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Democratic Assembly candidate crossed picket line as Verizon replacement worker

October 16, 2019 8:09 pmOctober 17, 2019 5:02 pm

A Democratic candidate for State Assembly in the 8th district used social media to boast about crossing a picket line while union employees of the company she worked for were on strike. Gina LaPlaca was a government affairs executive for...

LD8 Dems outraise Republican opponents

October 16, 2019 11:48 am

Democrats in the eighth legislative district have outraised their Republican opponents so far this cycle, according to 29-day pre-election reports filed with the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission. A joint committee for Democrats Gina LaPlaca and Mark Natale has...

Westampton committee candidate blasted from both sides over blackface photos

October 14, 2019 5:39 pmOctober 14, 2019 9:31 pm

Republicans are calling for a GOP committee candidate to suspend his campaign following the discovery of a series of blackface photos he posted on Facebook in 2009. “What I saw in those photos is nothing short of sickening,” former Westampton...

LD8 Dems call for rivals to condemn Bramnick over website

October 11, 2019 5:41 pmOctober 11, 2019 5:51 pm

Editor’s Note: This article was updated with comment from Ryan Peters and Jean Stanfield at 5:51 p.m. Democrats in the eighth legislative district are calling on their Republican opponents to condemn Assembly Minority Leader Jon Bramnick over language on his...

NOW NJ PAC skips endorsements for many incumbent Dems

October 7, 2019 12:03 pm

New Jersey National Organization for Women PAC passed over many Democratic incumbents in a list of endorsements issued Monday. The group, which backed 34 Democratic Assembly candidates and one independent, made no endorsements in districts one, two, three, five, eight,...

Peters pushing his own school funding plan

October 2, 2019 10:45 amOctober 2, 2019 11:08 am

Assemblyman Ryan Peters is pushing his own school funding bill in an effort to win back funds Burlington County lost in the school aid formula overhaul Democrats passed last year. “Last year, Trenton made a decision to redistribute funding to...

Environmental group sending organizers into some Assembly races

October 1, 2019 1:16 pmOctober 3, 2019 10:49 am

The New Jersey League of Conservation Voters has dispatched three field organizers from their political action committee to organize ground support for their endorsed State Assembly candidates in seven legislative districts. In two of the districts – both with one...