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New Jersey FMBA President Ed Donnelly seems like a formidable potential candidate for state Senate
in the 21st District. He’s a powerful guy as both head of one of the state’s big public workers unions and chair of the Police and Firemen’s Retirement System. And it’s another one of those once-safely Republican districts that got a lot friendlier-looking to Democrats in the Trump era.
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The complaint contends that Fisher never filed a 20-day post election report after being re-elected to another four-year term on November 5th, 2019. Her most recent filing is dated October 29th, 2019, according to NJ ELEC’s online database.
In a statement, Cohen indicates that he brought this up during a public session at the beginning of the year and it still hast not been remedied.
“During the Hoboken City Council’s meeting of January 6, 2021, I specifically told Councilwoman Fisher that her most recent ELEC disclosure for Hoboken’s November 5, 2019 City Council election was filed on October 29, 2019,” he explained.
Sayegh says $1,000 campaign donation from censured judge s husband won t impact her case
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PATERSON The husband of embattled Paterson municipal court judge Cecilia Sardina Guzman made a $1,000 contribution to Mayor Andre Sayegh’s campaign fund last October shortly after she was censured by the New Jersey Supreme Court.
Sayegh has yet to take a public position regarding the judge, who state Supreme Court records say presided over cases in Paterson for a year while she was ineligible to practice law in New Jersey.
Sayegh said he has consulted with the city’s chief judge, Abdelmageid Abdelhadi, to determine what he should do after learning on Wednesday about the allegations involving the municipal court judge. The mayor said the political donation from her husband, Nestor Guzman, would have no bearing on how he handles the situation.
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The Hoboken City Council introduced an ordinance that would update the city s pay-to-play laws before the upcoming November election.
The Hoboken City Council has unanimously introduced a first-reading ordinance that aims to tighten the city’s pay-to-play laws.
This comes as the city gears up for its municipal elections in which the position of mayor and three at-large council seats are up for election.
Only Council President Ruben Ramos has filed documents with the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission, creating the “Ramos for Mayor” committee.
Mayor Ravi Bhalla is also expected to run, having more than $100,000 in his election fund, according to his January state filings, although he has not yet formally announced.
New Jersey’s so-called pay-to-play laws tightened the rules for political contributions by those who do, or want to do, business with New Jersey government; the first pay-to-play law took effect in 2005 but it didn’t limit contractor contributions to all Big Six committees until 2008. Those laws have had a significant effect on the bottom […]