JOSH MARGOLIN

November 4, 2007 - 2:13pm

Katz Fight: Carla vs. Josh

Politics has changed over the last forty years.

On the weekend before the 1967 mid-term legislative elections, New Jersey U.S. Senator Clifford Case, the ranking Minority member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced his opposition to the war in Vietnam at a campaign event in East Paterson (now Elmwood Park.)

But the big story on the weekend before the 2007 election – at least among political insiders – is the fight between CWA President Carla Katz and Star-Ledger reporter Josh Margolin.  (Katz and Margolin are both in the Top Ten on PoliticsNJ.com’s Power List.)
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September 4, 2007 - 8:04am

The Story of the Week: Jon Corzine and Rocco Riccio

If you were away for Labor Day weekend, you missed the Star-Ledger's story on Jon Corzine's latest problem: a $15,000 cash gift to Rocco Riccio, the brother-in-law of CWA President Carla Katz.  The gifts, $10,000 last spring and $5,000 last summer, came despite Corzine's claim that he no longer had financial dealings with his former girlfriend.  The story is bad for Corzine, who seems to have done a poor job convincing people that he's been forthcoming with information relating to his personal finances and how they potentially conflict with his job as Governor.  "The disclosure is likely to stir a new round of questions about how the Democratic governor's love life and fortune have influenced his actions, and about the romantic relationship with Katz that has haunted him as much as any legislative issue or political stance dur ing his short tenure," wrote reporters Josh Margolin and John Martin

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