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Challenge to county committee election postponement gets 4th judge in 4 days

April 2, 2020 12:42 pmApril 3, 2020 12:31 am

Update: Judge James Savio has set a hearing date of April 7, 2020. A lawsuit challenging a decision by Democratic county chairs in Atlantic and Cape May to postpone county committee elections until next year now has its fourth judge...

New judge in county committee court challenge was also a county chairman

April 1, 2020 3:56 pmApril 2, 2020 11:39 am

A lawsuit challenging the postponement of Democratic county committee elections in Cape May and Atlantic counties just a few days ago already has a new judge. The case was originally assigned to Judge James Pickering, the former Democratic county chairman...

Cape May clerk rejects progressive nominating petitions

April 1, 2020 3:18 pmApril 1, 2020 3:26 pm

A progressive slate of Cape May candidates formed to bracket with Democratic congressional candidate Amy Kennedy has failed to qualify for the June 2 ballot, the county’s top election official said. Cape May County Clerk Rita Marie Fulginiti has rejected...

Progressive slates file in six South Jersey counties

March 31, 2020 7:35 pmApril 1, 2020 11:33 am

Progressives have fielded full slates of candidates for countywide office in six counties with the intention of bracketing with Democratic congressional candidate Amy Kennedy. In five of those counties – Cape May, Cumberland, Burlington, Camden and Gloucester – Brigid Harrison...

Flanagan will bracket with Patterson, Novak

March 30, 2020 6:24 pmMarch 31, 2020 1:23 am

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tricia Flanagan said she plans to bracket with congressional candidates Robert Patterson in the 2nd district and John Novak in the 3rd. Patterson, a former Trump administration official, is challenging Democrat-turned-Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-Dennis)...

Atlantic County Democratic Chairman Michael Suleiman

Progressives sue over delayed Cape May, Atlantic County Committee elections

March 30, 2020 9:23 amMarch 30, 2020 3:43 pm

Progressives are seeking to force two South Jersey Democratic organizations to hold delayed county committee elections this year. NJ Working Families and CD-2 Progressive Democrats filed a brief seeking a judicial order to force Cape May and Atlantic County Democrats...

Cape May Dems extend county committee terms to ’21

March 22, 2020 2:01 pm

County Committee elections for Democrats in Cape May have been postpone until June 2021, county chairman Brendan Sciarra announced today. “The face-to-face interaction of candidates and voters in holding a county election for the nearly 250 committee seats would jeopardize...