Steve Rothman Archives - New Jersey Globe

For primary challengers to incumbent House members, history isn’t on their side

April 20, 2020 5:59 pm

It happens every two years, when candidates like John Caramanna, Dennis Speed and Jeanne Martines emerge as self-proclaimed contenders for the U.S. House of Representatives in primaries against incumbents. With eight of New Jersey’s twelve House incumbents facing challengers in...

Former congressmen still holding on to warchests

February 20, 2020 12:48 pmFebruary 20, 2020 1:39 pm

Six former congressmen from New Jersey have a combined warchest of nearly $900,000, according to reports filed with the federal election commission. And Frank Lautenberg, who has been dead for nearly seven years, has $89,803 remaining in his campaign account....

Spezakis has raised $160k for primary challenge against Pascrell

January 31, 2020 9:06 pmJanuary 31, 2020 9:58 pm

Zina Spezakis, who is challenging 12-term Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-Paterson) from the left in the Democratic primary, has raised $160,358 and as $84,609 remaining in her campaign warchest. Spezakis reported a fundraising haul of $67,438 for the 4th quarter...

Spezakis raises $93k for Pascrell primary challenge

October 14, 2019 12:02 amOctober 15, 2019 12:33 am

Zina Spezakis has raised $92,930 for her challenge to Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-Paterson) in the 2020 Democratic primary. A clean technology investor and environmental activist, Spezakis has loaned $49,476 to her fledgling campaign. She raised $24,734 for the 3rd...

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,...

NJ-5 has 15,849 new Democrats since 2016

August 5, 2019 11:27 amAugust 5, 2019 1:14 pm

New Jersey’s 5th district has added 18,219 new Democrats since Election Day 2016 when Donald Trump carried the district by 4,089 votes (48%-47%) and Democrat Josh Gottheimer (D-Wyckoff) ousted seven-term Rep. Scott Garrett (R-Wantage) by 14,897 votes (51%-47%). In November...

Pascrell has $1.7 million warchest

July 16, 2019 12:19 amJuly 16, 2019 12:18 pm

Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-Paterson) has $1,715,785 cash-on-hand as he prepares to seek re-election to a thirteenth term as the congressman from New Jersey’s 9th district. Pascrell raised $135,923 in the second quarter of 2019 and has brought in $374,420 so...