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New Jersey governors and presidential primaries

February 15, 2021 12:13 amFebruary 14, 2021 7:02 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy was the first governor to stay out of the presidential race in 28 years, leaving Democratic county chairs — and in some cases, Democratic County Committee members — to award the organization line in the 2020 New...

New Jersey tends to elect a new governor in the year a new president takes office

December 9, 2020 1:04 pmDecember 9, 2020 7:25 pm

Newly elected presidents are almost always followed by new governors of New Jersey. Since 1953, ten new presidents saw New Jersey elect a new governor in their inauguration year, and the president saw a governor of the opposite political party...

State Housing Agency Executive Director Chuck Richman headed to retirement

December 8, 2020 4:37 pmDecember 9, 2020 8:54 am

Chuck Richman is leaving his position as executive director of the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency after almost 50 years in state government to head into retirement, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Tuesday. “Chuck Richman has been a lifelong...

Kornacki: No other state has New Jersey’s politics

December 1, 2020 8:31 pm

Take it from Steve Kornacki: New Jersey’s politics are unique. In a virtual conversation with Rowan University’s Ben Dworkin, the NBC and MSNBC national political correspondent said the Garden State’s political landscape dwarfed even those of similarly old states. “I...

Veterans: 17 New Jersey governors

November 11, 2020 12:04 amNovember 11, 2020 8:58 am

Seventeen of New Jersey’s 56 governors have served in the U.S. military. The last was Jon Corzine, who was in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve from 1969 to 1975. The first governor of New Jersey, William Livingston, was a Brigadier...

Here’s how N.J. Senators voted on some of Trump’s Supreme Court short list

September 20, 2020 7:19 pmSeptember 20, 2020 11:52 pm

President Donald Trump says he will nominate a woman to fill the U.S. Supreme Court seat on the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, leaving two conservative circuit court judges as the front-runners for the lifetime appointment. Barbara Lagoa, a former Florida...

Jewish GOP candidate calls Pelosi mailer anti-Semitic ‘dog whistle’

September 16, 2020 12:01 amSeptember 16, 2020 2:23 pm

Direct mail coming from Nancy Pelosi’s House Majority PAC appears to accentuate but not modify the size of a Jewish Republican congressional candidate’s nose and depicts the candidate with loads of hundred dollar bills. One of the three mailers show...