Peter Mocco Archives - New Jersey Globe

Sacco and Murphy are back together as North Bergen fundraiser draws 2,000 people

October 8, 2021 1:09 amOctober 8, 2021 1:30 pm

Over 2,000 people showed up at Nicholas Sacco’s fundraiser on Thursday evening, numbers that were not at all unusual for the longtime state senator and North Bergen mayor. But the impactful news of the night was the attendance of Gov....

Joseph Ryglicki, former Hudson Surrogate and political veteran, dies at 73

March 27, 2021 8:37 pmMarch 29, 2021 1:06 am

Joseph Ryglicki, a former Hudson County Surrogate and a veteran of some of North Bergen’s greatest political wars, died on March 26 after a long battle with cancer. He was 73. Ryglicki’s tenure in politics goes back to the 1970s...

Sacco clobbers Wainstein in North Bergen race

May 14, 2019 8:55 pmMay 15, 2019 1:44 am

North Bergen Mayor Nicholas J. Sacco won an overwhelming landslide victory over challenger Larry Wainstein as voters re-elected him to a 10th term on the township commission on Tuesday evening. Sacco won a head-to-head contest against Wainstein with 69%, 7,768...

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...

In Hudson, it’s not a war, it’s a warette

March 9, 2018 10:41 amMarch 10, 2018 3:04 pm

If you’ve seen a Hudson County political war, you’ll know the fight to dump Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise isn’t one of them – at least right now. It’s really just a warette. The last real war was in 1987. ...