Pat Menna Archives - New Jersey Globe

Healy, Schundler, nineteen other ex-mayors endorse Fulop for Governor

January 17, 2024 8:30 amJanuary 17, 2024 12:24 pm

Twenty-one former mayors from eleven New Jersey counties have endorsed Steve Fulop for the Democratic nomination for governor, including his three predecessors: Jerramiah Healy, L. Harvey Smith, and Bret Schundler, a Republican. The Healy and Schundler endorsements are symbolically significant:...

Two slates duke it out in Red Bank’s first nonpartisan local election

April 26, 2023 11:41 amApril 28, 2023 8:58 am

When it comes to political drama per square mile, Red Bank has long been one of New Jersey’s most effective municipalities. For years, Democrats in the Monmouth County borough of 13,000 have been locked in a brutal internecine fight, with...

Portman upsets Ballard in Red Bank Democratic mayoral primary

June 7, 2022 9:41 pm

In an upset victory, Red Bank Councilman Michael Ballard has lost the Democratic mayoral primary to Bill Portman, who ran off the line. Incumbent Mayor Pat Menna did not run for re-election. Portman did not field any council candidates, so...

Mirandi will remain on Red Bank Council, judge orders

April 12, 2022 5:25 pmApril 12, 2022 5:54 pm

An internecine battle among Red Bank Democrats has been resolved in municipal chairman Edward Zipprich’s favor, with a Superior Court judge ruling that appointed Councilwoman Angela Mirandi can remain on the borough council over the objections of a competing Democratic...

Gopal raises $250k at fundraiser with Sweeney, Coughlin

December 9, 2019 11:39 pm

At a fundraiser headlined by Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin, State Sen. Vin Gopal (D-Long Branch) raised more than $250,000 tonight for his 2021 re-election campaign. Gopal has raised about $880,000 since ousting three-term GOP incumbent...