Lawrence Hamm Archives - New Jersey Globe

No white men seeking Cory Booker’s Senate seat

March 27, 2020 10:24 am

The only certainty in New Jersey right now is that neither party will nominate a white man for the United States Senate. That’s because out of the seven candidates, two are African American, two are South Asian, two are women,...

Sanders campaign chief taking on Booker in Senate primary

March 16, 2020 11:58 pmMarch 17, 2020 12:05 am

The chairman of Bernie Sanders’ New Jersey campaign filed nominating petitions today to challenge incumbent Cory Booker in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. Lawrence Hamm said he filed over 2,500 signatures, considerably more than the 1,000 required by state...

Gottheimer wins Warren line over Kreibich, impressively

March 9, 2020 7:44 pm

Josh Gottheimer won the Warren County Democratic convention on Sunday by a solid but hardly overwhelming margin. The two-term congressman defeated progressive challenger Arati Kreibich, a Glen Rock councilwoman, by just fourteen votes, 34 to 20, to score the organization...

In presidential race, Harrison was with Booker, Kennedy with Biden

March 7, 2020 3:22 pmMarch 7, 2020 6:20 pm

Cory Booker’s decision to endorse Brigid Callahan Harrison for Congress in the hotly-contested 2nd district Democratic primary could be the settling of some political IOUs from the presidential race. Harrison contributed $1,000 to Booker’s White House bid last December. Amy...

Silverstein will manage Booker re-election campaign

February 27, 2020 12:32 pm

Adam Silverstein, one of New Jersey’s top Democratic strategists, will serve as campaign manager for Cory Booker’s bid for re-election to the United States Senate. Silverstein was the architect of successful campaigns to elect James Tedesco as the Bergen County...

Booker backs open presidential primaries in New Jersey

February 25, 2020 6:55 pmFebruary 26, 2020 1:37 pm

U.S. Senator Cory Booker favors a plan for no organization lines in the presidential primary in June. “Cory supports an open presidential primary in New Jersey,” his spokesman, Tom Pietrykoski, told the New Jersey Globe. Booker becomes the latest top...

Booker, Pascrell unopposed at Bergen Dem convention

February 21, 2020 6:30 pmFebruary 21, 2020 6:42 pm

Two progressives challenging Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-Paterson) in the Democratic primary did not file petitions to compete for the endorsement of the Bergen County Democrats, assuring the 12-term congressman the organization line in his bid for re-election. Zina Spezakis...