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Trailblazer: Bill Stubbs

January 21, 2019 12:01 amJanuary 20, 2019 7:25 pm

Bill Stubbs (1917-2003) was the first African American to win a major party nomination for Congress in New Jersey. He won a three-way Republican primary in New Jersey’s 11th district in 1964 but lost the general election to freshman Rep....

A Tom Kean ‘what-if’

December 9, 2018 6:28 pmDecember 9, 2018 6:37 pm

This is one of those alternate universe stories about what might have been, had the things went a little differently in Trenton. In a redistricting deal made by the leaders of the New Jersey Legislature in 1966, one of three...

Final: Sherrill plurality was 47,362 votes

December 5, 2018 11:57 am

The last time New Jersey’s 11th district flipped parties was in 1984, when Assembly Minority Leader Dean Gallo (R-Parsippany) unseated eleven-term Democratic Rep. Joseph Minish (D-West Orange) by 27,624, 56%-44%. 34 years later, Democrat Mikie Sherrill flipped it back by...

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...

Bucco path to Senate is complicated

November 26, 2018 12:02 amNovember 26, 2018 8:20 am

Assemblyman Anthony M. Bucco is the Prince Charles of New Jersey politics, waiting on the sidelines for his father, Anthony R. Bucco, to abdicate his seat in the New Jersey State Senate. Now Rep.-elect Tom Malinowski might be in his way. Malinowski, a former Assistant...

Is Bucco the Prince Charles of New Jersey politics?

August 29, 2018 8:38 pmSeptember 1, 2018 5:44 pm

Assemblyman Anthony M. Bucco is the Prince Charles of New Jersey politics, waiting on the sidelines for his father, Anthony R. Bucco, to abdicate his seat in the New Jersey State Senate. Now Tom Malinowski might get in the way....

Some history on the 11th

August 17, 2018 1:57 pmAugust 17, 2018 5:12 pm

Tracking the lineage of New Jersey’s 11th district House seat, up for grabs this fall now that Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-Harding) is retiring after 24 years, is complicated. The current district has been Republican since 1984, when a panel of...