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A story about Democratic grass roots activists in New Jersey

February 15, 2021 12:19 amFebruary 15, 2021 12:16 am

The emergence of a serious grass roots, activist movement within the New Jersey Democratic Party has happened before. One certainty is that Donald Trump’s presidency, which ended last month, engaged new people into state and local politics from both people...

New Jersey governors and presidential primaries

February 15, 2021 12:13 amFebruary 14, 2021 7:02 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy was the first governor to stay out of the presidential race in 28 years, leaving Democratic county chairs — and in some cases, Democratic County Committee members — to award the organization line in the 2020 New...

Key moment for Nixon was when 18 New Jersey Republicans bolted from Case

February 15, 2021 12:12 amFebruary 13, 2021 6:27 pm

For some time, presidential primaries in New Jersey where nothing more than beauty contests where the preferred candidate of a voter was deemed so unimportant that their names did not appear on the ballot. Instead, voters had to wrote in...

Michael Piarulli, former Camden freeholder and 1966 congressional candidate, dies at 93

August 27, 2020 12:38 pmAugust 27, 2020 2:09 pm

Michael J. Piarulli, a former Camden County freeholder and the 1966 Democratic candidate for Congress in New Jersey’s 1st district, died on August 21. He was 94. He entered local politics in 1959 when he came the Camden City Solicitor...

Lewis Kaden, counsel to Gov. Brendan Byrne, dies at 78

June 29, 2020 1:58 amJune 29, 2020 2:04 am

Lewis B. Kaden, Gov. Brendan Byrne’s first counsel and a former aide to U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, died on Sunday. He was 78. He died of injuries related to a fall at his Westchester home on June 15, according...

Martin Luther King III featured in Kennedy radio ad

June 7, 2020 3:06 pmJune 7, 2020 10:31 pm

Martin Luther King III, the son of the slain civil rights leader, is featured on a new radio ad endorsing Amy Kennedy for the Democratic nomination for Congress in New Jersey’s 2nd district. The ad criticizes “the deadly pattern of...

Holley being urged to challenge Murphy in ’21 Democratic primary

March 13, 2020 1:59 pmMarch 13, 2020 2:42 pm

Assemblyman Jamel C. Holley (D-Roselle) acknowledged that he is being recruited to challenge Gov. Phil Murphy in the 2021 Democratic gubernatorial primary, and while saying he hasn’t really thought about it, he stopped short of ruling it out. “There are...