Joseph Maraziti Archives - New Jersey Globe

Dick Zimmer, former congressman and U.S. Senate contender, dies at 81

January 1, 2026 11:23 amJanuary 4, 2026 9:53 pm

Richard A. Zimmer, a three-term Republican congressman from Hunterdon County and longtime state legislator who ran a competitive race for U.S. Senate in 1996 and built a career as an advocate of fiscal conservatism, transparency in government, and the safety...

The time a former congressman became a Hill staffer

December 10, 2024 11:28 amDecember 10, 2024 11:45 am

Here’s an obscure story about a congressman who became a staffer with no connection to New Jersey other than Sue Altman’s appointment as state director to the U.S. Andy Kim triggering the memory. Floyd Fithian served eight years as a...

How Joe Maraziti got to Congress, with some tangents

November 4, 2024 11:23 pm

In the old days, when daily newspapers provided intensive local news coverage, the media could take down a congressman. Back in 1974, three months after the Watergate scandal forced Richard Nixon to resign the presidency, local coverage of another Boonton...

A primer on how six scandal-tarred N.J. congressmen fared on Election Day

March 15, 2024 1:00 amMarch 15, 2024 1:01 am

With talk of Bob Menendez, under indictment on federal corruption charges, seeking re-election to his U.S. Senate seat as an independent, he’s a primer on how six scandal-tarred Members of Congress from New Jersey fared: J. Parnell Thomas (R-Allendale), a...

The story of Joe Maraziti, with some tangents

June 11, 2023 4:16 pm

In the old days, when daily newspapers provided intensive local news coverage, the media could take down a congressman. Back in 1974, three months after the Watergate scandal forced Richard Nixon to resign the presidency, local coverage of another Boonton...

The time N.J. Republicans won the congressional map but lost the election

December 27, 2021 2:07 pm

The clock on congressional redistricting in New Jersey for 1972 began in 1970 when Gov. William Cahill was trying to clear the field for GOP State Chairman Nelson Gross to run for the United States Senate. Republicans thought they could...

April 10, 2021: GOP gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli and The Trentonian reporter Isaac Avilucea

April 10, 2021 5:50 pmApril 15, 2021 7:55 am

Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli and The Trentonian reporter Isaac Avilucea joined host David Wildstein on the New Jersey Globe Power Hour on Talk Radio 77 WABC on Saturday April 10. Ciattarelli, a former Republican assemblyman from Somerset County, is...