Seven things to watch in Newark
Ras Baraka is widely expected to score a big win tonight in his bid for a second term as mayor of Newark. Here are seven things to watch for: 1. Can Baraka top Cory Booker’s 72% win in 2006? Few...
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Webber launches first TV ad
Assemblyman Jay Webber (R-Morris Plains) has released his first TV ad in his bid for Rodney Frelinghuysen’s seat in Congress. “Morning” highlights his conservative views and refers to Ronald Reagan’s classic “Morning in America” ad that ran during the 1984...
Fulop raises $50k for Baraka
The mayors of the state’s two largest cities teamed up today for a fundraising event that reminds the New Jersey political establishment of the alliance between the two Democrats. Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop raised a reported $50,000 at a...
Team DiVincenzo campaigning hard in Roseland
The “Line A” Essex County Democratic organization slate in Roseland – the one backed by County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo in a fight for county committee seats against candidates supported by former Gov. Richard Codey – spent the weekend campaigning at...
Belleville mayor faces 3-way race
The consensus is that three-term Belleville Mayor Raymond Kimble is in trouble. There’s no polling data to back that up, just anecdotal information from a collection of Essex County sources who universally refuse to make a prediction in the May...
Gill backs off threat to Dem legislators
Brendan Gill has walked back comments he made to The (Bergen) Record columnist Charles Stile suggesting that a non-profit group formed to advance Gov. Phil Murphy’s agenda was going to target Democratic legislators with online and television ads. Stile reported...
Garden State Equality endorses Gusciora, O’Donnell & Baraka
The state’s largest LGBT organization has endorsed candidates in the May 8 non-partisan municipal elections. Garden State Equality, which boasts 150,000 statewide members, is backing Assemblyman Reed Gusciora for mayor of Trenton, former Assemblyman Jason O’Donnell for mayor of Bayonne,...