington County Commissioner and a top official of the Operating Engineers Local 825 union, has been named executive director of the Republican State Committee, taking the top state party staff post in a hotly contested gubernatorial...

Ciattarelli will tap Paulsen as GOP state chairman

June 1, 2025 1:46 pmJune 1, 2025 7:09 pm

Jack Ciattarelli has picked former Burlington County Republican Chairman Glenn Paulsen, a member of his inner circle for nearly a decade, to serve as State GOP Chairman if he wins the Republican primary, the New Jersey Globe has confirmed. Paulsen...

Herb Conaway won nearly every town in his landslide NJ-3 victory

June 11, 2024 11:50 amJune 20, 2024 10:41 am

After last Tuesday’s primary, the general election for Rep. Andy Kim (D-Moorestown)’s House seat is set: Assemblyman Herb Conaway (D-Delran) on the Democratic side, physician Rajesh Mohan for the Republicans. Each man had to get through a competitive primary to...

Mohan gets GOP nomination to flip Kim’s House seat

June 4, 2024 10:41 pmJune 5, 2024 1:02 am

Republicans in the 3rd congressional district have nominated Holmdel physician Rajesh Mohan, the New Jersey Globe projects, in their effort to flip the seat Rep. Andy Kim (D-Moorestown) is leaving behind to run for Senate. As of 1:02 a.m., Mohan...