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Jean Kennedy Smith, JFK sister, dies at 92

June 18, 2020 9:42 am

Jean Kennedy Smith, a former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland and the last surviving sibling of President John F. Kennedy, died on Wednesday. She was 92. Smith was the aunt of former Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-Rhode Island), now a resident...

Martin Luther King III featured in Kennedy radio ad

June 7, 2020 3:06 pmJune 7, 2020 10:31 pm

Martin Luther King III, the son of the slain civil rights leader, is featured on a new radio ad endorsing Amy Kennedy for the Democratic nomination for Congress in New Jersey’s 2nd district. The ad criticizes “the deadly pattern of...

Joe Kennedy will boost cousin’s House bid

May 19, 2020 11:44 am

Amy Kennedy will get some help from her famous political family tonight when Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III (D-Massachusetts) appears on her Facebook Live series tonight to talk about COVID-19 and mental health issues. Kennedy’s has developed her “Connecting South...

Trump names GOP donor as postmaster general. Could that mean the return of local postmasters as congressional picks?

May 8, 2020 1:50 pmMay 21, 2020 1:58 pm

President Donald Trump named a top Republican contributor as the new Postmaster General, returning the post to a political appointee for the first time in 48 years. Post offices were once the ultimate patronage pits for political organizations, some of...

Kennedy name helps raise out-of-state money in NJ-2 congressional race

April 17, 2020 5:56 pmApril 18, 2020 3:12 pm

Amy Kennedy is leaning on the dynastic power of one of America’s most famous political families as she seeks the Democratic nomination for Congress in New Jersey’s 2nd district. Her husband, former Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-Rhode Island), is the...

New Jersey’s longest-living congressional candidate

April 13, 2020 1:15 pmApril 13, 2020 10:11 pm

The coronavirus-related death last week of Martin S. Fox, a 95-year-old Millburn Democrat who ran for Congress against Rep. Robert W. Kean (R-Livingston) in 1952 and 1954, leaves an 85-year-old Millville man as the longest-living New Jersey congressional candidate. Paul...

Threatening to run if he didn’t get the line almost cost Howard 24 years in Congress

April 12, 2020 3:51 pmApril 13, 2020 3:47 pm

A political misstep in a closed-door party screening committee might have cost James J. Howard the chance to spends 24 years as a Democratic congressman from a heavily Republican Monmouth-Ocean district. Howard, one of the most politically adept, naturally-gifted politicians...