Joan M. Quigley (born December 6, 1934) is an American

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politician who served in the

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from 1994 to 2012, representing the 32nd Legislative District. Quigley served as the Majority Conference Leader starting with the 2006–2008 legislative session. She was the Assembly's Deputy Speaker from 2004 to 2006 and was the Minority Parliamentarian from 1999 to 2001.Assemblywoman Quigley's legislative web page
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. Accessed April 13, 2008. She writes for ''

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''.

Career

Quigley served in the Assembly on the State Government Committee (as chair), the Budget Committee, the Health and Senior Services Committee and the Legislative Services Commission. Quigley sponsored legislation mandating registration of sex offenders and requiring filing of DNA types with state and national databases, and also sponsored legislation setting a

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on parking tickets. Quigley is a hospital administrator for the Bon Secours New Jersey Health System (former Franciscan Health System). She was previously employed as public information officer for the

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Welfare Board and as executive director of a retired senior volunteer program of the Hudson County

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. She received an A.A. from

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in Public Policy, a

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in 1977 from

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, and was awarded an M.P.A. in 1979 from

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. In the wake of the 2011 apportionment based on the results of the

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, the section of

Jersey City Jersey City is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark.Angelica M. Jimenez Angelica M. Jimenez (born March 19, 1965) is an American Democratic Party politician, who has been serving in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2012, where she represents the 32nd Legislative District. Jimenez has been the Deputy Speaker in ...

, a vice president of the board of education in

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. Jimenez won the election and succeeded Quigley in the Assembly in January 2012.

Criticism of Ann Coulter

On June 8, 2006, Quigley and Assemblywoman

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publicly criticized

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's book '' Godless: The Church of Liberalism''. Stender and Quigley issued a press release in response to Coulter's criticism of the

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, four widows of the

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from New Jersey who had criticized U.S. policies in the events leading up to September 11. The press release called on New Jersey retailers to "express their outrage by refusing to carry or sell copies of Coulter's book."

References

External links

Assemblywoman Quigley's legislative web page
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* ''New Jersey Legislature financial disclosure forms'' *
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Assembly Member Joan M. Quigley

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