Ron Rice Jr.

January 23, 2008 - 12:12am

The political wars and the crises in Newark

Tags: Cory Booker, Donald Payne, Steve Adubato, Anibal Ramos, Ron Rice, Joseph DiVincenzo, M. Teresa Ruiz, Ron Rice Jr.

Newark Mayor Cory BookerAfter M. Teresa Ruiz won her general election senate race, Steve Adubato finally let Cory Booker know what he thought about the mayor’s primary election efforts on behalf of Bilal Beasley in the 28th district.

Adubato, lifelong political warrior and Newark native, frankly wasn’t impressed.

Beasley, with Booker’s so called muscle behind him, had failed to beat the always independent and hard-to-gauge Sen. Ronald Rice, perennial west ward cowboy and activist, and a mutual bane to Adubato and Booker.

Adubato’s telephone tongue-lashing awakened another old frustration for the mayor.

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February 1, 2008 - 5:27am

The battle beneath the Clinton-Obama battle

By Max Pizarro

Tags: Richard Codey, Cory Booker, William Payne, Mark Alexander, Barack Obama, Donald Payne, Hillary Clinton, Steve Adubato, Mildred Crump, Ron Rice, PABLO FONSECA, Wayne Smith, M. Teresa Ruiz, Lionel Leach, Ron Rice Jr., Clifford Minor, Tom Cook, May 13

Lionel Leach and Jackie Teel, working the phones in Clinton HQ in NewarkWhen Sen. Ronald Rice and North Ward Democratic Party boss Steve Adubato find themselves in the same political foxhole, something is either amiss, or it’s a presidential election year.

In certain company, the lead-up to Tuesday’s historic Democratic Primary contest looks like some incidental skirmish in Newark with here-today, gone-tomorrow alliances, played out as a backdrop to that more fervent chess war between local rivals angling for the real epic of some area city council and freeholder races later this year.

Lionel Leach, Rice’s former campaign field director, serves as spokesman for Sen. Hillary Clinton in her campaign’s week-and-a-half old Broad Street headquarters, even as North Ward Democratic Organization campaign firebrand Sen. M. Teresa Ruiz continues to steel the Latino vote for Clinton in rallies statewide. On the heels of his own family fight with Adubato, U.S. Rep. Donald Payne also intends to do some campaigning for Clinton this weekend.

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