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Christie is draw for Kean Washington fundraiser

July 9, 2019 3:12 pm

Former Gov. Chris Christie is headlining a fundraiser for Tom Kean Jr.’s congressional campaign in Washington later this month. The two men had a troubled relationship during the time Christie was governor and Kean was the Senate minority leader. Christie...

Holman takes Gilmore’s Board of Election seat

May 17, 2019 11:53 amMay 17, 2019 2:22 pm

Newly-elected Ocean County Republican chairman Frank Holman III will take George Gilmore’s seat on the Board of Elections, the New Jersey Globe has learned. Following Holman’s 25-vote victory in a special election on Wednesday, three GOP officials huddled to decide...

Frank Holman pledges to run more women for office in Ocean County

April 27, 2019 3:05 pmApril 28, 2019 7:14 pm

Frank Holman III says he will be a different kind of county chairman if he wins a special election to replace George Gilmore, who resigned Wednesday after 23 years running New Jersey’s most potent Republican county organization. “I’ll be more...

Hirsh Singh will challenge Cory Booker for U.S. Senate

April 24, 2019 4:28 pmApril 25, 2019 1:34 pm

Hirsh Singh will seek the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2020 against incumbent Cory Booker. “Booker has brought nothing to New Jersey,” Singh told the New Jersey Globe. Singh says he is skipping the exploratory phase and filed his...

The Week of Matt Friedman’s Vexation

February 22, 2019 12:06 amFebruary 22, 2019 8:50 am

Winner Losers CORY BOOKER KATHERINE DUPUIS The U.S. Senator from New Jersey locks up his home state in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. The Superior Court Judge, once a municipal chair, doesn’t seem to understand simple state election...

Ocean GOP backs incumbents

February 17, 2019 9:52 am

The Ocean County Republican Organization screening committee voted unanimously on Saturday to renominate incumbents for state and county offices. For the eight State Assembly seats that include part of Ocean County, the GOP screening committee is backing DiAnne Gove (R-Long...

Some districts just send white guys to Trenton

January 25, 2019 7:33 pmJanuary 25, 2019 8:13 pm

When Morris County voters elected Josephine Margetts (R-New Vernon) and Ann Klein (D-Morris Township) to the New Jersey State Assembly in 1971, the county accounted for two-thirds of the total number of women in the lower house. The Morris County-based...