Former Rep. Michael Pappas will be the new Bridgewater Township Administrator, Mayor-elect Matthew Moench announced today. Pappas served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1997 to 1999. He lost his bid for re-election to Democrat Rush Holt (D-Hopewell). The...
Somerset County Sheriff Frank J. Provenzano will not seek re-election to a 7th term, setting up a fight for an open seat in one of New Jersey’s most politically competitive counties. Provenzano has endorsed North Plainfield police chief Bill Parenti...
Two Democrats will take office today as the newest members of the Somerset County Board of Freeholders, reducing the Republican majority from 5-0 to 3-2 and setting up a race for control of county government in 2019. Gov. Phil Murphy...
Julia Fahl, a 28-year-old political fundraiser and lobbyist who ousted 27-year incumbent David DelVecchio in the June Democratic primary, was sworn in today as the new mayor of Lambertville. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Ewing) administered the oath of office to...
Good news for Tom Malinowski and Jeff Van Drew: New Jersey congressmen who spend their first two years in the Cannon House Office Building are statistically more likely to get re-elected than freshmen who draw an office in Longworth. Fourteen...
Since Leonard Lance called Tom Malinowski a carpetbagger in last night’s debate – an unfair allegation, since Malinowski grew up in a town next door to the current boundaries of district – here’s a great story about carpetbagging that comes...
Rush Holt is 70 today, the 11th oldest of the nineteen living former Congressmen from New Jersey. The oldest is Cornelius Gallagher, who celebrated his 97th birthday last March. The Bayonne Democrat was first elected to Congress in 1958, making...