Marguerite Simon Archives - New Jersey Globe

ELEC commissioners resign, pre-empting bill that would force them out

March 30, 2023 6:53 pm

As first reported by NJ Advance Media’s Matt Arco and confirmed by the New Jersey Globe, all three commissioners of the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC) – Eric Jaso, Steve Holden, and Marguerite Simon – have resigned their...

ELEC commissioners will not discipline Brindle over insensitive email

March 28, 2023 4:14 pmMarch 29, 2023 8:05 am

Following a public hearing, the commissioners of the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC), the state’s campaign finance watchdog, announced today that they will not discipline ELEC executive director Jeff Brindle over an insensitive email he sent last year....

Senate Republicans may push for ELEC vacancy to be filled

January 31, 2022 11:32 am

With one of the two Republican seats on the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC) remaining vacant for more than four years, Senate Minority Leader Steven Oroho (R-Franklin) said today that his caucus will work to fill that seat...

Still nothing to report on ELEC board vacancy, governor says

January 24, 2022 3:28 pmJanuary 24, 2022 4:45 pm

Though one of two Republican seats on the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC) board has been vacant for more than four years, Gov. Phil Murphy said today that he still has no current plan to fill the vacancy....

N.J. passed abortion parental notification law 20 years ago, but Supreme Court struck it down

September 2, 2021 3:02 pmSeptember 3, 2021 10:01 am

New Jersey’s bid to pass a law to require pregnant teenagers from obtaining an abortion unless their parents were notified was a big issue in state politics two decades ago and ended with the intervention of the courts. This was...

Murphy declines to say if he’ll fill Republican vacancy on ELEC board

June 9, 2021 2:38 pmJune 9, 2021 6:39 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy declined to say whether he planned to nominate another Republican to the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission. “I’ve got no crisp reply on the law enforcement commission,” he said during Wednesday’s virus briefing. ELEC, the body...