Thomas Giblin Archives - New Jersey Globe

Legislative Correspondents Club cancels May dinner, citing Covid outbreak at DC event

April 18, 2022 1:05 pm

The New Jersey Legislative Correspondents Club Show set for May 4 has been cancelled. The group cited the recent Gridiron Dinner in Washington as a superspreader event and sluggish ticket sales. “We have been looking forward to holding our first...

The new legislative map won’t immediately do much to increase minority representation

February 25, 2022 4:28 pm

Nearly three weeks ago, the two partisan delegations on the New Jersey Legislative Apportionment Commission released their first proposals for the state’s new legislative map. Each one modestly obeyed the standards laid out by commission tiebreaker Philip Carchman, but both...

McKeon dips his toe into Senate race with two Democratic incumbents

February 24, 2022 8:05 pm

Assemblyman John McKeon (D-West Orange) is testing the waters for a possible State Senate bid in the newly-drawn 27th district which already has two incumbent senators, Richard Codey (D-Roseland) and Nia Gill (D-Montclair). Members of McKeon’s political team have been...

These incumbents kept their legislative districts. They might not survive 2023 anyways.

February 22, 2022 1:11 pmFebruary 22, 2022 4:09 pm

New Jersey’s new legislative map, adopted last week following a first-of-its-kind bipartisan process, creates two possible showdowns between giants: State Sen. Nia Gill (D-Montclair) versus former Gov. Richard Codey (D-Roseland) in the 27th district, and State Sens. Nicholas Sacco (D-North...

The great Essex County shuffle

February 18, 2022 12:55 pmFebruary 19, 2022 12:09 am

For the most part, the deal legislative map that will almost certainly be approved later today is a map that preserves the status quo. Republicans get some favorable changes in South Jersey and Democrats keep Central Jersey drawn in a...

We’ve got the map. Here’s what the new legislative districts will look like

February 18, 2022 6:58 amFebruary 19, 2022 12:08 am

The Apportionment Commission is set to meet at 2 PM on Friday to formally approve a legislative redistricting deal map approved by Democrats and Republicans on Thursday and tentatively supported by the court-appointed 11th member, former Judge Philip Carchman. The...

Who were the holdouts on the Freedom of Reproductive Choice Act?

January 18, 2022 6:00 amJanuary 17, 2022 11:15 pm

When the New Jersey legislature passed the Freedom of Reproductive Choice Act last week, codifying abortion into state law, it did so largely on partisan lines: Democrats were eager to support the bill while Republicans lined up against it. But...