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Tag: Raymond Garramone

N.J. State Senators more likely to die in office than win election as governor

November 21, 2021   2:33 pm
New Jersey State Senators are more likely to die in office than to use the Senate as a springboard to another elected post.  Under the current State Constitution passed in 1947, 68 sitting state senators have asked voters to promote...
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Five N.J. governors have avoided re-election primaries and Murphy is one of them

June 6, 2021   10:34 pm
Seeking to become the first Democratic governor to win a second term in 44 years, Gov. Phil is expected to get more than 99% of the primary election vote on Tuesday – with only a handful of write-in votes stopping...
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Decade before Joe Clark ran for freeholder, another nationally-known celebrity ran for State Senate in an East Orange-based district

December 30, 2020   12:23 pmDecember 30, 2020   5:21 pm
A bid for Essex County freeholder by bullhorn-toting, baseball bat-wielding high school principal Joe Clark in 1988 came eleven years after another nationally acclaimed celebrity sought public office in an East Orange-based district. Althea Gibson, the first Black win the...
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Happy Birthday, Jim Florio

August 29, 2020   8:16 pmAugust 30, 2020   12:02 am
Happy Birthday to former Gov. Jim Florio, who turned 83 today. Florio has been a fixture in New Jersey politics since 1969, when he won a seat in the New Jersey.  He spent fifteen years as a congressman from South...
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Most incumbent governors face primary challenges

January 29, 2020   10:48 amJanuary 29, 2020   10:54 am
Gov. Phil Murphy could face a challenge from former Assistant Attorney General Shavar Jeffries in the 2021 Democratic gubernatorial primary, a move that is not unusual in New Jersey. Six of the last ten governors faced primaries in their bids...
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Some 1960s Bergen County political history

March 3, 2019   10:22 pmMarch 4, 2019   8:59 am
Until the U.S. Supreme Court’s one-man, one-vote ruling, Bergen County began the 1960’s with one state Senator – Walter Jones (R-Norwood) — and seven Assembly seats. Jones gave up that Senate seat after eight years in 1961 to run for...
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Julie Levinson, longtime Democratic leader, dies

October 9, 2018   10:18 amOctober 9, 2018   11:38 am
Julie Levinson, a former aide to State Senators Raymond Garramone and Loretta Weinberg, passed away on October 7 of congestive heart failure. After a short career working for ABC-TV in New York, Levinson became active in Bergen County Democratic politics. ...
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