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Saily Avelenda: Don’t politicize #MeToo

January 17, 2020 1:51 pmJanuary 17, 2020 4:31 pm

A progressive leader who ran Democratic State Chairman John Currie’s re-election campaign warned against politicizing the #MeToo movement Friday. “If you weaponize #MeToo through politics, you are serving the patriarchy. You are not serving women. You are not serving victims,”...

Ex-Currie lieutenant joining Bloomberg campaign

January 13, 2020 7:13 pm

A former top aide to Democratic State Chairman John Currie will help set up Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign in New Jersey. Axel Owen, the political director of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee from 2018 to 2019, will be the...

Norcross dropped DiVincenzo Super Bowl party five months ago, memo shows

January 13, 2020 1:53 pmJanuary 13, 2020 3:10 pm

An InsiderNJ report that Democratic leader George Norcross pulled his participation in Joseph DiVincenzo’s annual Super Bowl party in Puerto Rico over Essex County Executive’s endorsement of Gov. Phil Murphy’s re-election and the fight over the state party chairmanship is...

Currie re-elected Dem state chairman

January 11, 2020 12:16 pmJanuary 13, 2020 10:37 am

Democratic State Chairman John Currie was reappointed without much drama Saturday morning, officially bringing an end to an internal feud that consumed the party for much of the last year. Essex County Democratic Chairman LeRoy Jones began publicly mulling a...

Currie requiring Dem state committee members to show photo ID

January 8, 2020 12:17 pm

John Currie is unopposed for re-election on Saturday, but Democratic State Committee members will still need to show photo identification in order to cast their vote. The new policy appears to contradict national Democratic Party opposition to photo ID laws...

NJ DSC releases delegate paperwork

January 8, 2020 10:26 am

The New Jersey Democratic State Committee released paperwork for the registration of pledges presidential delegates Tuesday. “The 2020 Presidential Election will be the most consequential of our lifetime and the New Jersey Democtatic State Committee is committed to running an...

Passaic surrogate says she’s innocent, plans to complete term

January 4, 2020 1:33 pmJanuary 8, 2020 9:02 am

Embattled Passaic County Surrogate Bernice Toledo would not say if she will seek re-election to a second term in 2021. The state Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct has alleged that Toledo abused her office by naming a longtime...