Joey Novick Archives - New Jersey Globe

Varela picks up more endorsements from Hunterdon Dems

October 23, 2025 1:14 pmOctober 23, 2025 1:16 pm

Brian Varela continues to rack up local endorsements in his campaign for New Jersey’s 7th congressional district, earning the support of ten more local Democrats in Hunterdon County today. Among Varela’s new supporters are Joey Novick, who led the Hunterdon...

Former Hunterdon Dem chair endorses Baraka days before convention

February 4, 2025 11:39 am

Former Hunterdon County Chair Joey Novick endorsed Newark Mayor Ras Baraka for governor Tuesday, just days before Hunterdon’s Democratic convention. Novick led the Hunterdon County Democrats from 1996 to 2000 and has a history of supporting progressive candidates—he vouched for...

Doherty says systemic racism doesn’t exist, calls Black Lives Matter “Marxist organization” in 9/11 speech

September 11, 2020 7:28 pmSeptember 13, 2020 1:29 pm

In a speech that began with a memorial to emergency responders who died on and after 9/11, State Sen. Michael Doherty (R-Oxford) claimed systemic racism did not exist and charged the Black Lives Matter movement was a Marxist organization. “These...

Frank Fuzo, five-term Hunterdon freeholder, dies at 68

June 9, 2020 11:04 pm

Frank J. Fuzo, a strong vote-getter during his fifteen years as a Hunterdon County freeholder and the last Republican mayor of Lambertville, died on June 3. He was 68. Fuzo made his first bid for public office in 1984 as...

Delgado-Polanco running for delegate on Sanders ticket

March 31, 2020 1:22 am

A controversial former Murphy administration official is mounting a political comeback as a candidate for delegate to the Democratic National Convention pledged to Bernie Sanders. Lizette Delgado-Polanco, forced to resign last year her state job and party post in a...

Novick seeks support for Sanders in Hunterdon

February 6, 2020 4:06 pmFebruary 6, 2020 7:25 pm

Former Hunterdon County Democratic Chairman Joey Novick is whipping votes for Bernie Sanders at the first-in-the-state convention to award an organization line for the June 5 New Jersey primary. Novick served two terms as county chairman and spent fifteen years...

Novick opens new comedy show in New York

March 4, 2018 9:43 pmMarch 6, 2018 2:47 pm

Former Hunterdon County Democratic Chairman Joey Novick will appear in a solo show called “Jewish…ish An Oy Story” next weekend in New York. The show, written and performed by Novick, is about growing up Jewish in Brooklyn in the 1960’s...