Millicent Fenwick Archives - New Jersey Globe

Some Kean for Congress history

April 16, 2019 5:47 pm

If Tom Kean, Jr. unseats Tom Malinowski next year, he’ll be the first Kean to win a congressional seat since 1956 – and the first in his family to oust an incumbent since 1938. Some Kean family history, as it...

The road to Parsippany Mayor Michael Soriano

April 1, 2019 12:15 amApril 1, 2019 1:14 pm

Decades of infighting among Parsippany Republicans led to Democratic mayors for 33 of the last 53 years in a solidly Republican town that once provided huge pluralities for GOP candidates running statewide and in Morris County. With intra-party quarrels on...

Janice Fields will run for Bernards Township Committee

February 18, 2019 10:54 amFebruary 18, 2019 2:20 pm

Somerset County Republican State Committeewoman Janice Fields has announced that she will seek be a candidate for the Bernards Township Committee when the local organization screens candidates on March 18. Mayor Carol Bianchi, a Republican, said last week that she...

Lorraine Gerson, oldest federal prosecutor, dies at 89

January 13, 2019 4:29 pm

Lorraine Gerson, the oldest serving federal prosecutor, died on January 7 after a brief battle with cancer. She was 89. Gerson served as an assistant U.S. Attorney from 1979 until her death and worked in the economic crimes under thirteen...

George H.W. Bush dies; last Republican presidential candidate to carry New Jersey

December 1, 2018 11:20 amDecember 3, 2018 2:50 pm

George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States and the last Republican presidential candidate to carry New Jersey, died on Friday night. He was 94. Bush had strong ties in New Jersey during his long political career. ...

Mission Impossible: The search for a GOP Senate candidate vs. Booker

November 12, 2018 12:38 pmNovember 13, 2018 11:24 am

Republicans will have a nearly impossible time recruiting a candidate to run against U.S. Senator Cory Booker in 2020. New Jerseyans just re-elected a senator with upside-down approvals of 36%-52%. Booker’s approvals are at 58%-37%. Their 2018 candidate, Bob Hugin...

38 years after losing to Fenwick, Democrat is still running

October 28, 2018 1:36 pmOctober 29, 2018 8:56 pm

In 1980, a 25-year-old Democrat running for Congress against Millicent Fenwick said that he was better positioned to help attract federal funding to solve flooding issues in the Green Brook basin because a Democrat, Jimmy Carter, occupied the oval office....