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Labor Leader: Raymond Donovan, U.S. Secretary of Labor under Reagan

September 5, 2022 12:06 amSeptember 4, 2022 4:06 pm

Raymond J. Donovan, a New Jersey construction company executive, served as U.S. Secretary of Labor under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1985. Donovan was the co-chairman of the New Jersey Reagan campaign in 1980. He and Reagan met in...

Happy Birthday, Nicholas Brady

April 10, 2022 12:01 amApril 10, 2022 10:57 pm

Nicholas Brady, New Jersey’s oldest-living former United States Senator, will celebrate his 92nd birthday on Monday. Brady served in the U.S. Senate for nearly nine months in 1982, following the resignation of Democrat Harrison Williams. He also served as U.S....

In one of New Jersey’s swingiest towns, a mayoral challenger emerges

April 1, 2022 4:35 pm

New Providence was a solidly Republican town, until it wasn’t. The Union County borough, which is in the state’s upper echelons of both income and educational attainment, used to vote for Republicans up and down the ballot, from staunch conservatives...

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

February 21, 2022 12:16 amFebruary 20, 2022 5:05 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...

LBJ, Nixon swept all 21 New Jersey counties

February 21, 2022 12:11 amFebruary 21, 2022 3:57 pm

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....

The legend of Neil Romano

February 1, 2022 12:39 pmFebruary 2, 2022 10:01 am

Every two years, congressional candidates come forward with promises of mammoth fundraising power. Sometimes, parties get someone like Josh Gottheimer, the Human Fundraising machine. But more typically, it’s just a pretender candidate overstating their ability to raise gobs of money....

Christie: ‘Our party itself is in peril’

September 9, 2021 11:22 pmApril 3, 2022 10:10 am

In a speech tonight at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, former Gov. Chris Christie delivered a strong rebuke of former President Donald Trump and the conspiracy theories that have abounded since the 2020 election, though Christie was careful never to...