Richard Coffee Archives - New Jersey Globe

Labor Leader: Paul J. Krebs, last president of N.J. CIO served one-term in Congress

September 1, 2025 12:11 amAugust 31, 2025 5:42 pm

The last New Jersey Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey was Paul Krebs (1912-1996), labor leader and one-term congressman from Livingston. His story involves one of the great New Jersey labor union feuds. The account starts...

Labor Leader: Paul J. Krebs, last president of N.J. CIO served one-term in Congress

September 2, 2024 12:10 amSeptember 1, 2024 8:36 pm

The last New Jersey Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey was Paul Krebs (1912-1996), labor leader and one-term congressman from Livingston. His story involves one of the great New Jersey labor union feuds. The account starts...

Tony Carabelli, 12-term Mercer County Freeholder, dies at 88

September 9, 2023 5:29 pm

Anthony P. Carabelli, a popular Democrat who spent 36 years as a Mercer County freeholder during a magnificent political career than began while John F. Kennedy was president, has died. He was 88. “Tony Carabelli was a resolute and respected...

Labor Leader: Paul J. Krebs, last president of N.J. CIO served one-term in Congress

September 4, 2023 12:10 amSeptember 3, 2023 5:14 pm

The last New Jersey Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey was Paul Krebs (1912-1996), labor leader and one-term congressman from Livingston. His story involves one of the great New Jersey labor union feuds. The account starts...

Labor Leader: Paul J. Krebs, last president of NJ CIO served one-term in Congress

September 5, 2022 12:07 amSeptember 4, 2022 3:49 pm

The last New Jersey Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey was Paul Krebs (1912-1996), labor leader and one-term congressman from Livingston. His story involves one of the great New Jersey labor union feuds. The account starts...

Biden 1972 consultant worked on Dick Coffee for governor campaign in 1973

February 21, 2022 12:00 amFebruary 19, 2022 4:31 pm

The first link between Joe Biden and New Jersey politics came a few months after he won a seat in the United States Senate. Biden was just 29 when he unseated incumbent J. Caleb Boggs, a two-term Republican Senator who...

Cimino will retire as top Assembly Democratic staffer

December 6, 2021 12:03 pmDecember 6, 2021 12:43 pm

Anthony (Skip) Cimino, whose institutional knowledge helped a new Speaker navigate statehouse politics during a frenzied and sometimes chaotic period during Gov. Phil Murphy’s first term, will retire as executive director of the Assembly Majority Office. He will be replaced...