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Kean says he’ll support McCarthy for leader

October 15, 2022 3:04 pm

Asked today whether he plans on supporting House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) if elected to Congress, former State Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean Jr. (R-Westfield) had a simple answer: “Yes.” The answer, in response to a question from News12’s...

Pledging to ‘break the back of inflation,’ Kean rallies with McDaniel in Belvidere

October 15, 2022 2:49 pmOctober 16, 2022 1:28 am

Tom Malinowski caused inflation. Tom Kean Jr. can fix it. That’s the message Kean, the former Republican leader of the State Senate, has been hammering for months against Malinowski, a two-term Democratic representative and New Jersey’s most vulnerable incumbent this cycle....

Malinowski scores astronomical Q3 haul, has nearly massive $2.8 million still in warchest

October 10, 2022 3:46 pmOctober 11, 2022 12:50 am

Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-Ringoes) had a mammoth $1.83 million fundraising haul during the third quarter of 2022 and has a gigantesque $2.78 million cash-on-hand for re-election bid in New Jersey’s 7th district after raising more than $6 million this cycle....

Millburn is a Democratic stronghold, but local race could be competitive

September 23, 2022 9:09 pmSeptember 23, 2022 9:57 pm

The political transformation of Millburn and Short Hills has been among the most remarkable in the state. A generation ago, Republican won the town by a 3-1 margin; like other North Jersey train station town, Democrats frequently win by similar...

Firefighters union switches from Kean to Malinowski in NJ-7

September 15, 2022 2:47 pmSeptember 16, 2022 12:03 am

An influential public employee union that backed Democratic Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-Ringoes) for Congress in 2018 and then Republican Tom Kean, Jr. in 2020 has now flipped back to Malinowski. The New Jersey State Firefighters Mutual Benevolent Association has decided...

New Malinowski ad depicts Kean as a spineless Trump man

September 7, 2022 8:02 amSeptember 7, 2022 1:10 pm

In a ferocious new TV ad, Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-Ringoes) paints his Republican challenger, Tom Kean, Jr., as an empty suit and Donald Trump acolyte. In “Own Words,” Malinowski uses a mailer from Kean’s GOP primary that pointedly endorsed part...

Labor Leader: Joel Jacobson picked a public fight with Frank Sinatra

September 5, 2022 12:15 amSeptember 8, 2022 3:47 pm

One of the great New Jersey fights of the 1970s was between labor leader Joel R. Jacobson (1918-1989) and Frank Sinatra. Sinatra and Dean Martin were playing blackjack before their performance at the Golden Nugget Casino in Atlantic City in...