Rodney Frelinghuysen Archives

Sherrill sitting on monster $4.6 million warchest

October 14, 2021 5:05 pm

Some news for the seven Republicans angling to run for Congress in New Jersey’s 11th district next year: Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair) has $4,561,710 in the bank after raising a whopping $627,976 during the third quarter of 2021. That means...

Frelinghuysen is now one of Mexico’s foreign agents

October 14, 2021 1:51 pm

Former House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Proctor Frelinghuysen has filed as a foreign agent for Mexico, Legistorm reported on Thursday. His representation of Mexico’s Secretaria de Economia comes through Greenberg Traurig, the national law firm he joined in 2020 as...

Selen launches bid to unseat Sherrill in NJ-11

August 16, 2021 10:42 pmAugust 24, 2021 12:42 pm

Morris County Commissioner Tayfun Selen will challenge Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair) in New Jersey’s 11th district next year, giving Republicans a proven vote-getter who ran five percentage points ahead of Donald Trump in 2020. That sets up a possible GOP...

Ex-Morristown mayor, 75, heads to court to make his 24th run for public office

June 28, 2021 11:37 am

A former Morristown mayor is headed to court next month in a bid to run as an independent in a rematch with the incumbent who unseated him 12 years ago. Donald Cresitello, a local officeholder and perennial candidate in Morristown...

Barranco, Webber win GOP nods in district 26

June 9, 2021 12:05 amJune 9, 2021 7:02 am

Assemblywoman BettyLou DeCroce (R-Parsippany) has lost her re-election race to former Pompton Lakes Councilman Christian Barranco. The contest saw schisms form between the 26th district’s Republican county organizations. Morris County, which accounts 78% of the district’s GOP primary voters, awarded...

Veterans: Frelinghuysen and Kean families

May 31, 2021 12:01 amMay 31, 2021 11:05 pm

When you trace the roots of the Frelinghuysen family back to the American Revolution, you can start with Frederick Frelinghuysen, who was the very model of a modern Major-General. Frelinghuysen was a colonel in the Continental Army before his election...

Murphy set to name ex-Frelinghuysen opponent to bench

May 24, 2021 9:46 am

Vijayant Pawar, the Democratic candidate for Congress in New Jersey’s 11th district in 2002, is expected to be nominated to a Superior Court judgeship today, the New Jersey Globe has learned. If confirmed by the State Senate, Gov. Phil Murphy’s...