Vincent Prieto (born September 11, 1960) is an American Democratic Party politician. He served in the
New Jersey General Assembly
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Since the election of 1967 (1968 Session), the Assembly has consisted of 80 members. Two members are elected from each of New Jersey's 40 legislative districts f ...
from 2004 to 2018, where he represented the 32nd Legislative District. He formerly served as the 170th Speaker of the
New Jersey General Assembly
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Since the election of 1967 (1968 Session), the Assembly has consisted of 80 members. Two members are elected from each of New Jersey's 40 legislative districts f ...
The Record (Bergen County)
''The Record'' (also called ''The North Jersey Record'', ''The Bergen Record'', ''The Sunday Record'' (Sunday edition) and formerly ''The Bergen Evening Record'') is a newspaper in New Jersey, United States. Serving Bergen, Essex, Hudson and ...
'', February 15, 2018. Accessed February 17, 2018. "Assemblyman Vincent Prieto, D–Secaucus, is stepping down from his Assembly seat to take a new job as president and CEO of the New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority.... The NJSEA Board of Commissioners approved Prieto’s appointment, with an annual salary of $280,000, on Thursday morning. The move comes at the recommendation of Gov. Phil Murphy."
Biography
Prieto is a
Cuban-American
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. In 1971, he and his mother took a Freedom Flight (air-lift resettlement program offering alien resident status to Cuban exiles) and moved to North Hudson County at a time when it was known as
Havana on the Hudson
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During the latter ...
Bergen Community College
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Paramus ( Waggoner, Walter H ''The New ...
where he received a degree for fire code technology. Outside of his legislative and political duties, he is the construction code official for the Town of
Secaucus
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Anthony Impreveduto
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, who resigned after pleading guilty to using campaign contributions for personal purposes. In the heavily Democratic-leaning 32nd district, he has not faced significant opposition in any general election since being appointed.
He garnered the support of 41 of 48 colleagues and became the Assembly Speaker in November 2013 replacing
Sheila Oliver
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. He is the second Cuban-American to lead the Assembly after fellow Hudson County Democrat
Albio Sires
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.
Prieto serves as the Chairman of the Legislative Services Commission. Prieto served in the Assembly as the Deputy Majority Whip from 2006 to 2011. He previously served in the Assembly as chair on the Budget Committee, the Budget Oversight Committee, and the Regulated Professions Committee; he was also a member of the Appropriations Committee, the Transportation Committee, the Public Works Committee, and the Independent Authorities Committee.Assemblyman Prieto's legislative web page
New Jersey Legislature
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. Accessed April 13, 2008.
In 2013 the ''
Hudson Reporter
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'' ranked him #7 in its list of Hudson County's 50 most influential people, and #5 in 2015.Sullivan, Al; Davis, Carlo; Schwartz, Art; Passantino, Joseph (January 18, 2015). ''The Union City Reporter'', pp 1, 5, 9, 12 He replaced
Bayonne
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mayor Mark Smith as the chairman of the Hudson County Democratic Organization in 2013.
District 32
Each of the forty districts in the New Jersey Legislature has one representative in the
New Jersey Senate
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and two members in the
New Jersey General Assembly
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Since the election of 1967 (1968 Session), the Assembly has consisted of 80 members. Two members are elected from each of New Jersey's 40 legislative districts f ...
. The other representatives from the 32nd District for the 2014-2015 Legislative Session are:
*Senator
Nicholas Sacco
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New Jersey Legislature
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