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County-backed candidates sweep in edison

June 5, 2019 12:26 am

The party-backed slate of Democratic council candidates in Edison roundly defeated their challengers Tuesday. Councilmen Ajay Patil, Joseph Coyle and their running mates, Richard Brescher and Joyce Ship-Freeman won the Democratic nod over Councilman Michael Lombardi, Councilman Leonard Sendelsky, Nimisha...

Azcona-Barber wins Dem Middlesex freeholder nod

June 4, 2019 8:50 pm

Middlesex County Freeholders Charles Kenny and Kenneth Armwood and Claribel Azcona-Barber, the county pick to replace retiring freeholder Blanquita Valenti, have won their primary, beating out challengers Robert Diehl, Rajesh Patel, and Kwong Yiu Chan. The victors are expected to...

Kennedy, Carter win in 22nd district

June 4, 2019 8:15 pmJune 3, 2019 11:28 pm

The New Jersey Globe is calling the Democratic primary for State Assembly in the 22nd district for incumbents James Kennedy (D-Rahway) and Linda Carter (D-Plainfield). They have defeated their primary opponents, Carlos Rivas and Mark Lighten. Rivas and Lighten are...

County-backed candidates in Edison score 2-1 wins

June 4, 2019 5:00 pmJune 4, 2019 11:15 pm

The party-backed slate of Democratic council candidates roundly defeated their challengers Tuesday. Councilmen Ajay Patil, Joseph Coyle and their running mates, Richard Brescher and Joyce Ship-Freeman won the Democratic nod over Councilman Michael Lombardi, Councilman Leonard Sendelsky, Nimisha Shulka and...

Advocacy group wants Asian communities taken into account in redistricting

May 23, 2019 3:34 pmMay 24, 2019 10:11 am

Jersey Promise, an Asian American advocacy group, is recommending that the state take into account communities of interest when drafting legislative district lines in 2021 to increase Asian-American representation in Trenton. “To increase both substantive and descriptive representation of the...

Middlesex-Monmouth alliance in spotlight with joint fundraiser tonight

May 9, 2019 3:31 pm

The tight relationship between Democrats in Middlesex and Monmouth counties – something that likely impacts the race for Democratic state chairman later this year – will be on display tonight at a joint fundraiser to benefit the re-election campaign of...

Labor group honors Peg Schaffer

April 28, 2019 8:22 pm

Democratic state vice chair Peg Schaffer received the Hubert H. Humphrey Friend of Labor award from the Middlesex-Somerset AFL-CIO labor council. Wayne Martiak, the business representative for IBEW 456, said that Schaffer “has for years stood alongside labor, fighting for...