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Pat LaRocca, Essex GOP stalwart, dies at 89

July 10, 2024 9:14 pm

Patricia M. LaRocca, a fixture in Essex County Republican politics for decades and a former Livingston Republican municipal chair, died on July 6. She was 89. She was an early supporter of Ronald Reagan and backed his bid for the...

Bob Davis, longtime GOP leader and NJ-11 congressional candidate, dies at 85

August 14, 2020 10:22 amAugust 15, 2020 6:01 pm

Robert A. Davis, the Republican candidate for Congress in New Jersey’s 11th district, died on August 10. He was 85. A longtime conservative activist, Davis among the early organizers of Ronald Reagan’s 1976 presidential campaign in New Jersey against the...

The long road to a vote on Essex charter change

July 22, 2019 3:40 amJuly 24, 2019 8:50 pm

The debate over changing Essex County’s form of government runs began in 1972, when Assembly Speaker Thomas Kean (R-Livingston) called for the election of a charter study commission. During Kean’s first year as Speaker, the Legislature passed the Optional County...