“This is the same thing I’m going to have to do, over and over and over again,” Steve Oroho was reported as saying (NJ Herald, 23 Oct.) after the state senator met with Mayor Nicholas Giordano of Franklin, a fellow Republican.

“This” was successfully convincing Giordano to retract his stated demand for Oroho’s resignation or recall in light of the senator’s sponsorship of a bill that includes a hefty hike in the state’s gas tax.

The Star Ledger endorsed Josh Gottheimer for Congress in the Fifth congressional district.

CD5 Democratic candidate for Congress Josh Gottheimer met with Sussex County law enforcement officers in Newton on Wednesday. The meeting was at the invitation of P.B.A. Local 138, a union representing police officers in Sussex County.

CD11 Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen told editorial board of The Record that he’s comfortable with Donald Trump as President and will vote for him.

Ambassador Phil Murphy may not have New Jersey’s 2017 Democratic gubernatorial nomination in the bag after all.  Assemblyman and Bridgegate Committee Co-Chair John Wisniewski may pursue the nomination.

A couple of weeks ago Sussex County roadways were lined with Trump lawn signs. In the past week or so, they seem to be disappearing. On one fifteen minute trip through the county, where last week you saw dozens of Trump signs, yesterday they appeared on only two lawns.