
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.
Garden State Equality fires new broadside at Dems Smarting over the state Senate's refusal to pass marriage equality and disillusioned at the moment with the Democratic Party majority, Garden State Equality’s 85-member Board of Directors unanimously decided against giving financial contributions to political parties and their affiliated committees. ...
“We will work harder and smarter to protect consumers, to preserve civil rights, to effectively regulate the alcoholic beverage industry, to ensure that the integrity of New Jersey’s casino gaming industry continues, to keep drives, passengers and pedestrians safe on our streets, to assist victims of crimes, and to remember always the importance of juvenile justice on issues affecting the state." -- Attorney General-designate Paula Dow, at her Senate confirmation hearing.
- PolitickerNJ.com, 02/08/10Press releases are submitted by PolitickerNJ users, not by staff. They do not represent the viewpoint of PolitickerNJ.com.
which REPUBLICANS will run
which REPUBLICANS will run against him?
Codey, Bowser or Rice should challenge Joe D...
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....
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
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..
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.