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Chris Smith fundraising off Currie threat

September 28, 2019 4:32 pmSeptember 29, 2019 11:07 pm

Rep. Christopher Smith (R-Hamilton) is raising money off a threat by the Democratic State Chairman that he’s looking to flip New Jersey’s lone Republican congressional seat from red to blue. “Chris Smith, we’re coming for you,” InsiderNJ reported John Currie...

Ex-State Department official will announce challenge to Chris Smith next month

August 28, 2019 9:07 pm

Stephanie Schmid, a former U.S. State Department official, will announce her bid for the Democratic nomination for Congress in New Jersey’s 4th district on September 7. Schmid wants to take on 20-term Rep. Christopher Smith (R-Hamilton), the lone Republican in...

Once a Democrat, Meissner is now a proud Trump Republican

August 22, 2019 2:36 pmAugust 23, 2019 11:12 am

Stuart Meissner, the former prosecutor considering a run for U.S. Senate against Cory Booker next year, contributed $16 to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. That was the year he became a Republican. One a Democratic activist, Meissner is now all-in...

Allocco mulling challenge to Sherrill

August 7, 2019 11:38 amAugust 7, 2019 11:48 am

Patrick Allocco, a former aide to New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean, says he is considering a challenge to Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair) in New Jersey’s 11th district next year. “I am thinking about running,” Allocco told the New Jersey Globe. ...

Rothman says he never considered challenge to Garrett

August 6, 2019 3:15 pmAugust 7, 2019 11:39 am

OPINION I recently read an article in New Jersey Globe that said, incorrectly, that when the New Jersey Republican plan for Congressional Redistricting was enacted and presented as a fait accompli to the New Jersey Congressional Delegation in December 2011,...

Maps: Sanders vs. Clinton in NJ-5

August 2, 2019 8:51 amAugust 4, 2019 3:48 pm

One of the few bright spots for Democrats in the 2016 election when Josh Gottheimer, a former Clinton White House speechwriter, ousted controversial Republican Rep. Scott Garrett. After seven terms as a congressman, Garrett was under fire comments made about...

Rev. James Biggs, former mayor and congressional candidate, dies at 77

June 1, 2019 12:26 pmJune 1, 2019 5:32 pm

Rev. James H. Biggs, a former mayor of Island Heights who ran for Congress against Rep. Bill Hughes (D-Ocean City) in 1978, died on May 30. He was 77. Biggs was a magnetic 36-year-old Methodist minister and two-term mayor of...