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Andy Kim endorsed by Laborers Union, which backed his opponent in 2018

July 16, 2020 5:00 amJuly 16, 2020 1:45 pm

The New Jersey Laborers Union (LiUNA) has endorsed freshman Rep. Andy Kim (D-Moorestown) for re-election, flipping one of the state’s most politically influential building trades unions to his side just two years they backed his opponent. The Laborers backed the...

New Jersey hedge fund buying major daily newspaper chain

July 13, 2020 10:27 am

A New Jersey-based hedge fund is expected to become the new owners of McClatchy, which operates 30 major daily newspapers in fourteen states, including the Miami Herald, the Kansas City Star, and the Charlotte Observer. Chatham Asset Management controls American...

Dems make registration gains in key N.J. congressional districts

July 2, 2020 11:05 amJuly 2, 2020 5:36 pm

Democrats have gained voters in New Jersey’s most competitive congressional districts. The 3rd, where Rep. Andy Kim (D-Moorestown) is seeking re-election in a district that hasn’t re-elected a Democratic congressman since the 1852, there are now 14,910 more Democrats than...

Andy Kim raises whopping $1 million in Q2, has $3.5 million warchest

June 30, 2020 9:44 pm

Rep. Andy Kim (D-Moorestown) has expanded his warchest to over $3.5 million in his bid for re-election to a 2nd term in Congress after raising over $1 million during the second quarter of 2020. Without taking any corporate PAC money,...

Andy Kim has $3.2 million in warchest

June 22, 2020 10:53 pm

Rep. Andy Kim (D-Moorestown) raised $718,433 between April 1 and June 17 and has $3,249,780 cash-on-hand in his bid to win re-election to a second term in New Jerseys 3rd district. Kim has now raised $4,213,884 since entering Congress in...

Mailer rips Richter’s record at construction firm, ties him to Gaddafi ‘blood money’

May 20, 2020 10:19 amMay 20, 2020 2:27 pm

A hard-hitting direct mail piece savaging GOP congressional candidate David Richter’s business ventures in China, Syria and Libya and his hiring of Joe Biden’s brother, will hit the mailboxes of Republican primary voters in the next day or two. The...

78% of successful House challengers were political unknowns

May 11, 2020 3:16 pmMay 14, 2020 10:25 am

In a race for Congress, New Jerseyans are historically more likely to vote for someone they had never really heard of against an incumbent Member of Congress than they are to go with someone who has been winning elections for...