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Calabrese wants Dye gone as Passaic NAACP president

August 29, 2019 2:43 pm

Assemblyman Clinton Calabrese (D-Cliffside Park) became the sixth legislator who represents parts of Passaic County to call for Jeffrey Dye to resign his post as Passaic NAACP President. “Mr. Dye’s long history of anti-Semitic and anti-Latino social media posts, prior...

NAACP President to Reporter: ‘I don’t talk to fucking Jews’

August 27, 2019 5:45 pmAugust 29, 2019 10:10 am

Jeffrey Dye declined to say if he plans to resign his post as President of the Passaic NAACP after several top Democrats urged him to move on. “I don’t talk to fucking Jews,” Dye told the New Jersey Globe during...

Dye should resign NAACP post, Democrats say

August 26, 2019 4:28 pmAugust 27, 2019 11:19 am

While thenNew Jersey NAACP is expected to decide this week whether Jeffrey Dye will be removed from his post as president of the Passaic chapter, several top political leaders think he ought to step down. “All the years I’ve represented...

Judge Thomas Rumana, former Wayne council president and father of ex-assemblyman, dies at 95

August 26, 2019 11:31 amAugust 26, 2019 4:29 pm

Retired Superior Court Judge Thomas R. Rumana, a former Wayne Council President and the father of former Assemblyman Scott Rumana, died on Saturday. He was 95. He became a candidate for the Wayne Township Council in 1969 when local Republicans...

More details of Jeffrey Dye ‘past offenses’

August 25, 2019 10:35 pm

Embattled Passaic NAACP President Jeffrey Dye had just been chosen to head the Local Residents Work Force when he was arrested in 1998 for threatening his brother with a knife. Issues related what the Murphy administration called Dye’s “past offenses”...

Jeffrey Dye says ‘Jewish media hit team’ to turn people against him

August 24, 2019 3:22 pm

Ousted Murphy administration official Jeffrey Dye has accused Assemblyman Gary Schaer and Passaic Mayor Hector Lora of hiring a “Jewish media hit team” and says that the two Democratic officials tried to lynch and hag him. “They start with the...

Jeffrey Dye slams Jewish media, says he still supports Murphy

August 23, 2019 10:50 amAugust 23, 2019 7:07 pm

Former Murphy administration official Jeffrey Dye, fired from his job on Tuesday after his history of anti-Semitic and anti-Latino comments on social media surfaced, has continued his diatribe against Jews. Dye, who remains as president of the Passaic NAACP, posted...