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Ramos raises $75k for 2022

July 22, 2018 4:16 pmSeptember 1, 2018 5:42 pm

Newark City Councilman Anibal Ramos raised more than $75,000 last week at a fundraiser for his 2022 re-election campaign. The funds could be used to run for mayor, if incumbent Ras Baraka decides not to seek re-election to a third...

Mo Butler named partner at Mercury

June 8, 2018 11:01 amJune 25, 2018 4:25 pm

Modia “Mo” Butler, the top political advisor to U.S. Senator Cory Booker, has been named partner at Mercury, one of the most powerful public affairs firms in New Jersey and nationally. Butler joins two other prominent New Jersey partners: Michael...

Baraka re-elected with massive 77%

May 9, 2018 5:49 amMay 10, 2018 12:20 pm

Newark mayor Ras Baraka won a stunning landslide victory for re-election to a second term on Tuesday, taking 77% of the vote against Central Ward councilwoman Gayle Cheneyfield Jenkins. Baraka carried all five wards by massive margins as he beat...

Baraka says he’ll take all five wards

May 8, 2018 4:44 pmMay 9, 2018 12:03 pm

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is confident going into today’s election – but not confident enough to predict a landslide or prematurely talk about a mandate for a second term. “I feel like it, yea,” said when asked if he thought...

Sacco slate wins 10-1 in North Bergen school board race

April 17, 2018 8:48 pmMay 8, 2020 4:06 pm

Three three incumbent North Bergen school board candidates endorsed by Mayor/State Sen. Nicholas Sacco crushed a slate of candidates backed by likely 2019 mayoral challenger Larry Wainstein tonight. 23 candidates appeared on the ballot for the three Board of Education...

Booker’s approvals hit all-time high

April 12, 2018 5:22 pmApril 13, 2018 10:05 am

U.S. Senator Cory Booker is New Jersey’s most popular politician, according to a Monmouth University poll released today. His approval numbers are at an all-time high. The poll is mostly all good news for Booker, who has been in the...

Adorable relationship between Menendez, Booker breaks tradition

March 29, 2018 12:39 pmMarch 30, 2018 9:44 am

The bromance between New Jersey’s two United States Senators is sugary and unusual in a state where Senators classically despise each other – often in a very public way. These days, Bob Menendez and Cory Booker are joined at the...