Lisa McCormick Archives - New Jersey Globe

Eight N.J. incumbents face no primary opponents for re-election

March 24, 2026 12:24 pm

One of the most important national storylines of the 2026 election is entrenched incumbents of both parties facing serious primary challengers, but what may be a wave in other states has turned into a trickle in New Jersey: only three...

Lisa McCormick ally will challenge Conaway in NJ-3 primary

February 25, 2026 4:55 pmFebruary 25, 2026 5:04 pm

Lisa McCormick, the shadowy perennial candidate who is waging her latest campaign this year against U.S. Senator Cory Booker, is recruiting other candidates to run on her statewide Democratic primary ticket. Shawn Scott, a Marine Corps veteran and corrections officer...

(Updated) James Devine gets two years probation for forging signatures on nominating petitions

October 18, 2024 12:28 pmOctober 18, 2024 9:15 pm

Controversial and mendacious political consultant James Devine was sentenced to two years on probation and a $182 fine for filing fake nominating petitions in the 2021 Democratic gubernatorial primary. Devine, 62, admitted to filing 1,948 fraudulent signatures to get shadowy perennial...

Breaking down the county-by-county battle between Andy Kim and Tammy Murphy

December 15, 2023 6:24 pmDecember 18, 2023 9:34 am

Every once in a while, there’s an election that makes the other 49 states suddenly pay a huge amount of attention to New Jersey politics. Next year’s explosive race for the United States Senate, with First Lady Tammy Murphy and...

How it went the last time Bob Menendez faced Democratic primary voters

September 29, 2023 5:21 pmApril 21, 2025 4:16 pm

Senator Bob Menendez had every conceivable advantage going into his 2018 Democratic Senate primary. He had twelve years of incumbency, unified Democratic support everywhere in the state, and a basically clean legal bill of health after federal charges against him...

With Menendez under indictment, what’s going to happen to his Senate seat?

September 22, 2023 11:52 amSeptember 23, 2023 12:35 am

U.S. Senator Bob Menendez was indicted today on federal bribery charges, sending shockwaves through the political worlds of both New Jersey and Washington D.C. The ensuing legal proceedings to determine Menendez’s guilt or innocence could, of course, take years to...

Jim Devine was always shadowy, Lesniak recalls

April 29, 2023 5:56 pm

James Devine, the controversial and mendacious political consultant charged with election fraud, demonstrated an inclination to fix elections as far back as 1981 when he was helping Raymond Lesniak (D-Elizabeth) win a third term in the State Assembly after party...