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Watson Coleman wins

November 6, 2018 8:16 pmNovember 7, 2018 4:05 am

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman won win reelection and serve a third term in Congress. She defeated Republican Daryl Kipnis, an attorney residing in Franklin Township by 36 points, 68% to 32%. Watson Coleman got 145,274 votes to Kipnis’s 67,389. Watson...

The Carpetbagger

October 18, 2018 10:43 pmOctober 19, 2018 8:57 pm

Since Leonard Lance called Tom Malinowski a carpetbagger in last night’s debate – an unfair allegation, since Malinowski grew up in a town next door to the current boundaries of district – here’s a great story about carpetbagging that comes...

Some Rush Holt Trivia

October 16, 2018 2:37 pm

Just a little trivia about Rush Holt, a Democrat who represented New Jersey’s 12th district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1999 until his retirement in 2015. Holt is celebrating his 70th birthday today. Holt was born in West...

New Jerseys 20 Living ex-Congressmen

October 15, 2018 9:15 amOctober 15, 2018 1:40 pm

Rush Holt is 70 today, the 11th oldest of the nineteen living former Congressmen from New Jersey. The oldest is Cornelius Gallagher, who celebrated his 97th birthday last March. The Bayonne Democrat was first elected to Congress in 1958, making...

Lance’s Twinkle, Twinkle moment

September 27, 2018 9:09 am

This may be Leonard Lance’s Twinkle, Twinkle moment: a recording of him saying “I tend not to believe the charges” in the confines of a Rutgers College Republican Club meeting discussing allegations made by Christine Blasey Ford that U.S. Supreme...