The Record
November 6, 2007
By Serdar Tumgoren

Democrat Timothy J. Driscoll has won a four-way mayoral race to give his party a lock on Bergenfield's municipal government.

PoliticsNJ.com
October 31, 2007
By Matt Friedman

State Sen. Loretta Weinberg has a theory about Common Sense America, the 501(c)4 organization that has been running ads attacking Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein in the 14th district.

Weinberg, perhaps the most outspoken legislator on gay rights issues, said that the group has shown itself to fit in with a Republican electoral strategy by targeting Linda Greenstein, who’s in a competitive district, as opposed to her.

Associated Press
October 27, 2007
By Rebecca Santana

When asked about the record number of women running for the Legislature this November, Assemblywoman Alison Littell McHose summed up the opinion of many female legislators when she said: "It's about time."

The Star-Ledger
October 17, 2007
By Tom Moran

Democrats in Bergen County are fighting a civil war that pits a small band of reformers against one of the richest and most powerful machines in the state.

The surprise is that the reformers, led by Sen. Loretta Weinberg, are winning. They have survived every attempt by the machine to knock them off.

The Record
October 10, 2007
By Oshrat Carmiel

Citing the $4.4 million in legal billings a Democratic Party chief collected from a regional agency, state Sen. Loretta Weinberg of Teaneck and her Democratic running mates called Tuesday for passage of several ethics bills pending before the lame duck Legislature.

The trio also highlighted other cases of insiders collecting large fees from governmental agencies.

Press Release
October 10, 2007

(TEANECK) - The 37th District Real Democrats Clean Elections Team, Senator Loretta Weinberg, Assemblyman Gordon M. Johnson and Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle announced a major new ethics reform plan called "Clean Up New Jersey".

"It's no secret that politics in New Jersey is pretty dirty. That's why we are proposing 'Clean Up New Jersey', a comprehensive plan to change the old politics and take government back from the special interests and political insiders," Senator Loretta Weinberg announced in Teaneck on Tuesday morning.

Bergen Record
October 5, 2007
By Joseph Ax

The three Republican candidates for Senate and Assembly in the 37th District failed to qualify for the "Clean Elections" project, missing out on $50,000 or more in public financing.

Meanwhile, the Democratic candidates gathered enough $10 contributions to earn the maximum $100,000 in public money, Sen. Loretta Weinberg, D-Teaneck, said Thursday.

The Record
October 3, 2007

On its second time around, New Jersey's experiment in publicly financed legislative elections may have found the right threshold for participation -- significant enough to admit most candidacies, but excluding the few so bereft of support that they aren't worth the taxpayers' money. Unfortunately, it looks like Bergen County is home to most of the latter.