Mark Smith Archives - New Jersey Globe

State’s seven-year case against Jason O’Donnell will end without conviction

September 11, 2026 10:48 amSeptember 12, 2026 5:18 pm

A nearly seven-year criminal prosecution launched by the then-fledgling Office of Public Integrity and Accountability is nearly over without a trial, conviction, or admission of guilt, after state prosecutors agreed to let former Assemblyman Jason O’Donnell (D-Bayonne) enter a one-year...

New Bayonne mayor gets to pick top county officials — and maybe fill an Assembly seat

May 13, 2026 5:38 pmMay 13, 2026 5:45 pm

In Hudson, the county clerk is traditionally selected by the mayor of Jersey City, and the deputy county clerk is chosen by the mayor of Bayonne. Until she was let go at the end of 2022, the deputy county clerk...

Healy, Schundler, nineteen other ex-mayors endorse Fulop for Governor

January 17, 2024 8:30 amJanuary 17, 2024 12:24 pm

Twenty-one former mayors from eleven New Jersey counties have endorsed Steve Fulop for the Democratic nomination for governor, including his three predecessors: Jerramiah Healy, L. Harvey Smith, and Bret Schundler, a Republican. The Healy and Schundler endorsements are symbolically significant:...

Bayonne mayor’s ex-chief of staff, who is also his nephew, will run campaign to unseat him

February 16, 2022 9:02 amFebruary 16, 2022 1:06 pm

Two Democrats with close ties to Bayonne Mayor Jimmy Davis will run the campaign to unseat him, the latest in a series of close political advisors that are opposing his bid for a third term. Andrew Casais, Davis’ nephew and...

A look ahead at May’s municipal elections

January 21, 2022 5:37 pmFebruary 1, 2022 10:14 am

It’s always election season in New Jersey. This May, voters in many of New Jersey’s biggest municipalities, as well as some of its smallest, will hold municipal elections to determine who will lead their towns for the next four years....

Davis launches re-election campaign for Bayonne mayor

January 3, 2022 11:36 am

Bayonne Mayor Jimmy Davis officially announced today that he will seek a third term this year, eight years after the Democrat and former police captain first defeated incumbent Mayor Mark Smith in a 2014 runoff election. “Even with the unprecedented...

Sampson says missing elections could help him motivate other young people who don’t vote

March 19, 2021 9:56 amMarch 19, 2021 12:24 pm

The candidate who is poised to replace Assembly Majority Whip Nicholas Chiaravalloti (D-Bayonne) is pushing back on a New Jersey Globe report that he has never voted in a Democratic primary and has a shoddy record in general elections. “I...