Octavio Alfonso Archives - New Jersey Globe

Arango re-elected Hudson GOP Chairman

June 24, 2025 7:19 pmJune 25, 2025 1:20 pm

Hudson County GOP Chairman Jose Arango was re-elected tonight without opposition to a post he’s held since 2000. Arango, a former assemblyman, is the longest-serving Republican county chairman in the state. He first served in 1989, and again since 2000. ...

18 of 21 New Jersey counties have one-party control

August 27, 2021 4:34 pmAugust 28, 2021 8:12 am

In the counties that represent 95% of the state’s population, one political party controls every county office, and voters in 18 of New Jersey’s 21 counties have little electoral say beyond the primary election of the majority party – if...

Fanny Cedeno is Brian Stack pick for Hudson Freeholder

January 2, 2020 8:30 pmMay 15, 2022 10:56 pm

A new Hudson County Freeholder for District 6 will be Fanny Erazo Cedeno, a young Latina and a top aide to Union City Mayor Brian Stack, the New Jersey Globe has learned. Cedeno is Stack’s choice to fill the unexpired...

Mocco is a presence at Wainstein headquarters

February 7, 2019 11:55 amFebruary 7, 2019 4:15 pm

There’s an older man who shows up at Larry Wainstein’s North Bergen headquarters a few times a week. He says his name is Frank. He doesn’t use his last name. Frank seems to know a lot about local politics, and...

Lee Lichtenberger, former Hudson GOP chairman, dies at 66

December 29, 2018 1:19 amDecember 31, 2018 3:07 pm

Lee S. Lichtenberger, a former Hudson County Republican Chairman who served during a brief resurgence of the Hudson GOP in the 1980’s, passed away on Friday evening. He was 66. He was elected Secaucus Republican Municipal Chairman in 1978 and...

The Republican screw up that made Menendez Mayor

March 13, 2018 2:02 amMarch 14, 2018 2:16 am

The success of Bob Menendez’s political career might be because of bad staff work. The story starts in 1976, when Hudson County gave Jimmy Carter a paltry 23,605 vote margin against Gerald Ford. Assembly Speaker Joseph LeFante (D-Bayonne), largely blamed...