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Arango re-elected Hudson GOP Chairman

June 24, 2025 7:19 pmJune 25, 2025 1:20 pm

Hudson County GOP Chairman Jose Arango was re-elected tonight without opposition to a post he’s held since 2000. Arango, a former assemblyman, is the longest-serving Republican county chairman in the state. He first served in 1989, and again since 2000. ...

How Bob Menendez rebranded himself in a post-Musto Union City and kept Hudson County blue

January 29, 2025 4:20 pm

It’s a story that happens often in New Jersey politics, where cliques and factions sometimes create toxic environments within one party in control of local government, and U.S. Senator Bob Menendez’s political trajectory happened in sort of the same way....

How Bob Menendez rebranded himself in a post-Musto Union City and kept Hudson County blue

May 13, 2024 12:03 amMay 13, 2024 12:49 pm

It’s a story that happens often in New Jersey politics, where cliques and factions sometimes create toxic environments within one party in control of local government, and U.S. Senator Bob Menendez’s political trajectory happened in sort of the same way....

How Bob Menendez became a mayor

January 3, 2020 9:30 am

It’s a story that happens often in New Jersey politics, where cliques and factions sometimes create toxic environments within one party in control of local government. That was in the case in Galloway on Thursday night, where a Republican township...

Bucco would be the 5th sitting Senator to run for Assembly

September 25, 2019 1:29 amSeptember 25, 2019 1:50 am

Anthony Bucco would not be the first sitting State Senator to seek a seat in the New Jersey State Assembly, but he is the first to run with no intention of keeping the job. Some Senators have gone to the...

Lee Lichtenberger, former Hudson GOP chairman, dies at 66

December 29, 2018 1:19 amDecember 31, 2018 3:07 pm

Lee S. Lichtenberger, a former Hudson County Republican Chairman who served during a brief resurgence of the Hudson GOP in the 1980’s, passed away on Friday evening. He was 66. He was elected Secaucus Republican Municipal Chairman in 1978 and...

The Republican screw up that made Menendez Mayor

March 13, 2018 2:02 amMarch 14, 2018 2:16 am

The success of Bob Menendez’s political career might be because of bad staff work. The story starts in 1976, when Hudson County gave Jimmy Carter a paltry 23,605 vote margin against Gerald Ford. Assembly Speaker Joseph LeFante (D-Bayonne), largely blamed...