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Essex GOP runs all-woman countywide ticket

March 31, 2020 2:39 amMarch 31, 2020 2:42 am

Essex County Republicans have fielded an all-woman ticket of countywide candidates, something neither party has done before. The GOP slate includes one African American woman and one Latina. Monique Headen, Gynise Gotto, Bernara Quezada and Alexandra Campisi will run for...

Peter Cartmell, elected to office in 1948, dies at 98

February 29, 2020 4:19 pmMarch 2, 2020 11:22 am

Former Rumson mayor Peter Cartmell, an immigrant who won his first election 71 years ago and later led the fight to admit women and blacks to the all-male, all-white Essex Club, died on February 22. He was 98. The Monmouth...

Trailblazer: Congressman Donald Payne Sr.

January 20, 2020 12:53 amJanuary 20, 2020 8:54 am

Donald Payne, Sr. (1934-2012) was the first African American to represent New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives. He had run for Congress twice before winning the seat in 1988. In 1970, Payne became the first African American to...

Trailblazer: Mayor Kenneth Gibson

January 20, 2020 12:52 amJanuary 20, 2020 9:05 am

Kenneth Gibson (1932-2019) became the first African American to serve as mayor of a major northeastern city when he ousted two-term incumbent Hugh Addonizio in 1970. Gibson had served as an engineer for the New Jersey Highway Department and as...

Joseph Martin, former Essex County administrator, Union County manager, dies

January 2, 2020 9:05 am

Joseph A. Martin, Jr., who served as the Essex County Administrator and as the Union County manager, died on December 27. He was 73. Essex County Executive Peter Shapiro first appointed Martin as county administrator in 1985. He was replaced...

Bradley Beach Democrats back Schmid for Congress

November 12, 2019 9:01 am

Bradley Beach Democratic Municipal Chairman Stephen Lozowick has endorsed Stephanie Schmid for Congress in New Jersey’s 4th district – the first party leader to endorse Schmid’s bid to unseat Rep. Christopher Smith (R-Hamilton). Schmid has also won the backing of...

Fran Rein, Democratic consultant who ran Kennedy NJ campaign, dies at 75

October 14, 2019 11:29 amOctober 14, 2019 4:02 pm

Fran Rein, one of New Jersey’s top Democratic political operatives in the 1970s and 1980s, died this morning. She was 75. In 1980, Rein became Ted Kennedy’s New Jersey State Director during his bid to wrestle the Democratic presidential nomination...