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Source: law enforcement probing Paterson VBM ballots

May 11, 2020 6:14 pmMay 11, 2020 6:15 pm

Federal and state law enforcement are investigating allegations of voter fraud in tomorrow’s Paterson City Council election, with hundreds of vote-by-mail ballots being collected by the U.S. Postal Service from single mailboxes in Haledon and South Paterson, the New Jersey...

Slew of candidates seek Paterson council seats

May 6, 2020 2:25 pmMay 6, 2020 10:18 pm

All but one of the six Paterson Council incumbents seeking re-election this year face multiple challengers in their bids for another term. Councilman Michael Jackson faces challenges from Mosleh Uddin and Nakima Redmon in a low-dollar race for the first...

Top Murphy aide watched Dye bash Jews, call Schaer a ‘slave master’

August 23, 2019 1:57 pmJuly 31, 2024 9:13 pm

A top member of Gov. Phil Murphy’s staff attended a March 2017 meeting of the Passaic NAACP when Jeffrey Dye launched an attack on Jews and Assemblyman Gary Schaer (D-Passaic). Rev. Derrick Green was serving as African American outreach director...

Sayegh elected mayor of Paterson in huge win

May 9, 2018 4:25 amMay 10, 2018 12:21 pm

Andre Sayegh won a lopsided victory to become the next mayor of Paterson, winning the office on his third try with 41% of the vote in a six-candidate field. Sayegh, a 44-year-old councilman, becomes Paterson’s first Arab-American mayor in a...

Prosecutor asked to investigate Paterson mailer

May 7, 2018 8:22 amMay 7, 2018 2:18 pm

The head of a progressive advocacy group is expected to ask the Passaic County Prosecutor to investigate how an unauthorized mailing showed up in the mailboxes of some Paterson residents. The Progressive Values Committee is supporting Andre Sayegh for mayor...

Hispanic group endorses Sayegh

April 4, 2018 11:37 amApril 4, 2018 1:33 pm

A Paterson Hispanic organization announced it was throwing its weight behind city councilman Andre Sayegh in the city’s upcoming mayoral race. Hispanos Unidos con Sayegh (The Hispanic Committee for Sayegh), a 300-member organization, said it was organizing voters across the...