John Wisniewski Archives - New Jersey Globe

Sherrill stumps in New Hampshire, Massachusetts for three Democratic veterans

August 19, 2026 11:50 amAugust 19, 2026 1:58 pm

A trip to New Hampshire by a determined out-of-state politician is rarely viewed as just a trip to New Hampshire, particularly when the visitor is a newly elected governor already generating speculation about her national future. Gov. Mikie Sherrill will...

Wisniewski rejoins government as Turnpike Authority Commissioner

February 21, 2024 12:37 pmFebruary 21, 2024 5:34 pm

Seventeen years after he opposed Gov. Jon Corzine’s bid to sell the New Jersey Turnpike, former Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D-Sayreville) will continue to safeguard one of the state’s major highways as a new commissioner of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority....

Vitale, Coughlin, Lopez win in the 19th district

November 2, 2021 8:01 pmDecember 17, 2021 3:54 pm

The New Jersey Globe is projecting that State Sen. Joseph Vitale (D-Woodbridge), Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin (D-South Amboy), and Assemblywoman Yvonne Lopez (D-Perth Amboy) have won re-election to the 19th legislative district. The Republican nominees for the seats were Peter...

The O’Toole Chronicles: My Experiences from Legislative Redistricting

October 13, 2020 12:01 amOctober 12, 2020 9:16 pm

As I filled out my vote-by-mail ballot this year and got to Ballot Question #3, it brought back a flood of memories related to Legislative Redistricting – both as a member of the Legislature deeply affected in 2001 and as...

Biden picks his New Jersey delegates

March 20, 2020 3:37 amMarch 26, 2020 4:55 pm

Joe Biden is close to finalizing his slate of delegates to the Democratic National Convention for the June 2 New Jersey primary, according to a list obtained by the New Jersey Globe. Former Gov. Richard J. Codey will run for...

Princeton Democrats vote for Warren, followed by Klobuchar, Bloomberg

February 17, 2020 7:59 pm

Elizabeth Warren won a Princeton Community Democratic Organization (PCDO) straw poll on Sunday evening, beating out Amy Klobuchar and Michael Bloomberg in a vote that utilizing ranked choices to pick a winner. Democrats in one of New Jersey’s marquis progressive...

Arline Friscia, former Middlesex assemblywoman, dies at 84

October 18, 2019 11:52 amOctober 19, 2019 11:31 am

Arline M. Friscia, who served eight years as a New Jersey assemblywoman where she sponsored a law top expand the state’s family leave law, died on Wednesday. She was 84. In 1995, Friscia unseated Republican incumbents who had captured Middlesex...