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Neibart will seek Bucco Assembly seat

November 13, 2019 8:18 pm

Mendham Township Deputy Mayor Sarah Neibart will seek the 25th district State Assembly seat Anthony R. Bucco vacated in October when he moved up to the State Senate. Republican County Committee members have called a special election convention for November...

GOP must hold two conventions to fill separate Bucco Assembly vacancies

November 13, 2019 5:19 pmNovember 13, 2019 8:02 pm

Republicans will need to hold two separate special election conventions to replace Anthony R. Bucco (R-Boonton) in the New Jersey State Assembly and the expectation is that his successor will need to run in four elections over the next year....

Race for Bucco’s seat could get crowded

November 9, 2019 10:58 pmNovember 11, 2019 10:56 am

The field of candidates to fill the remaining seven weeks of Anthony M. Bucco’s term in the State Assembly appears to be growing in advance of the November 14 filing deadline. Bucco resigned from the Assembly on October 24 after...

Morris GOP relic tries to hold on

November 8, 2019 9:48 amNovember 8, 2019 2:28 pm

Peter V. Mancuso has been a fixture in Morris County politics since he started out protesting the state’s plans to extend Route 24 to Route 287 in the 1970’s. Now one of the last surviving members of the John Dorsey/Tony...

Corrado is new Senate Minority Conference Leader

November 7, 2019 3:09 pmNovember 7, 2019 3:14 pm

State Sen. Kristin Corrado (R-Totowa) will serve as the new Senate Minority Conference Leader, a post held by Anthony R. Bucco prior to his death in January. The pick was made by Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean, who was unanimously...

Bucco, Bergen win in LD25

November 5, 2019 10:50 pmNovember 6, 2019 5:36 am

State Sen. Anthony Bucco and Denville Councilman Brian Bergen won the 25th district’s Assembly seats Tuesday, beating out challenges from Democrats Lisa Bhimani and Darcy Draeger. Bucco finished first with 26,848 votes, followed by Bergen with 25,552. Bhimani finished third...

The time the media took down a congressman from Boonton

November 1, 2019 12:28 pmNovember 1, 2019 12:38 pm

If the Daily Record hadn’t died before Tony Bucco did, the race for State Assembly in the 25th district could be entirely different. In the old days, when daily newspapers provided intensive local news coverage, politicians like Anthony M. Bucco...