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Arango re-elected Hudson GOP Chairman

June 24, 2025 7:19 pmJune 25, 2025 1:20 pm

Hudson County GOP Chairman Jose Arango was re-elected tonight without opposition to a post he’s held since 2000. Arango, a former assemblyman, is the longest-serving Republican county chairman in the state. He first served in 1989, and again since 2000. ...

How Bob Menendez rebranded himself in a post-Musto Union City and kept Hudson County blue

January 29, 2025 4:20 pm

It’s a story that happens often in New Jersey politics, where cliques and factions sometimes create toxic environments within one party in control of local government, and U.S. Senator Bob Menendez’s political trajectory happened in sort of the same way....

How Bob Menendez rebranded himself in a post-Musto Union City and kept Hudson County blue

May 13, 2024 12:03 amMay 13, 2024 12:49 pm

It’s a story that happens often in New Jersey politics, where cliques and factions sometimes create toxic environments within one party in control of local government, and U.S. Senator Bob Menendez’s political trajectory happened in sort of the same way....

Temporary Supreme Court Justice who was deciding vote on cop killer release got to the bench as part of an old-fashioned political deal

May 16, 2022 12:40 amMay 16, 2022 5:12 pm

When the New Jersey Supreme Court ordered the release of a notorious cop killer last week, the deciding vote was cast by Jose L. Fuentes, a onetime Hudson County political insider with ambitions for high public office, who is on...

Andre Gruber, Middlesex GOP chairman in 1970s, dies at 84

February 21, 2020 4:55 amFebruary 23, 2020 12:13 pm

Editor’s note: the White House briefing memos at the end of this obituary are a must-read for political junkies. Andre Gruber, who served as the Middlesex County Republican Chairman from 1974 to 1978, died on February 18. He was 84....

William J. Hamilton, former Assembly Speaker, dies at 86

October 12, 2019 4:28 pmOctober 13, 2019 3:11 pm

Former Assembly Speaker William J. Hamilton, Jr., a skilled legislator with a reputation for integrity and independence, died on Thursday. He was 86. A product of John A. Lynch, Sr.’s New Brunswick political organization, Hamilton served six years in the...

Bucco would be the 5th sitting Senator to run for Assembly

September 25, 2019 1:29 amSeptember 25, 2019 1:50 am

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 the...