John Carbone Archives - New Jersey Globe

Rizzo’s public financing bid proved costly, filings show

May 12, 2021 3:08 pm

Republican gubernatorial candidate Phil Rizzo spent heavily on consultants and media buys through May 7, but his unsuccessful bid for public financing carried a costly toll, filings submitted to the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission show. Rizzo reported raising...

Rizzo campaign asks ELEC to give its public fund application another look

April 21, 2021 10:53 amApril 21, 2021 11:31 am

Phil Rizzo’s gubernatorial campaign asked the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission to reconsider its denial of public matching funds at an emergency meeting Thursday in a letter sent Tuesday that blamed the pandemic and a last-minute swell of donation...

Judge grants recounts in Woolwich, Harrison, but no new count for freeholder race

December 11, 2020 12:07 pmDecember 11, 2020 12:08 pm

A Superior Court Judge approved Republican requests for recounts in two Gloucester County municipalities but denied a request for the same in freeholder races there Friday morning. At the end of a hearing that ran for nearly two hours, Cumberland/Gloucester/Salem...

Gloucester judge says county clerk can decide ballot drop box locations if election officials can’t agree

September 25, 2020 10:12 am

The installation of secure ballot drop boxes are back on track after a Superior Court Judge dissolved a previous injunction. Judge Mary Beth Kramer ruled that Gloucester County Clerk James Hogan had the discretion to supplant a deadlocked county Board...

South Jersey wants progressive challengers to pay legal fees

April 23, 2020 9:50 pmApril 24, 2020 12:10 pm

Four county clerks and the Camden County Democratic organization want to recoup legal fees after South Jersey progressives suddenly dropped their lawsuit seeking to reverse the rejection of their nominating petitions. Now some of the candidates who filed to run...

The road to Parsippany Mayor Michael Soriano

April 1, 2019 12:15 amApril 1, 2019 1:14 pm

Decades of infighting among Parsippany Republicans led to Democratic mayors for 33 of the last 53 years in a solidly Republican town that once provided huge pluralities for GOP candidates running statewide and in Morris County. With intra-party quarrels on...

Judge: Morris Clerk can leave Dover ballots as they are

June 1, 2018 7:09 pmJune 2, 2018 11:58 am

A Morris County Judge ruled on Friday that embattled Morris County Clerk Ann Grossi does not have to reprint bilingual ballots for 24 voting machines in Dover. Assignment Judge Stuart Minkowitz declined to grant the injunction sought by Dover Democratic...