FDU poll shows Booker leading Lautenberg in primary contest
A poll released Thursday shows Newark Mayor Cory Booker with a substantial lead over U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg in a potential primary fight. Forty-two percent of Democratic and Democratic-leaning...
View ArticleBooker creates campaign committee to explore U.S. Senate run
After announcing his intentions last month, Newark Mayor Cory Booker has formally filed paperwork to establish a campaign committee as he considers running for U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s seat in...
View ArticleChristie leads opponents in fundraising, receives endorsement of Port...
Governor Christie has a commanding fundraising lead over his best-known Democratic rival, pulling in more than $2 million last year from sources all over the country, including the owner of the Tampa...
View ArticlePoll: Christie approval rating remains high, Booker would top Lautenberg in...
Governor Christie, shown delivering the State of the State address earlier this month, has a 74 percent approval rating according to the latest Quinnipiac Poll. Governor Christie is still enjoying a...
View ArticleBooker leads potential opponents in Senate race, poll shows
Newark Mayor Cory Booker has a commanding lead over likely opponents in next year’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, according to a poll released this afternoon. The survey, by PowerPAC.org, is the...
View ArticlePoll: Most New Jerseyans haven’t decided if Menendez involved in wrongdoing
Two-thirds of voters say they have heard about U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez’s trips to the Dominican Republic on a donor’s plane, according to a new Monmouth University poll. Only 24 percent think the...
View ArticleLautenberg announces he will retire at end of term
U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg will not seek another term, clearing the field for Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who announced his interest in the seat last year. Lautenberg, a Cliffside Park Democrat, said in...
View ArticleLautenberg to retire; minimum wage hike goes to voters
Frank Lautenberg, New Jersey’s senior senator, announced he won’t be seeking a sixth term in 2014. He was facing a probable Democratic primary challenge from popular Newark Mayor Cory Booker. Columnist...
View ArticleLautenberg expected back in DC for votes
Sen. Frank Lautenberg is “feeling better” and expects to be back in Washington later this week, but not tonight, for votes on the 2014 budget, a spokesman said. Lautenberg, 89, has missed all votes in...
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...
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 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: 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 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 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: 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 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 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 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 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...
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