Joseph Maraziti Archives - New Jersey Globe

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...

Men win 98% of NJ House races

August 26, 2018 10:03 am

New Jersey has elected 304 men and six women to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. So you don’t have to reach for a calculator, that’s 98% men, 2% women. If you start the clock in 1922 — the...

Bill Schluter, former Senator, dies at 90

August 6, 2018 9:38 pmAugust 7, 2018 9:57 am

William E. Schluter, a moderate Republican and self-proclaimed maverick who championed ethics reform during 21 years in the New Jersey Legislature, and an independent candidate for governor, died today. He was 90. Schluter served two separate tenures in the Legislature...

Rosemarie Totaro, Democratic Assemblywoman from Morris, dies

March 11, 2018 1:17 pmMarch 12, 2018 12:49 am

Rosemarie Totaro, a fiery moderate Democrat and self-described feminist who won two elections for the New Jersey State Assembly in a solidly Republican Morris County district, died on March 7. She was 84. Totaro caused a stir in 1978 when...