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Castner named partner at Connell Foley

January 27, 2020 12:16 pmJanuary 27, 2020 1:55 pm

Bill Castner, a former chief counsel to Gov. Jon Corzine and the architect of Gov. Phil Murphy’s gun safety agenda, is joining one of the state’s top law firms. ROI-NJ first reported today that Castner will become a partner at...

Labor Leader: Paul J. Krebs, last president of NJ CIO served one-term in Congress

September 2, 2019 1:01 amSeptember 2, 2019 1:51 am

The last New Jersey Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey was Paul Krebs (1912-1996), labor leader and one-term congressman from Livingston. His story involves one of the great New Jersey labor union feuds. The account starts...

Mission Impossible: The search for a GOP Senate candidate vs. Booker

November 12, 2018 12:38 pmNovember 13, 2018 11:24 am

Republicans will have a nearly impossible time recruiting a candidate to run against U.S. Senator Cory Booker in 2020. New Jerseyans just re-elected a senator with upside-down approvals of 36%-52%. Booker’s approvals are at 58%-37%. Their 2018 candidate, Bob Hugin...

The story of Ed Patten

June 25, 2018 5:10 amDecember 27, 2021 1:55 pm

There was a time when Perth Amboy was the epicenter of power in Middlesex County politics and the hometown of Edward Patten, one of the state’s most colorful and influential politicians for nearly fifty years. The gregarious, boisterous, joke-telling Patten...

A great NJ labor union feud and the last Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race

April 22, 2018 2:51 pmApril 23, 2018 11:36 pm

The last New Jersey Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey was Paul Krebs, labor leader and one-term congressman from Livingston. His story involves one of the great New Jersey labor union feuds. The account starts in...