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Politics, like rust, never sleeps. So just when you think the shouting is over, the whole election cycle starts up again. Most immediately on the agenda will be November school board races in Jersey City, Hoboken, and West New York, along with a ballot initiative in Bayonne that would ask voters to approve an elected …
In a runoff election that may have had candidates on both sides biting their nails for more than an hour after the polls closed on June 10, James Davis upset Mark Smith to become the new mayor of Bayonne. Davis appears to have also swept his whole ticket of candidates in, although the battle between …
“Down here it’s just winners and losers, and don’t get caught on the wrong side of the line,” Bruce Springsteen once sang. But in the primary elections for freeholder in Hudson County, the conflicts were far from that simple. Some of the losers won strategic positions for future races, while others may have come to …
Some supporters of Bayonne mayoral candidate James Davis, who is challenging Mayor Mark Smith in the June 10 runoff, believe the Hudson County Democratic Organization (HCDO) sent out secret messages of support at the May 20 gala in Casino in the Park. The event was billed as a tribute to North Bergen Mayor Nicholas Sacco, …
Tom DeGise announced his run for reelection as county executive last week. This will once more divide the county, forcing members of the Hudson County Democratic Organization to decide between the old guard and up-and-comers, the way they previously had when Jerramiah Healy was challenged by Steven Fulop for mayor of Jersey City. Freeholder Bill …
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You can expect the Bayonne municipal race to get even more heated now that it appears that Mayor Mark Smith and challenger James Davis face a June runoff. While this election is very similar in total number of votes cast to the 2006 election between then-Mayor Joseph Doria and his challenger, Judge Patrick Conaghan, Smith …
Monica Lewinsky is back. If you don’t remember, Lewinsky is the White House aide in a blue dress, who nearly managed to bring down the administration of President Bill Clinton. Just in time to greet a potential presidential candidacy of Bill Clinton’s wife, Hillary Clinton, Lewinsky has decided to tell her story in an article …
Perry Belfiore made it official this week. He will withdraw from the Democratic primary for freeholder in June, and will likely throw his support behind Freeholder Anthony Romano Belfiore’s move will avoid a conflict among what some call “Old Hoboken” and allow Romano to consolidate his resources in an attempt to beat Phil Cohen, who …
Gov. Christopher Christie and U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman appeared in Jersey City on April 17, and it wasn’t to close traffic lanes or to announce the arrest of alleged crooked politicians. Christie and Fishman came to speak at a conference on prisoner reentry that was hosted in part by the city of Jersey City and …
Some years are significant without any of the hoopla. We all know that a presidential election year when two new candidates are vying for a vacated seat will bring significant change. This is also true for gubernatorial races, and to a lesser degree, municipal seats. But some years change happens all at once without a …
Continue reading “A shift of political winds in Hudson County”