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Murphy, DiVincenzo showing off new alliance

January 22, 2020 11:54 am

Essex County plans to construct a new courthouse named for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Gov. Phil Murphy and Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo will announce their plan to a new 150,000-square-foot office building in Newark that will accommodate 11...

Norcross dropped DiVincenzo Super Bowl party five months ago, memo shows

January 13, 2020 1:53 pmJanuary 13, 2020 3:10 pm

An InsiderNJ report that Democratic leader George Norcross pulled his participation in Joseph DiVincenzo’s annual Super Bowl party in Puerto Rico over Essex County Executive’s endorsement of Gov. Phil Murphy’s re-election and the fight over the state party chairmanship is...

Currie re-elected Dem state chairman

January 11, 2020 12:16 pmJanuary 13, 2020 10:37 am

Democratic State Chairman John Currie was reappointed without much drama Saturday morning, officially bringing an end to an internal feud that consumed the party for much of the last year. Essex County Democratic Chairman LeRoy Jones began publicly mulling a...

Currie requiring Dem state committee members to show photo ID

January 8, 2020 12:17 pm

John Currie is unopposed for re-election on Saturday, but Democratic State Committee members will still need to show photo identification in order to cast their vote. The new policy appears to contradict national Democratic Party opposition to photo ID laws...

Greenstein hasn’t thought about Thompson challenge in ’21

January 1, 2020 1:35 pmJanuary 1, 2020 4:52 pm

State Sen. Linda Greenstein (D-Plainsboro) indicated a willingness to run against State Sen. Sam Thompson (R-Old Bridge) next year if it meant Democrats could pick up another seat in the legislature’s upper chamber, though she said she hadn’t considered the...

Jones endorses Currie for re-election

December 18, 2019 4:12 pm

LeRoy Jones, Jr. officially dropped out of the race for Democratic State Chairman today and endorsed John Currie for re-election. The announcement comes one day after the two agreed to a deal where Currie will serve until June 2021, when...

State chairman deal came because neither side was certain of their count

December 18, 2019 10:59 amDecember 18, 2019 5:23 pm

Neither side had enough confidence in their count to take the race for New Jersey Democratic State Chairman to a vote, so a compromise ended a year-long fight to lead what is still a deeply divided party. John Currie will...