Poll shows Booker still ahead, Lonegan gaining
New Quinnipiac University poll shows Booker still ahead, but Lonegan gaining Democrat Cory Booker still has a “comfortable lead” over Republican Steve Lonegan among likely voters in the race for U.S....
View ArticleMorning news: Christie and Buono visit major cities, Booker discussing...
Governor Christie is in Camden this morning to meet with the new state-appointed superintendent and chat with students, meanwhile his Democratic challenger has plans to visit another of the state’s...
View ArticleMenendez aide moving to firm with close Christie ties
A veteran New Jersey political operative who served as Sen. Robert Menendez’s campaign manager last year and ran his state office since 2007 is moving to a national consulting firm with close ties to...
View ArticlePallone expecting Lautenberg widow at Bergen event next week
Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s family has already put out a statement endorsing Rep. Frank Pallone’s bid to fill his seat, and the senator’s son wrote an email that was distributed by Pallone’s campaign...
View ArticleMorning news: Court requires warrant for cellphone data
New Jersey’s Supreme Court unanimously declared yesterday that police in New Jersey must first obtain a search warrant before using cellphone data to track a suspect. The decision is one of the first...
View ArticleReid says Lautenberg called from ‘deathbed’ to vote
Either Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was exaggerating today, or Sen. Frank Lautenberg was much sicker than he revealed on May 16 when he arrived at a committee hearing in a wheelchair so Democrats...
View ArticleLautenberg family backs Pallone
The family of the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg endorsed Rep. Frank Pallone today in the special election to fill the remainder of Lautenberg’s term. In what could be read as a veiled reference to...
View ArticleBooker ad says he’ll face Washington problems
In his first campaign ad, Senate candidate Cory Booker touts is record in Newark and promises to confront problems that Washington “ducks,” while providing no specifics about which problems and how...
View ArticleSouth Jersey Democrats back Booker, Pallone snags Middlesex, Holt releases video
Democrats from New Jersey’s seven southern counties backed Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s U.S. Senate run. Democrats from the state’s seven southern counties threw their support behind Cory Booker’s U.S....
View ArticlePanel approves bill moving general election to October, coinciding with U.S....
Governor Christie’s decision to fill New Jersey’s U.S. Senate seat through an October special election is “bad for democracy,” the Democrat running against him said today. She and other Democrats on a...
View ArticleMorning News: Four Dems vying for Senate nomination
Two Republicans and four Democrats, including Newark Mayor Cory Booker, have filed papers to seek their party’s nomination to run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Frank Lautenberg last...
View ArticleChristie defends special election to fill Lautenberg’s vacant U.S. Senate seat
Governor Christie appointed Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa to fill Frank Lautenberg’s U.S. Senate seat until a replacement is elected in October. (CHRIS PEDOTA/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER) Governor Christie...
View ArticlePallone officially joins U.S. Senate race
Clutching a box of nominating petitions in his arms, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, D-Monmouth, officially joined the contest today to fill the U.S. Senate seat of the late Frank Lautenberg. Pallone, a...
View ArticleMorning news: Senator Chiesa to start on Monday
Governor Christie named New Jersey’s attorney general – one of his closest friends and advisers – to temporarily fill Frank Lautenberg’s vacant Senate seat. But Christie said the attorney general,...
View ArticleChiesa to serve fourth shortest U.S. Senate term in New Jersey history
N.J. Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa speaking to the media after Governor Christie named him to fill Frank Lautenberg’s Senate seat. (CHRIS PEDOTA/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER) With Governor Christie’s pick for...
View ArticleMorning news: After Lautenberg’s funeral, potential Senate candidates...
Potential U.S. Senate candidates only have a few days to collect the signatures they need to run for the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s seat. But questions continued yesterday about Governor Christie’s...
View ArticleMorning news: Christie sets special election
Governor Christie yesterday ordered a special election for October to replace the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg. Christie said he will appoint a senator to fill the seat in the meantime. His decision...
View ArticleBarchi comes before lawmakers
Rutgers University president Robert L. Barchi and other higher education officials will be in Trenton this morning for budget hearings. Expect questions on the upcoming higher education reorganization...
View ArticleMorning news: Rutgers basketball scandal stays in spotlight
Now that Rutgers AD Pernetti is gone, university President Robert Barchi is likely to stay, The Record’s Charles Stile wrote yesterday. Barchi was brought on last year in large part to guide it...
View ArticleMorning News: Assembly Budget Committee on the road today
It looks like the Trenton press corps will be doing a lot of traveling today. Governor Christie has a campaign announcement at Lakewood this afternoon, and the Assembly Budget Committee is taking...
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