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Barlas to lead GOP legislative redistricting; names emerge for Democratic seats

April 2, 2020 9:00 amApril 2, 2020 9:26 am

GOP State Chairman Doug Steinhardt has tapped Al Barlas to serve as the Republican chairman for legislative redistricting. Steinhardt named Barlas as one of five Republican commissioners on the Legislative Reapportionment Commission that will draw new Senate and Assembly districts...

Malinowski files for second term, Kean faces two GOP challengers

March 30, 2020 6:15 pmMarch 31, 2020 3:00 am

Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-Rocky Hill) filed seeking a second term in Congress Monday. The freshman submitted 4,036 signatures and has organizational lines in each of the district’s six counties. Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean filed his petitions with 1,103 signatures....

Sean Spicer to virtually stump for Kean

March 30, 2020 3:12 pmMarch 30, 2020 3:33 pm

Senate Minority Leader Thomas Kean, Jr. (R-Westfield) will hold a virtual roundtable with former White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Wednesday. Kean is seeking the Republican nomination for Congress in New Jersey’s 7th district, where freshman Rep. Tom Malinowski...

Most New Jersey incumbents favored for re-election, race watcher says

March 27, 2020 11:42 amMarch 28, 2020 12:58 am

One of the country’s leading race watchers thinks most of New Jersey’s first-term congress members are relatively safe in their seats amidst a public health crisis that has drastically shifted how campaigns are being run. Dave Wasserman, the House editor...

Franny McManimon, former state senator, dies at 93

March 26, 2020 9:41 pmMarch 27, 2020 1:39 pm

Former State Sen. Francis J. McManimon, an enormously affable, cigar-chomping Mercer County Democrat who served in the New Jersey Legislature for 20 years, passed away today. He was 93. McManimon served as superintendent of the Hamilton Township Department of Parks...

Biden files for New Jersey primary

March 26, 2020 4:41 pmMarch 26, 2020 4:58 pm

Joe Biden filed petitions to run in the New Jersey Democratic presidential primary today and so far, is unopposed in a contest for the state’s 146 delegates. The filing deadline is 4 PM on March 30. President Donald Trump has...

Five more House candidates file petitions

March 23, 2020 3:15 pmMarch 24, 2020 9:00 am

Five more candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives filed their petitions, bringing the total officially running in the June 2 primary to 12. Former public school teacher Amy Kennedy is the first to file in a hotly-contested Democratic primary...