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In Atlantic City, Thomas-Fields will bracket with Hamm

May 27, 2020 9:06 am

Atlantic City Democratic mayoral candidate Pamela Thomas-Fields will bracket with U.S. Senate candidate Lawrence Hamm in the July 7 mostly all vote-by-mail Democratic primary. The incumbent, Marty Small, is on Atlantic County Democratic organization line in the primary. Thomas-Fields has...

Atlantic Democrats want casinos open by July 4

May 27, 2020 8:51 am

Atlantic County Democratic Chairman Michael Suleiman is asking Gov. Phil Murphy to come up with a plan to safely reopen Atlantic City casinos by the July 4th weekend. Murphy closed casinos on March 16 to slow the spread of the...

Coursey endorses Small for Atlantic City mayor

May 24, 2020 5:38 pm

Atlantic County Freeholder Ernest Coursey has endorsed Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small in the July 7 Democratic primary. “As you know, this is a very difficult and challenging time,” Coursey said. “We need a mayor who fights for what’s right. ...

Tucker backs Thomas-Fields for mayor

May 20, 2020 11:08 am

Assemblywoman Cleopatra Tucker (D-Newark) endorsed Pamela Thomas-Fields’s bid for Atlantic City mayor Wednesday. “I believe with her education, knowledge and experience, working directly with the city, she’ll bring much needed transformation to the community,” Tucker said. “Now, more than ever,...

Atlantic County Democratic Chairman Michael Suleiman

Suleiman urges USPS to deliver ballots on time

May 19, 2020 2:42 pm

Atlantic County Democratic Chairman Michael Suleiman on Tuesday urged the U.S. Postal Service to make sure the county’s primary voters get their mail-in ballots delivered on time. “As someone who has voted by mail for the past ten years, it...

Highlights of Tuesdays’ all-VBM elections

May 13, 2020 1:55 am

Several key contests in New Jersey’s first election conducted entirely through vote-by-mail ballots remain undecided, including council races in Paterson and Irvington where allegations of tampering have delayed counts. The May 12 election included a referendum to change the form...

Ventnor incumbents win unopposed

May 12, 2020 11:08 pm

Commissioners in Ventnor were elected without contest Thursday. Mayor Beth Holtzman was the top vote-getter with 1,057 votes. Commissioner Tim Kriebel finished second with 979, and Commissioner Lance Landgraf had 968 ballots cast in his name.