One takeaway from the race between Mikie Sherrill and Rosemary Becchi in New the 11th district: since women won the right to vote in 1920, this is just the 5th time both major parties have nominated a woman to run...
The last New Jersey Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey was Paul Krebs (1912-1996), labor leader and one-term congressman from Livingston. His story involves one of the great New Jersey labor union feuds. The account starts...
Albert Angrisani, who played a key role in Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign in New Jersey and then served as Assistant U.S. Secretary of Labor, died on April 23. He was 70. Angrisani began his political career in 1976 as...
A vote by Ocean County Republicans to pick a man over a woman in the race for Congress this week is consistent with a track record of not running women for office over the last 100 years. The chain might...
Arati Kreibich is raising money off the House’s vote to eliminate the deadline to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, but her fundraising pitch doesn’t mention Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-Wyckoff) co-sponsored the measure and voted for it this morning. In an...
For those who are relatively new to New Jersey politics, here’s how we got election results in the old days – at least in Essex County where I witnessed the counting process for the first time in 1974. When the...
Union County will be the first GOP organization to take sides in the race for U.S. Senate when they hold their convention this evening. Republicans have lost the last sixteen races for U.S. Senate in New Jersey and haven’t won...