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Gill: Hugin actions at Celgene require more scrutiny

July 27, 2018 12:04 amJuly 26, 2018 10:55 pm

TRENTON – State Sen. Nia Gill (D-Montclair) says a more thorough review of Bob Hugin’s tenure as CEO of pharmaceutical giant Celgene is warranted following news that the Republican U.S. Senate candidate fought the admission of women and gays into...

Weinberg: votes for budget not a worry

June 19, 2018 11:38 amJune 25, 2018 4:28 pm

Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg (D-Teaneck) isn’t afraid that defections from members of her caucus could derail legislative leadership’s plans to push their version of the budget through to the governor’s desk later this week. “I think we’re going to...

Murphycrats and Sweeneycans

June 16, 2018 6:05 pmJune 19, 2018 2:42 pm

In the State Senate, there are Murphycrats and Sweeneycans. Murphycrats are Democratic Senators who may be allied with Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy; Sweeneycans are Republican Senators who maintain an informal alliance with Senate President Steve Sweeney. Democrats have a 25-15...

Codey is a veteran of Democratic primaries

April 6, 2018 12:22 pmApril 10, 2018 4:41 pm

Dick Codey is accustomed to winning contested Democratic primaries. For the former governor, the Roseland War is part of his political wheelhouse. Back in 1973, the 26-year-old county committeeman from Orange was the top vote-getter in a State Assembly primary. ...

Murphy’s problem: he only has three, maybe four allies in the Senate

March 21, 2018 7:08 pmMarch 22, 2018 3:16 pm

Gov Phil Murphy has a historically low number of New Jersey State Senators he can rely on – you can literally count them on one hand and still have some fingers left over. And it’s no secret that Murphy and...

Sweeney dumps Sacco as Transportation chairman

January 9, 2018 11:04 pm

Senate President Steve Sweeney has removed Nicholas Sacco (D-Hudson) as Chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee and replaced him with Bob Gordon (D-Bergen). This comes as no surprise, since Sacco aligned himself with factions of the Democratic party that had...