John Kucek Archives - New Jersey Globe

Parsippany Republicans have been fighting for 58 years

June 24, 2023 2:25 pmJune 25, 2023 3:10 pm

Decades of infighting among Parsippany Republicans led to Democratic mayors for 35 of the last 55 years in a town that once provided huge pluralities for GOP candidates running statewide and in Morris County. But intra-party quarrels and changing demographics...

The time a write-in campaign worked

April 14, 2021 12:01 amApril 13, 2021 10:03 pm

Write-in campaigns are largely uphill, but not impossible under special circumstances. In 1994, Democrats in New Jersey’s 11th district had a critical electoral crisis. Their candidate for Congress against Republican Rep. Dean Gallo (R-Parsippany) was supposed to be Daniel Tauriello,...

Onuoha to seek GOP House nomination as a write-in candidate

April 10, 2020 2:07 pmApril 10, 2020 8:10 pm

Christian Onuoha will seek the Republican nomination for Congress in New Jersey’s 6th district as a write-in candidate after failing to obtain the 200 signatures to get him on the ballot in the July 7 primary election. Onuoha’s lone rival...

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...

Frank Herbert, former State Senator, dies at 87

September 27, 2018 11:49 pmOctober 1, 2018 9:55 am

Frank X. Herbert, a charismatic, progressive Democrat who quoted Shakespeare, loved the New York Giants, and served in the New Jersey State Senate until Gerald Cardinale unseated him in 1981, passed away today. He was 87. Once the chairman of...