The Winner of the Week is Ashley Kindergan, who is covering the federal corruption trial of former State Sen. Joseph Coniglio (D-Paramus) for The Record and the Star-Ledger. If you haven’t already book marked The Record’s Coniglio Trial blog, http://njmg.typepad.com/coniglio/, do it now. If you read their reports of the trial, there is no real reason to go anywhere else.
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Patrick GillespieThe longtime Senate staffer and Old Bridge Councilman is the new Executive Director of the Senate Democratic Staff. |
Richard CodeyThe Senate President and former Governor lost some of his luster following testimony in the federal corruption trial of ex-State Sen. Joe Coniglio. |
RALPH CAPUTO & CLEOPATRA TUCKERThe freshmen Essex legislators get the organization line in their bids for re-election to the State Assembly. |
DR. ROBET VILLAREThe Gloucester County surgeon may not be eligible to run for Assemblyman, since he voted in Delaware just five months ago. |
Jerramiah HealyThe Mayor of Jersey City has a 41-point lead over Lou Manzo in his bid for re-election, according to his own poll. |
Peggy KarcherThe Princeton Councilwoman loses party support in her bid for re-election. |
Brian HackettThe 21-year-old College of New Jersey junior wins the Middlesex County convention for State Assembly in the 14th district. |
Brian LevineThe Mayor of Frankin and GOP candidate for Governor wins just ten votes, about 3%, in his home county Republican convention. |
Barbara BuonoThe Senate Appropriations Chair had a good week in her audition for Lt. Governor, bashing ex-Gov. Tom Kean's threat to sue the state for cutting funding to the arts. But another Middlesex Senator, Joe Vitale, had a better message. |
Vivian GauntThe former Orange Councilwoman admits to billing the city about $250 for meals she never ate |
John CurleyAfter losing a Monmouth Freeholder race by 346 votes last year, the former Red Bank Councilman will get another shot, winning a GOP convention on Saturday. |
DANIEL VAN PELTPolitickerNJ.com's annual April Fools Day joke was to say that the Ocean County Assemblyman wasn't seeking re-election. The problem for the obscure Van Pelt is that no one seemed to care |
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