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Malinowski raises $615k in 4th quarter, has more than $2 million cash-on-hand

January 16, 2020 8:00 amJanuary 15, 2020 11:02 pm

Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-Ringoes) has more than $2 million in his campaign warchest after raising an impressive $615,000 in the 4th quarter of 2019. without any contributions from corporate political action committees. The freshman congressman from New Jersey’s 7th district...

Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-Ringoes). Photo by Kevin Sanders for the New Jersey Globe.

Malinowski launches re-election bid on Sunday

January 9, 2020 11:17 pmJanuary 10, 2020 9:51 am

Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-Ringoes) will kickoff his bid for re-election to a second term in Congress on Sunday with a rally in Hunterdon County. Malinowski defeated five-term Rep. Leonard Lance (R-Clinton Township) in 2018, becoming the first Democrat to win...

Mendham Township Deputy Mayor Sarah Neibart

Neibart will seek Bucco Assembly seat

November 13, 2019 8:18 pm

Mendham Township Deputy Mayor Sarah Neibart will seek the 25th district State Assembly seat Anthony R. Bucco vacated in October when he moved up to the State Senate. Republican County Committee members have called a special election convention for November...

Race for Bucco’s seat could get crowded

November 9, 2019 10:58 pmNovember 11, 2019 10:56 am

The field of candidates to fill the remaining seven weeks of Anthony M. Bucco’s term in the State Assembly appears to be growing in advance of the November 14 filing deadline. Bucco resigned from the Assembly on October 24 after...

Guide to Union County Elections

November 2, 2019 10:56 pmNovember 3, 2019 5:29 pm

Republicans have not won a countywide election in Union County since 1995 and have not won a race for Surrogate since 1978. With 113,470 more Democrats than Republicans, there is no indication that Union County will change its political direction...

Help Wanted: Minority Conference Leader for Senate, Assembly

October 28, 2019 8:13 am

The death of State Sen. Anthony R. Bucco (R-Boonton) in September has set up a series of changes in the Republican leadership team in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature, regardless of the outcome of the 2019 mid-term elections....

Phillipsburg Democratic councilman switches parties

October 23, 2019 12:28 pm

A Democratic councilman from Phillipsburg has switched parties and will support the Republican challenger in the November 5 mayoral race. Mark Lutz, who won 31% of the vote in his Democratic primary challenge to Mayor Steven Ellis, switched to the...