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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...

Prijten has missed voting in most elections since naturalization

April 9, 2019 6:56 pmApril 10, 2019 1:44 pm

Republican congressional candidate Reinier Prijten writes on his campaign website that as a teenager growing up in Holland, he “rejected the anti-American chorus that was popular among European elites” and “became a fan of President Ronald Reagan.” He decided at...

Once a candidate for president of Mexico, Concepcion Powell sets her sites on New Jersey Assembly seat

March 10, 2019 2:36 pmMarch 11, 2019 12:13 am

The likely Republican candidate for State Assembly in the 17th district ran for president of Mexico in 2018. Maria Concepcion Powell was one of 40 independent candidates who sought the presidency last year. Now she’s challenging Assemblymen Joseph Egan (D-New...

LBJ, Nixon, Reagan swept all 21 New Jersey counties

February 18, 2019 5:50 amFebruary 18, 2019 5:47 am

Just 22,091 votes separated John F. Kennedy from Richard M. Nixon in the contest for New Jersey’s sixteen electoral votes in the 1960 presidential election. Kennedy won 50% to Nixon’s 49%, but Nixon carried 14 of New Jersey’s 21 counties....

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...

Beat it, kid!

October 30, 2018 2:58 pmOctober 30, 2018 4:45 pm

There more things change, the more they stay the same. One of the classic stories in New Jersey politics was the 1982 race for Congress in New Jersey’s 4th district. It was Ronald Reagan’s mid-term election and Christopher Smith was...

Grossman: Van Drew’s ‘radical left’ trying to ‘Bork” Kavanaugh

October 1, 2018 12:10 am

Seth Grossman calls the attacks on Judge Brett Kavanaugh “lowest thing I’ve seen in politics in my entire life, and I’m from New Jersey.” In an email solicitation for campaign funds on Sunday evening, Grossman said that his Democratic opponent...