Harry Hurley

Atlantic City Councilman Marty Small, who ran unsuccessfully for Mayor in the 2009 Democratic primary, was indicted today on state voter fraud charges, according to radio personality Harry Hurley.

Click here to read Attorney General Anne Milgram's press release on the indictment of Small and 13 campaign workers. 

PolitickerNJ.com will release our 2009 Power List of New Jersey's 100 most politically influential personalities on Tuesday, August 4. The list, first released in March 2000, is an Insiders List that includes policy makers, party leaders, fundraisers, lobbyists, labor unions, businesses, and associations and have assembled the ultimate list of New Jerseyans with clout, with an impact on politics and government in the Garden State -- everyone but elected officials and Judges.  Stay tuned!

In 2008, Atlantic City radio personality Harry Hurley was the Reader's Choice for #100.  In a two-day online poll that attracted nearly 2,900 voters, Hurley defeated Republican State Chairman Tom Wilson by a 35%-15% margin. Public Policy guru Jon Shure finished third with 12%, just narrowly leading Union County Manager George Devanney (12%). None of the other six candidates -- Cape May County GOP Chairman David Von Savage, attorney and Democratic fundraiser Victor Herlinsky, conservative political strategist Rick Shaftan, Burlington County GOP Chairman Mike Warner, and Jersey City political activists Bobby Jackson and Joe Cardwell -- finished in the double digits.

Hurley also won a 2007 Reader's Choice poll.

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Dafiq Rasheed, a nineteen-year-old college student who ran in the June 2 Democratic primary for Atlantic City Council, died Saturday night in an apparent drowning accident in Galloway Township, according to Atlantic radio personality Harry Hurley.  "He was a smart, polite young man with great potential," Hurley said. "I enjoyed our on-air visits together. This is a significant loss."

Atlantic City radio personality Harry Hurley has been named Vice President of Programming and Operations at WIBG 1020 Radio.  He will continue to long-running daily talk radio program, "Hurley in the Morning," from 7AM to 11AM.

In his new job, Hurley reports directly to Rick Brancadora, the owner, President and Chief Executive Officer of WIBG.  Brancadora was a onetime fixture at the statehouse on session days, working as a communications consultant to several legislators.  In the 1980's, using a small, hand-held tape recorder that appeared fairly high-tech at the time, Brancadora would interview legislator clients on legislation up for a vote that day. After accumulating a few interviews, he would find a phone on the Senate or Assembly floor and feed the interview to a small local radio station, getting the legislator some free airtime.

Atlantic County Freeholder Alisa Cooper may run for State Assembly in 2009 against GOP freshmen Vincent Polistina and John Amodeo.

Atlantic County Freeholder Alisa Beth Cooper will seek the Democratic nomination for State Assembly in the second district, according to a report by South Jersey radio personality Harry Hurley.  Cooper was re-elected to a second term as Freeholder last month.  A former Republican, she is the daughter of the late Delores Cooper, who served many years as a Republican Assemblywoman from Atlantic County. TheGOP  incumbents are both freshmen: Vincent Polistina and John Amodeo.  State Sen. James Whelan is opposed to Cooper's nomination, Hurley says.

The PolitickerNJ.com Power List to be released on Thursday

Who should be the 100th person on PolitickerNJ.com’s list of the 100 Most Powerful People in New Jersey Politics? Our readers get to pick. Click here to vote!

The ballot: state Comptroller Matt Boxer, Corzine appointments counsel Michellene Davis, attorney/fundraiser Victor Herlinsky,
Atlantic City radio show host Harry Hurley, Corzine Deputy Chief of Staff Patti McGuire, State Police EPU chief Jim O'Neil, carpenters union staffer Troy Singleton, federal monitor Herb Stern, GOP State Chairman Tom Wilson, and Corzine administration official Adam Zellner.

Harry Hurley wil be #100 on the PoliticsNJ.com Power List 2007 -- the 100 Most Powerful People in New Jersey PoliticsAtlantic City radio show host Harry Hurley will be the 100th person on PoliticsNJ.com's list of the 100 Most Powerful People in New Jersey Politics. The final slot was left to the choice of our readers, and in a two-day online poll that attracted nearly 2,900 voters, Hurley defeated Republican State Chairman Tom Wilson by a 35%-15% margin. Public Policy guru Jon Shure finished third with 12%, just narrowly leading Union County Manager George Devanney (12%). None of the other six candidates -- Cape May County GOP Chairman David Von Savage, attorney and Democratic fundraiser Victor Herlinsky, conservative political strategist Rick Shaftan, Burlington County GOP Chairman Mike Warner, and Jersey City political activists Bobby Jackson and Joe Cardwell -- finished in the double digits.

The Power List will be released today, with names revealed in groups of ten at half-hour intervals, beginning at 10AM.

The PoliticsNJ.com Power List of the 100 Most Powerful People in New Jersey Politics will be released on Thursday.  This year, our readers get to pick the person who gets the final slot -- #100 --  from our last ten candidates.  Vote Tuesday and Wednesday to decide who gets on the Power List -- and who doesn't!

The list of potential challengers to Republican State Senator Bill Gormley continues to grow with the announcement this week that Paul D'Amato, a former GOP Assemblyman and Linwood Mayor -- and once a staunch Gormley ally -- has switched to the Democratic Party. Booeyed by victories in '05 races for State Assembly, Surrogate and Freeholder, Atlantic County Democrats are anxious to mount strong challenges to Gormley and GOP County Executive Dennis Levinson in 2007. D'Amato and newly-elected Assemblyman James Whelan, the former Mayor of Atlantic City who ousted Kirk Conover last year, are at the top of the Senate Democratic recruitment list. Other possible candidates against Gormley and Levinson are Sheriff James McGettigan, County Clerk Michael Garvin, and Alisa Beth Cooper, another former Republican (her mother was longtime GOP Assemblywoman -- and Gormley foe -- Delores Cooper) who unseated a GOP Freeholder last November.

Radio host Harry Hurley says that Kenneth LeFevre is stepping down as the Atlantic County Republican Chairman. The GOP lost an incumbent Assemblyman and Freeholder, as well as the Surrogate's office, which had been under Republican control.