Kennith Gonzalez Archives - New Jersey Globe

GOP ends challenge against anti-abortion independent in NJ-9

June 10, 2026 9:21 amJune 10, 2026 9:33 am

Republicans have dropped their challenge to the independent candidacy of an anti-abortion leader who challenged Joe Biden in the 2024 Democratic presidential primary in New Jersey. Terrisa Bukovinac will remain on the ballot in November in New Jersey’s 9th district...

NJ-9 independent tossed from ballot

June 9, 2026 5:42 pmJune 9, 2026 6:33 pm

Perennial candidate Diomedes Minaya has been disqualified from the ballot in New Jersey’s 9th Congressional District after failing to submit enough valid signatures. Minaya filed 350 signatures, but Administrative Law Judge Andrew Baron found 104 of them invalid because the...

Tom DeGise wins in Hudson County

June 4, 2019 8:01 pmJune 4, 2019 6:18 pm

The New Jersey Globe is calling the Democratic primary for Hudson County Executive in favor of five-term incumbent Thomas DeGise. DeGise, left for dead at the side of the road fifteen months ago as Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop sought...

Gonzalez wants Kearny landfill closed

May 3, 2019 5:12 pmMay 3, 2019 6:44 pm

Kennith Gonzalez, the 18-year-old Republican candidate for Hudson County Executive, today called for the closure of the Keegan landfill in Kearny after local officials complained that hydrogen sulfide levels exceed the legal limit. “Having a hazardous landfill right next to...

Gloucester GOP joins youth movement

April 1, 2019 5:58 pm

Andrea Sammons is the latest addition to a list of millennial Republicans stepping up to run for office in counties where the GOP has struggled to win in recent years. Sammons, 23, will run for Gloucester County freeholder against incumbents...

18-year-old Republican runs for Hudson County Executive

March 11, 2019 9:51 amMarch 11, 2019 3:34 pm

Tom DeGise might face a general election opponent who is 50 years his junior. Eighteen-year-old college student Kennith Gonzalez announced today that he will seek the Republican nomination for Hudson County Executive. A political science student at Seton Hall University,...