Joseph Mocco Archives - New Jersey Globe

How Sacco got to the N.J. Senate

February 24, 2022 9:02 am

When Nicholas Sacco decided he wanted the 32nd district Senate seat nearly 30 years ago, two years after he became Mayor of North Bergen, he just took it. The incumbent in 1993 was Thomas Cowan of the Operating Engineers union,...

Sacco and Murphy are back together as North Bergen fundraiser draws 2,000 people

October 8, 2021 1:09 amOctober 8, 2021 1:30 pm

Over 2,000 people showed up at Nicholas Sacco’s fundraiser on Thursday evening, numbers that were not at all unusual for the longtime state senator and North Bergen mayor. But the impactful news of the night was the attendance of Gov....

Joseph Ryglicki, former Hudson Surrogate and political veteran, dies at 73

March 27, 2021 8:37 pmMarch 29, 2021 1:06 am

Joseph Ryglicki, a former Hudson County Surrogate and a veteran of some of North Bergen’s greatest political wars, died on March 26 after a long battle with cancer. He was 73. Ryglicki’s tenure in politics goes back to the 1970s...

How Bob Menendez became a mayor

January 3, 2020 9:30 am

It’s a story that happens often in New Jersey politics, where cliques and factions sometimes create toxic environments within one party in control of local government. That was in the case in Galloway on Thursday night, where a Republican township...

Mocco is a presence at Wainstein headquarters

February 7, 2019 11:55 amFebruary 7, 2019 4:15 pm

There’s an older man who shows up at Larry Wainstein’s North Bergen headquarters a few times a week. He says his name is Frank. He doesn’t use his last name. Frank seems to know a lot about local politics, and...

The Republican screw up that made Menendez Mayor

March 13, 2018 2:02 amMarch 14, 2018 2:16 am

The success of Bob Menendez’s political career might be because of bad staff work. The story starts in 1976, when Hudson County gave Jimmy Carter a paltry 23,605 vote margin against Gerald Ford. Assembly Speaker Joseph LeFante (D-Bayonne), largely blamed...

How Sacco got to the Senate

March 12, 2018 5:16 amFebruary 23, 2022 11:21 pm

When Nicholas Sacco decided he wanted the 32nd district Senate seat in 1993, two years after he became Mayor of North Bergen, he just took it. That’s the kind of clout a North Bergen mayor has in that legislative district....