Joseph Egan Archives

34 candidates, including incumbents, failed to file financial disclosures with ELEC

June 15, 2021 10:26 amJune 20, 2021 10:15 pm

State Sen. Declan O’Scanlon told the New Jersey Globe he filed his disclosure after this story was published. The missed deadline, he said, was the result of confusion related to similar but separate disclosures sitting legislators file with the Office...

Blanquita Valenti, trailblazing Middlesex freeholder, dies at 87

March 10, 2021 7:12 amMarch 10, 2021 11:01 pm

Blanquita Bird Valenti, a popular vote-getter who spent 15 years as a Middlesex County freeholder and 20 years as a New Brunswick city councilwoman, died on Tuesday evening. She was 87. Valenti became the first Latina to win a countywide...

Murphy to name Egan, Zubair to Rutgers Board of Governors, replacing two incumbents

December 10, 2020 10:00 amDecember 11, 2020 10:28 am

Gov. Phil Murphy is replacing the only Latino member of the Rutgers University Board of Governors, as well as a key ally to Democratic powerbroker George Norcross, the New Jersey Globe has learned. Murphy will name Kevin Egan, a New...

The year the Assembly had three party switchers

October 19, 2019 4:32 pmOctober 19, 2019 4:35 pm

After Assemblywoman Arline Friscia decided to switch parties and seek re-election as a Republican in August 2003, then-Assembly Speaker Albio Sires removed her as Assembly Labor Committee Chair and replaced her with Joseph Egan, a freshman Democrat from New Brunswick....

Quinn attacks Somerset GOP following primary loss

September 6, 2019 10:03 amSeptember 6, 2019 10:48 am

Robert Quinn turned on his own party following an off-the-line primary loss against Somerset County Freeholder Pat Walsh. “There is an element of this party that does not want minorities and the evidence is the lack of elected officials and...

Incumbents in LD22, 17 alone in filing ELEC reports

May 31, 2019 12:30 pmMay 31, 2019 6:32 pm

Incumbents in the 22nd and 17th districts are the only ones there to have filed their 11-day pre-primary reports with the Election Law Enforcement Commission. Assemblyman Joseph Egan reported raising $395,305.53 over the duration of the race and finished the...

Assembly challenger backs Murphy EDA task force

May 9, 2019 9:36 amMay 9, 2019 11:33 am

A progressive challenging two incumbents in the Democratic primary for State Assembly says he supports the work of Gov. Phil Murphy’s task force investigating tax credits offered by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. “In an act that can only...