Rob Andrews Archives - New Jersey Globe

How New Jersey almost had two U.S. Attorneys following close 2001 vote

April 25, 2021 7:51 pm

As New Jersey prepares for a new U.S. Attorney and the filling of U.S. District Court Judge vacancies, there has been no talk of renewing a 20-year-old plan to break up the 21-county District of New Jersey and give South...

Kornacki: No other state has New Jersey’s politics

December 1, 2020 8:31 pm

Take it from Steve Kornacki: New Jersey’s politics are unique. In a virtual conversation with Rowan University’s Ben Dworkin, the NBC and MSNBC national political correspondent said the Garden State’s political landscape dwarfed even those of similarly old states. “I...

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

September 7, 2020 12:01 amSeptember 6, 2020 12:24 am

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...

N.J. Supreme Court: The Christie Court

June 7, 2020 10:12 pmJune 7, 2020 11:23 pm

The ninth governor of New Jersey to serve under the 1947 State Constitution was Republican Chris Christie, who became the first in history to refuse the reappointment of a sitting justice – he did it twice – and the first...

Paul McCurrie, elected Assemblyman from Hudson in 1961, dies at 91

May 17, 2020 4:20 pmMay 19, 2020 1:27 pm

Paul J. McCurrie, who served in the New Jersey State Assembly from 1962 to 1964, died on May 15. He was 91. McCurrie was a 32-year-old attorney and U.S. Navy veteran when the Hudson County Democratic organization picked him to...

How Amy Kennedy won

March 9, 2020 3:33 pmMarch 9, 2020 6:43 pm

Amy Kennedy’s victory at the Atlantic County Democratic convention was a victory for progressives at the grassroots level, although there were several factors in play that led to a rare loss by a candidate supported by powerbroker George Norcross. Kennedy...

Former congressmen still holding on to warchests

February 20, 2020 12:48 pmFebruary 20, 2020 1:39 pm

Six former congressmen from New Jersey have a combined warchest of nearly $900,000, according to reports filed with the federal election commission. And Frank Lautenberg, who has been dead for nearly seven years, has $89,803 remaining in his campaign account....