Dancer Tribute: Raj Mukherji

Candidates for the New Jersey legislature are sitting on warchests totaling more than $19.1 million as of the end of last year, with more than half that in the coffers of the ten top fundraisers and Democrats enjoying a significant cash advantage. In the Senate, 22 Democrats have a collective...

In a potential Democratic primary fight between two incumbents, Richard J. Codey (D-Roseland) has a Gottheimeresque fundraising edge over Nia Gill (D-Montclair). Legislative redistricting put the two veteran senators into the 27th district. A former Governor, Codey has $786,729 cash-on-hand after raising $10,849 during the fourth quarter of 2022. Gill...

Six-term State Sen. Fred Madden (D-Washington Township) has $76,974 cash-on-hand after raising just $3,500 in the last quarter of 2022 and $7,000 since the 2021 election. In other parts of the state, lethargic fundraising numbers for an incumbent in a competitive district might signal an intention to retire — the conventional wisdom is that 68-year-old Senate Labor Committee chairman is unlikely to seek re-election to a seventh term — but candidate fundraising in South Jersey is not a requirement of the job.

Telemarketers will have 30 seconds to identify themselves and what they’re selling under a bill sponsored by State Sen. Jon Bramnick (R-Westfield). “New Jerseyans should know who they’re talking to on the phone and what’s being sold to them by telemarketers,” stated Bramnick, who has been trying to pass this law for more than eight years. “My legislation requires more transparency from telemarketers and punishes those who lie and misrepresent information on sales calls. If you’re on the up and up, you should have no problem with this bill if you’re a telemarketer.”

Al Barlas raised a mammoth $112,844 for his bid for the Republican nomination for State Assembly in the 40th legislative district, making the first-time candidate one of the top GOP fundraisers in the state just two months after entering the race. Barlas, the 41-year-old Essex County GOP chairman, has $111,522...

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Is running just 6.4% behind where he was in 2016 when he won 7.4% of the vote in the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary. Christie did not register as the first choice of any likely Republican primary voters in a University of New Hampshire poll released today but garners 1% of the vote as a second choice.

New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin announced an investigation today into failures of Monmouth County’s voting machine vendor, Elections Systems & Software (ES&S), that led to the double counting of votes in the November 2022 general election, the New Jersey Globe has confirmed. ES&S, the largest U.S. manufacturer of...

Four times a year, New Jersey holds special school elections for voters to approve school construction referendums. The Educational Facilities and Construction Financing Act of 2000 allows the state to pick up about 40% of the costs if voters approve the measure. Four municipalities held special school elections on Tuesday:

Following a Politico NJ report yesterday that the state government spent more than half a million dollars of federal Covid relief on SUVs to drive Gov. Phil Murphy and other state officials, State Sen. Michael Testa (R-Vineland) released a statement excoriating the administration’s spending choices. “It’s disturbing that Governor...

The former building and grounds director of the Hillsborough public schools has admitted to paying kickbacks in exchange for fraudulent overtime payments worth over $137,000. Anthony DeLuca pleaded guilty to one count of embezzling, stealing, and fraud on Wednesday and faces ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine, although plea agreements rarely result in maximum sentences.

A majority of New Jerseyans remain concerned about Covid nearly three years after it first ripped through the state – and yet most oppose masking and distancing requirements and have not gotten the bivalent Covid booster, according to a new Monmouth University poll released today. 57% of respondents to...