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Elba Perez-Cinciarelli, former assemblywoman, dies at 76

July 4, 2020 12:32 am

Former Assemblywoman Elba Perez-Cinciarelli (D-Jersey City), the first Latina to represent Hudson County in the New Jersey Legislature and an early supporter of same-sex marriage, died on Friday. She was 76. Hudson County Democrats picked Perez-Cinciarelli, a Jersey City Education...

Michelle Sobolewski, veteran legislative staffer, dies

April 8, 2018 10:30 pmApril 8, 2018 11:32 pm

Michelle Sobolewski, a veteran of New Jersey politics since the 1970’s years, passed away on April 4 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 62. Friends say she was a fighter until the end. Sobolewski started her career working...

Once allies, Stack and Sires at opposite sides of warette

March 31, 2018 10:40 pmApril 2, 2018 8:56 am

When Brian Stack was a 25-year-old political operative in 1991, he managed Albio Sires’ campaign for Mayor of West New York against five-term incumbent Anthony DeFino. Sires was a political outsider in those days – he lost races for Congress...

Fulop may want to run for Congress in 2018

March 16, 2018 4:13 pmMarch 18, 2018 2:57 pm

Steven Fulop spent his first three years as Mayor of Jersey City essentially running for Governor. When he suddenly dropped out of the race, he shifted back to his local politics lane and won a re-election. But governing New Jersey’s...

The Republican screw up that made Menendez Mayor

March 13, 2018 2:02 amMarch 14, 2018 2:16 am

The success of Bob Menendez’s political career might be because of bad staff work. The story starts in 1976, when Hudson County gave Jimmy Carter a paltry 23,605 vote margin against Gerald Ford. Assembly Speaker Joseph LeFante (D-Bayonne), largely blamed...

The legend of Patrick Pasculli

January 13, 2018 3:47 pmMarch 5, 2018 1:47 am

The photo Ravi Bhalla tweeted today of four Hoboken mayors having lunch at Del Frisco’s Grille reminded me of a classic freshman legislator story. Since this was swearing in week in Trenton, it’s an appropriate time to retell it. This...