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Democratic Assembly candidate crossed picket line as Verizon replacement worker

October 16, 2019 8:09 pmOctober 17, 2019 9:00 am

A Democratic candidate for State Assembly in the 8th district used social media to boast about crossing a picket line while union employees of the company she worked for were on strike. Gina LaPlaca was a government affairs executive for...

Westampton committee candidate blasted from both sides over blackface photos

October 14, 2019 5:39 pmOctober 14, 2019 9:31 pm

Republicans are calling for a GOP committee candidate to suspend his campaign following the discovery of a series of blackface photos he posted on Facebook in 2009. “What I saw in those photos is nothing short of sickening,” former Westampton...

In a Burlington school referendum, 31% of VBM ballots already returned

September 24, 2019 8:15 pmSeptember 24, 2019 8:23 pm

An early test of New Jersey’s new vote-by-mail law can be seen tonight in five Burlington County municipalities that are in the closely-watched race 8th district State Assembly race. Election officials anticipate that more than one-third of all vote-by-mail ballots...

Comptroller says Wrightstown mayor okay’d under-the-table dumping deal

September 19, 2019 2:45 pmSeptember 19, 2019 2:46 pm

An investigation by the Office of the State Comptroller found Wrightstown Mayor Thomas Harper and Rodman Lucas, operations manager of the Wrightstown Municipal Utilities Authority, entered into an improper waste disposal arrangement that benefited Lucas’s private waste disposal company. The...

Holzapfel, Singer not ready to back Gibbs’ House bid

September 10, 2019 3:41 pmSeptember 10, 2019 4:29 pm

State Sens. James Holzapfel (R-Toms River) and Robert Singer (R-Lakewood) aren’t ready to back former Burlington County Freeholder Kate Gibbs for New Jersey’s 3rd district congressional seat against freshman Rep. Andy Kim (D-Marlton). “I don’t know yet. I have to...

Dems smack Stanfield on 93% NRA rating

September 4, 2019 7:33 pmSeptember 5, 2019 9:25 am

Democrats in the hotly contested 8th district Assembly race want to know how Republican Jean Stanfield earned a 93% rating from the National Rifle Association. “Voters in the 8th District deserve to know exactly how Jean Stanfield endeared herself so...

Dems smack Peters for VBM reform vote

August 29, 2019 1:09 pm

More than 14,000 voters in the 8th legislative district voted by mail in the 2018 mid-term elections – an increase of over 3,300 from the 2016 presidential election. Just 3,438 mail-in votes were cast in the off-off-year 2015 election, the...