Scott Garrett Archives - New Jersey Globe

NJ Transit boss shaves thousands off his property tax bill as a sheep farmer

September 16, 2019 12:01 amSeptember 15, 2019 11:33 pm

The Murphy administration official who runs New Jersey Transit receives a huge break on his property taxes because he raises sheep at his Mendham Township home. Kevin Corbett, who earns $281,000-a-year as president and CEO of the state’s beleaguered transit...

Maps: The four House seats Dems flipped in ’18

August 30, 2019 11:13 amAugust 30, 2019 6:07 pm

Just three years ago, Republicans held five congressional seats in New jersey New Jersey, but in 2019, only Christopher Smith R-Hamilton) of the strongly Republican 4th district remains. The GOP lost the 5th district in 2016, when Josh Gottheimer (D-Wyckoff)...

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...

Gottheimer raising money off Pallotta inclusion on NRCC Young Guns list

August 17, 2019 5:50 pmAugust 19, 2019 11:07 am

Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-Wyckoff) is fundraising off of the announcement that Republican Frank Pallotta has been named to the National Republican Congressional Committee’s Young Guns List. “This is not a list you want to be on; trust us,” the Gottheimer campaign...

Eli Nachmany departs White House for Harvard

August 10, 2019 11:22 amAugust 10, 2019 3:38 pm

Here’s Josh Gottheimer’s 2026 Republican opponent. Eli Nachmany, a 23-year-old Closter native, left his White House job yesterday to start Harvard Law School. Nachmany took a leave from New York University to work advance and press Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential...

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,...

Markstein join Republican Jewish Coalition

August 6, 2019 1:01 pmAugust 7, 2019 2:04 pm

Sam Markstein, the political director for Bob Hugin’s 2018 U.S. Senate campaign in New Jersey, has joined the Republican Jewish Coalition as National Political Director. Markstein worked on Kim Guadagno’s 2017 campaign for governor, on Chris Christie’s 2016 campaign for...