John Lynch Archives - New Jersey Globe

The switch

August 13, 2019 1:47 amAugust 13, 2019 1:44 am

Bob Torricelli, seeking re-election to a second term in the United States Senate in 2002, was severely admonished by the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics on July 31 for accepting expensive gifts from one of his campaign contributors, David...

McCabe wins big in re-election bid

June 13, 2019 9:52 pmJune 14, 2019 12:11 am

Middlesex County Democratic Chairman Kevin McCabe was easily re-elected tonight, defeating Herb Tarbous in his bid to keep the post he’s held since 2013 as head of one of the state’s most powerful county organizations. Vice chair Beatrice Moskowitz was...

The time an assemblyman won off the line

June 1, 2019 9:12 pm

It’s not uncommon for legislators to be dumped from the organization line and those who fight back hardly ever win. One of the most memorable examples of an assemblyman winning without party support was in 1979, when the Middlesex Democratic...

17th is one of eight NJ legislative districts where Dems are undefeated

March 11, 2019 12:02 amMarch 10, 2019 10:52 pm

New Jersey’s 17th legislative district has been occupied by just Democrats since the state first adopted a 40-district map in 1973. It’s one of eight districts that Republicans have never won. The New Brunswick-based district has 61,309 Democrats, 15,526 Republicans...

Former mayor, son of former mayor, die

February 17, 2019 10:51 am

Thomas Whelan, a former mayor of Manalapan, died on January 24. He would have turned 83 this week. He was elected to the township committee in 1966 and re-elected in 1970. When Whelan became mayor in 1969, New Jersey has...

Booker picks for NJ Dems official for NH campaign role

February 4, 2019 9:16 amFebruary 4, 2019 9:21 am

Cory Booker has named several veteran New Hampshire Democratic operatives – including former New Jersey Democratic operative Sean Downey — to run his campaign in the first-in-the-nation presidential primary. Downey served as executive director of the New Jersey Democratic State...

The history of the New Jersey Senate Presidency

August 6, 2018 4:15 amAugust 5, 2018 11:40 pm

When New Jersey’s modern-day founding fathers created the most powerful governorship in the nation in 1947, it was based on an assumption that the old system of rotating legislative leaders would still be in effect. Today, the three separate but...