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Ralph Ferrara, ex-GOP operative who narrowly lost Assembly race, dies at 80

March 2, 2021 4:21 pmMarch 2, 2021 4:21 pm

Ralph Ferrara, a onetime Republican campaign staffer who came within 602 votes of winning a New Jersey State Assembly seat in 1973, died on February 27. He was 80. If not for the Watergate wave the decimated Republicans – Democrats...

Mary Dougherty faces probation in plea agreement with prosecutors

February 19, 2021 4:02 pm

Mary Dougherty faces probation after a plea agreement with prosecutors who charged her in December 2019 with accepting a $10,000 cash bribe in her 2018 bid for Morris County Freeholder. Dougherty pleaded guilty to filing a false report with the...

Democratic fight brewing in Red Bank

February 16, 2021 8:55 amFebruary 16, 2021 4:33 pm

An intra-party battle in Red Bank between Democratic Municipal Chairman Ed Zipprich and two Democrats on the Borough Council will trigger a primary fight, with Gov. Phil Murphy already taking sides. Incumbents Kate Triggiano and Hazim Yassin did not seek...

Chatham Township elects new Dem municipal chairman

February 12, 2021 11:48 am

Chatham Township Democrats have picked Philip Ankel as the new municipal chair following the resignation of Anne DeSilva. Ankel ran for township committeeman in 2020 and lost by a narrow 272 votes to Republican Mark Hamilton in a municipality that...

Morris GOP approves organization line

February 6, 2021 5:04 pmFebruary 6, 2021 5:59 pm

Morris County Republicans voted overwhelmingly to establish an organization line for the June 2021 primary election. After weeks of legal battles, county committee members voted 305-143 to end the decades-old system of an open primary and create an organization line....

Court won’t hear former Morris GOP freeholders’ appeal

February 4, 2021 8:11 pm

An Appellate Court judge denied an application submitted Wednesday for permission to file an emergent motion made by two former Morris County freeholders seeking to block a convention the county Republican organization plans to hold Saturday for a vote on...

Former Morris freeholders appeal to block Saturday’s GOP convention

February 4, 2021 6:03 pmFebruary 4, 2021 8:12 pm

Update: Appellate Court Judge Richard Geiger summarily denied the application to file an emergent motion Wednesday evening. Two former Morris County GOP freeholders filed for an emergency appeal in an attempt to block the county’s Republican organization from holding a...