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Sacco struggles to deliver votes in Democratic primary

June 16, 2025 8:56 pmJune 17, 2025 11:55 pm

There are signs that the 40-year reign of North Bergen Mayor Nicholas Sacco is nearing an end after a series of losses in last week’s Hudson County Democratic Civil War show a significant decline in his mojo; he once had...

How Sacco got to the N.J. Senate

February 24, 2022 9:02 amSeptember 25, 2025 12:31 pm

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 clobbers Wainstein in North Bergen race

May 14, 2019 8:55 pmMay 15, 2019 1:44 am

North Bergen Mayor Nicholas J. Sacco won an overwhelming landslide victory over challenger Larry Wainstein as voters re-elected him to a 10th term on the township commission on Tuesday evening. Sacco won a head-to-head contest against Wainstein with 69%, 7,768...

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...

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....

In Hudson, it’s not a war, it’s a warette

March 9, 2018 10:41 amMarch 10, 2018 3:04 pm

If you’ve seen a Hudson County political war, you’ll know the fight to dump Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise isn’t one of them – at least right now. It’s really just a warette. The last real war was in 1987. ...