Brian P. Stack works seven days a week, frequently logging fifteen-hour days as the full-time mayor of Union City, but for twenty years, he’d earned a salary of just $16,000 annually, or less than $5-per-hour. Nearly two years ago, Union...
Senator Bob Menendez raised $1,574,228 during the second quarter of 2023, giving the three-term incumbent a $7.8 million warchest ahead of the 2024 Senate elections. Menendez previously raised an also-formidable $1.1 million during the year’s first quarter. “The Senator has...
Yesterday, Semafor and several other news outlets reported that U.S. Senator Bob Menendez – five years removed from the dismissal of previous corruption charges – is once again under federal investigation. But if top Democrats in the legislature have thoughts...
As first reported by Semafor and later corroborated by NBC News and Politico New Jersey, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez is once again facing a federal investigation, five years after a jury deadlocked on corruption charges in an earlier case. According...
A Bergen County political insider is joining one of New Jersey’s most influential public affairs firms. Mercury announced today that Nicholas M. Mammano, who has been chief of staff to State Sen. Joseph Lagana (D-Paramus) since 2014, has joined their...
After thirteen years running Mercury’s New Jersey office, Michael DuHaime will leave the global public affairs firm at the end of the year amid a partnership shakeup triggered by issues with the company’s California, New York and London offices. Michael...
The defeat of Senate President Steve Sweeney has caused a seismic shift in New Jersey politics, but that won’t affect the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, where Chairman Kevin O’Toole’s relationship with the new guy, Nicholas Scutari,...