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Lora wins third term as Passaic mayor in landslide

May 13, 2025 11:23 pm

Hector Lora was re-elected mayor of the city of Passaic in tonight’s non-partisan municipal election, scoring a third term in a landslide against perennial candidate Diomedes Minaya. Lora defeated Minya with 89% of the vote, 3,494-405. Minaya has run for...

Lora re-elected in landslide

May 11, 2021 9:21 pmMay 12, 2021 1:36 am

Passaic Mayor Hector Lora easily defeated two challengers to win re-election Tuesday, carrying his slate of council candidates to another term. It wasn’t remotely close. Lora won with 3,913 votes, nearly 89% of all those cast. Incumbents Jose Garcia, Terrence...

Former Passaic NAACP president removed after anti-Semitic statements running for mayor

April 22, 2021 4:02 pmApril 22, 2021 8:29 pm

Jeffrey Dye, the former Passaic City NAACP president who was ousted over a series of anti-Semitic and anti-Latino Facebook posts, is running for mayor. Dye, who was fired from a $56,088-a-year post in Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration after the New...