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Another Assembly panel to hear early voting bill

January 4, 2021 11:30 am

The Assembly Appropriations Committee will hear a bill legalizing in-person early voting on Thursday. The measure, which passed the Assembly State and Local Government Committee in a party-line vote in October, would allow for 15 days of in-person early voting...

Kean, Thomson re-elected to 30th district Assembly seats

November 5, 2019 8:01 pmFebruary 14, 2023 5:56 pm

The New Jersey Globe is projecting that Republican incumbents Sean Kean and Ned Thomson have been re-elected to the New Jersey State Assembly in the 30th district. They defeated Democrats Jason Celik and Steven Farkas. Kean was elected to the...

Bramnick campaigning for re-election as minority leader

October 1, 2019 5:17 pm

Jon Bramnick (R-Westfield) is shoring up support for another term as Assembly Minority Leader, if he wins re-election to his 21st district seat this year. Bramnick had become concerned that a phantom race for the top leadership post might become...

AFL-CIO, building trades go in different directions on some Assembly endorsements

June 13, 2019 2:23 pmJune 14, 2019 9:45 am

Two major labor groups offered endorsements to Assembly incumbents even though they voted against them on core issues like the $15-per-hour minimum wage and the gas tax. The New Jersey AFL-CIO is backing three Democrats — Bob Andrzejczak (D-Middle), Bruce...

Michael J. Doherty is fighting to preserve religious vaccination exemptions.

Americans for Prosperity grades New Jersey legislators

March 22, 2019 7:00 amMarch 22, 2019 12:07 am

Five New Jersey legislators – all Republicans – received an A grade by Americans for Prosperity – New Jersey, but eleven Republicans saw their grades since last year. Every Democrat in the legislature earned a failing grade. AFP-New Jersey released...

Ocean GOP backs incumbents

February 17, 2019 9:52 am

The Ocean County Republican Organization screening committee voted unanimously on Saturday to renominate incumbents for state and county offices. For the eight State Assembly seats that include part of Ocean County, the GOP screening committee is backing DiAnne Gove (R-Long...