Fred Snowflack

NEW BRUNSWICK – Dale Caldwell talks often about how his father, the Rev. Dr. Gilbert Haven Caldwell, knew and “marched arm in arm” with Martin Luther King Jr for voting rights. That history should serve Caldwell quite well in his new job – secretary of state in Mikie Sherrill’s administration. Overseeing the election process is one of[...]

Democrat Pulkit Desai apparently has been elected mayor in Parsippany. An updated count gives Desai 9,976 votes to 9,898 for incumbent Republican Jamie Barberio. This stunning development – coming more than a week after the Nov. 4  election – if possible, makes an awful election even worse for Republicans. Parsippany is the largest town in what normally[...]

MORRISTOWN – When Marisa Sweeney got a text from Phil Murphy she thought it may have been a scam. So, she checked the number with some fellow Democrats. Turns out it really was the governor and he was congratulating her on a major political accomplishment – winning an Assembly seat in a mostly Morris County[...]

Mikie Sherrill will resign from Congress “next week.” She said that late Wednesday afternoon in what she called her last speech in the House. The topic was the Senate resolution to reopen the government, which Democrats oppose because it does not extend Obamacare subsidies. Sherrill did not have long to speak, but she deviated from the subject at hand[...]

RANDOLPH – Joe Hathaway, the Republican mayor of this town, launched a run for Congress in the 11th District – Mikie Sherrill’s district – a bit more than a month ago. His plan was simple: Jack Ciattarelli would become governor and Sherrill, presumably, would be a weakened candidate for reelection to the House next fall. But that didn’t[...]

Justin Strickland likes to greet people with an exuberant "howdy." Yeah, he has Texas roots, so that makes sense.

It was just a week ago Friday when John DiMaio was introduced by an optimistic Jack Ciattarelli as the next Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly. This was while Ciattarelli voted in Bridgewater, which is part of DiMaio’s legislative district. At the time, Ciattarelli envisioned Republicans gaining 13 seats in the Assembly and that would make DiMaio Speaker. Of[...]

MILLBURN – Tom Malinowski began with a joke. “You can take Millburn from Malinowski, but you can’t take Malinowski from Millburn.” He said that standing on a chair in a deli surrounded by about 60 or so supporters. Not a bad crowd for a Thursday morning. Malinowski served two terms in the House representing CD-7 a[...]

EAST BRUNSWICK- Dale Caldwell just made his way through supporters at the local Hilton hotel. With periodic cheering in the background as results came in, Caldwell said, “looking good.” Then, as he talked to people on the food line, he said, “a lot of hard work.” It’s early but the crowd already is in a[...]

Something politically historic is afoot in Morris County – A Democrat may win a state Assembly seat. The candidate’s name is Marisa Sweeney and as of Wednesday afternoon, she was in line to grab the second Assembly seat in LD-25 covering 18 towns in Morris and one, West Milfiord, in Passaic. Incumbent Republican Aura Dunn was in first place[...]