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1 day ago | 
insidernj.com | Max Pizarro
That was what the source said from atop a bar stool this week. The information must be handled gingerly, of course, because Hudson becomes obsessed with Hudson with even the mere suggestion of a contest, but in this case, the drama transcends the county, with gubernatorial repercussions. The source of the intrigue boils down to Steve Fulop, the mayor of Jersey City and a candidate for governor in the Democratic Primary.
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1 day ago | 
insidernj.com | Max Pizarro
SOUTH BOUND BROOK - In this hardscrabble river town, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka this afternoon threw on an apron and moved among the tables of this local diner, taking orders and serving workers and labor organizers. "Coke or Sprite?" he asked. "Sprite is popular here," Baraka deadpanned. A moment later - "What kind of dressing?"Baraka wrote down the orders and moved to the next table.
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2 days ago | 
insidernj.com | Max Pizarro
A couple of insiders sat in a bar on Monday night in Central Jersey, hashing over the gubernatorial primary in both parties. One was a Republican. The other a Democrat. The barkeep slopped another round. Here were the questions at the center of the conversation: Who was going to win the Democratic Primary and who was going to win the Republican Primary? First, the Democrats. The two insiders agreed that progressive passion seems to be concentrated in the direction of Ras Baraka and Steve Fulop.
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3 days ago | 
insidernj.com | Max Pizarro
SOMERVILLE - Everybody loves a fighter until they get punched in the nose, then they wish the worldMikie Sherrill. was more peaceful.
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1 week ago | 
insidernj.com | Max Pizarro
The absence of a Goldman Sachs linchpin to hold all 21 counties together and keep the party from imploding into drama, intrigue, hurt feelings, and regional fracturing, proved new terrain for 2025 Democrats now embroiled in a legitimate - and fast accelerating - gubernatorial primary contest.
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1 week ago | 
insidernj.com | Max Pizarro
By Max Pizarro | April 14, 2025, 9:09 pm | in The Diner Booth PRINCETON - Expansive, conversational, and detail-oriented in his answers, Bill Spadea, Republican candidate for governor, trusts that his message, combined with grassroots voter contact, will vault him over the heads of his rivals on June 10th, Primary Day - or at least through an opening.
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1 week ago | 
go.shr.lc | Max Pizarro
By Max Pizarro | April 14, 2025, 9:09 pm | in The Diner Booth PRINCETON - Expansive, conversational, and detail-oriented in his answers, Bill Spadea, Republican candidate for governor, trusts that his message, combined with grassroots voter contact, will vault him over the heads of his rivals on June 10th, Primary Day - or at least through an opening.
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1 week ago | 
insidernj.com | Max Pizarro
By Max Pizarro | April 14, 2025, 2:48 pm | in The Diner Booth NEW BRUNSWICK - People knew Ras Baraka could run a rugged American city - with plenty of jagged edges - and deliver an inspirational speech that a handler didn't construct for him out of cardboard. But would he have door knockers and feisty organized street muscle to go out there and drive the vote for his upstart, power-to-the-people anti-machine run for governor?
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1 week ago | 
go.shr.lc | Max Pizarro
By Max Pizarro | April 14, 2025, 2:48 pm | in The Diner Booth NEW BRUNSWICK - People knew Ras Baraka could run a rugged American city - with plenty of jagged edges - and deliver an inspirational speech that a handler didn't construct for him out of cardboard. But would he have door knockers and feisty organized street muscle to go out there and drive the vote for his upstart, power-to-the-people anti-machine run for governor?
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1 week ago | 
insidernj.com | Max Pizarro
WESTFIELD - Amid the anger, the emotion, and hyper-velocity partisanship, state Senator Jon Bramnick (R-21) refuses to be a demagogue. He's pragmatic, and unwilling to thrust an ideological chest out until he sizes up an issue, which he does with good humor, an agile mind, and the applied principles of law and character. Independent minds celebrate his eloquent and substantive resistance to Donald Trump.
