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Grand jury indicts Mendez, Jackson on voter fraud charges

March 3, 2021 4:05 pm

A state grand jury indicted two Paterson Councilmen on election fraud charges last month, Attorney General Gurbir Grewal announced Wednesday. Councilmen Alex Mendez and Michael Jackson were charged with election fraud, mail-in ballot fraud, unauthorized possession of ballots, tampering with...

Murphy demurs on Hudson tradition that allows mayors to make legislative picks

March 3, 2021 3:46 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy demurred on a long-standing that allows the mayor of Bayonne to pick one of the 31st legislative district’s candidates as Mayor Jimmy Davis prepares to invoke it for a seat held by Assembly Minority Whip Nicholas Chiaravalloti....

Murphy, vaguely aware of Soriano-Taveras, has no specific reaction

March 3, 2021 3:08 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy said he was only vaguely aware of accusations of anti-Semitism leveled against a Democratic Assembly candidate who call for a boycott of some Jewish businesses in Teaneck. “I don’t know the candidate in the 37th,” Murphy said...

More than three years later, racist flyers in Edison, Hoboken remain cold cases

March 3, 2021 2:35 pmMarch 3, 2021 5:05 pm

There are two cold cases Attorney General Gurbir Grewal is having trouble solving, even though they are inextricably linked. Both took place in during the final days of the November 2017 campaign and involved racist flyers that took aim at...

Former Teaneck councilman vouches for Soriano-Taveras, says he was at rally with her

March 3, 2021 1:12 pm

Former Teaneck Councilman Alan Sohn, an Orthodox Jew who serves on the Democratic County Committee, is defending 37th district Assembly candidate Alexandra Soriano-Taveras from criticism that she called for a boycott of Jewish businesses at a rally last July. “Alexandra...

Raisch will run for Monmouth Surrogate

March 3, 2021 8:58 am

Monmouth County Republicans have picked Maureen Raisch, a top aide to Middletown local officials, as their candidate for Monmouth County Surrogate, according to a report on More Monmouth Musings. The 59-year-old Raisch has spent the last 20 years as the...

Boggiano gets opponent in Jersey City

March 3, 2021 8:37 am

Kevin Bing, the president of the Journal Square Community Association, will challenge incumbent Richard Boggiano for the Ward C City Council seat in the November non-partisan municipal election. Boggiano., a colorful, sometimes controversial two-term councilman, is running on a slate...