DiVincenzo to launch re-election campaign next month
Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo, left, and Senate Majority Leader Steve Sweeney (D-West Deptford)

DiVincenzo to launch re-election campaign next month

By Max Pizarro | November 17th, 2009 - 10:44am
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Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo plans to formally kick-off his bid for a third term on Dec. 11th.

Over the past few days in particular, sources say the county executive has made the rounds and confirmed considerable support toward his re-election.

Although no one has emerged as a serious challenger to the popular county exec, there are hold-outs, notably Senate President Richard Codey (D-Roseland), East Orange Mayor Robert Bowser, and state Sen. Ronald L. Rice (D-Newark), who all believed DiVincenzo helped engineer Codey's collapse from his power projection platform as head of the state senate.

In his defense, DiVincenzo maintained that Codey was clearly wounded following the caucus reorganization vote after the 2007 elections.

When Sen. Steve Sweeney (D-West Deptford) defeated the Codey-backed Sen. Paul Sarlo (D-Wood-Ridge) for senate majority leader, DiVincenzo said he read that as a sign that the Essex County -based Codey couldn't summon the votes to suppress Sweeney's upward mobility.

He began orchestrating a contingency plan that would maintain hegemony for North Jersey - and specifically the Newark North Ward organization that is DiVincenzo's political origin.

 

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which REPUBLICANS will run

Submitted by reagan conservative on November 17, 2009 - 12:52pm.

which REPUBLICANS will run against him?

Codey, Bowser or Rice should challenge Joe D...

Submitted by Thomas Longhorn on November 17, 2009 - 1:07pm.

Codey, Bowser or Rice should challenge Joe D or else there will be nobody left to stand up against George Norcross, Steve Adubato & Ray Lesniak .

Reagan....

Submitted by wwhipple on November 17, 2009 - 1:20pm.

Unfortunately, probably another token republican put their my "chairman" otoole under orders to not really run or say anything bad about joe d.

forget O'Toole

Submitted by The Centrist on November 17, 2009 - 3:44pm.

O'Toole won't take that bait. He's too smart. He'll bide his time until 2014.

DiVincenzo's only concern is whether Codey looks for a Democratic surrogate to exact revenge.

Never a dull moment in Essex Democratic politics.

When theres no reason to change..

Submitted by SewarenScoop on November 17, 2009 - 7:20pm.

why change? Joe D, like Freeholders James and Duffy in Passaic, has been fiscally prudent and actually provided services to county residents. Plus he can work well with the Governor.

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