Gordon breaks the Curse of the 38th
Bob Gordon has broken the Curse of the 38th. Since the Bergen County-based legislative district was created, every State Senator has eventually failed to win re-election to a seat that has been...
View ArticleAdeline Goldsholl, former Assembly candidate, dies
Former Saddle Brook Democratic Municipal Chair Adeline Epifano Goldsholl, who ran for the New Jersey State Assembly in 1983, passed away on November 24. She was 90. Goldsholl ran in the politically...
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Bucco would be the 5th sitting Senator to run for Assembly
Anthony Bucco would not be the first sitting State Senator to seek a seat in the New Jersey State Assembly, but he is the first to run with no intention of keeping the job. Some Senators have gone to...
View ArticleN.J. Supreme Court: The Kean Court
Brendan Byrne’s Supreme Court makeover — a Chief Justice and three younger than usual Associate Justices — plus William Cahill’s pick of 49-year-old Robert Clifford — meant that Gov. Thomas Kean would...
View ArticleThe Curse of the 38th is now dead
There used to be something called the Curse of the 38th, a reference to six consecutive senators from the Bergen County district who found themselves tossed from the State Senate against their will....
View ArticlePaul Contillo, maverick former senator and assemblyman, dies at 94
Paul J. Contillo, an impeccably honest and sometimes stubborn Bergen County Democrat who championed local government ethics laws and campaign finance reform and sponsored New Jersey’s first mandatory...
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