Joseph Maraziti Archives - New Jersey Globe

The history of special elections in the 25th district

September 26, 2019 6:55 amSeptember 26, 2019 12:00 pm

The November special election convention to fill the late Senator Anthony R. Bucco’s seat will be the third since the district was created for the 1973 election. That number could reach four, if Anthony M. Bucco gets the chance to...

46 years after Biden, Murphy to headline Morris Dem fundraiser

August 26, 2019 1:39 pmAugust 27, 2019 11:50 am

Gov. Phil Murphy will help Morris County Democrats boost their campaign coffers as the headliner for their fall fundraising gala on October 2. At the top of the Democratic target list for the November mid-term elections are two State Assembly...

Lorraine Harding, aide to Maraziti, Courter, dies at 90

August 1, 2019 10:37 amAugust 1, 2019 3:02 pm

Lorraine Harding, who served on the staffs of two Republican congressmen and became a breeder of Arabian horses, died on July 25. She was 90. Harding became an aide to Rep. Joseph Maraziti (R-Boonton) in 1973 and ran the congressman’s...

The last NJ First Lady to run for Congress

February 6, 2019 1:07 amFebruary 6, 2019 1:50 am

If Mary Pat Christie runs for Congress, she wouldn’t be the first former First Lady of New Jersey to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1974, Helen Stevenson Meyner defeated freshman Rep. Joseph Maraziti (R-Boonton) in what was...

The curse of the Longworth Building

December 1, 2018 5:24 pmDecember 1, 2018 11:18 pm

Good news for Tom Malinowski and Jeff Van Drew: New Jersey congressmen who spend their first two years in the Cannon House Office Building are statistically more likely to get re-elected than freshmen who draw an office in Longworth. Fourteen...

38 years after losing to Fenwick, Democrat is still running

October 28, 2018 1:36 pmOctober 29, 2018 8:56 pm

In 1980, a 25-year-old Democrat running for Congress against Millicent Fenwick said that he was better positioned to help attract federal funding to solve flooding issues in the Green Brook basin because a Democrat, Jimmy Carter, occupied the oval office....

The Carpetbagger

October 18, 2018 10:43 pmOctober 19, 2018 8:57 pm

Since Leonard Lance called Tom Malinowski a carpetbagger in last night’s debate – an unfair allegation, since Malinowski grew up in a town next door to the current boundaries of district – here’s a great story about carpetbagging that comes...