Caridad Rodriguez Explained

Caridad Rodriguez
Office:Member of the
Hudson County Board of County Commissioners
from the 7th district
Term Start:January 1, 2015
Predecessor:Jose Carlos Munoz[1]
State Assembly1:New Jersey
District1:33rd
Term Start1:January 8, 2008
Term End1:May 17, 2011
Predecessor1:Brian P. Stack
Silverio Vega
Successor1:Sean Connors
Birth Date:September 20, 1947
Nationality:American
Party:Democratic
Website:Assembly Majority Web site

Caridad "Cary" Rodriguez (born September 20, 1947) is an American Democratic Party politician, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly, where she represented the 33rd Legislative District from 2008 until she resigned to take office as a commissioner of West New York, New Jersey in May 2011.[2]

Career life

Rodriguez and her running mates won a strongly fought primary battle in June 2007, defeating a slate supported by the Hudson County Democratic Organization led by then-Assemblyman Silverio Vega.[3]

Rodriguez served in West New York as Commissioner of Parks and Public Property from 2006-07.

She served in the Assembly on the Human Services Committee (as Vice-Chair), the Transportation, Public Works and Independent Authorities Committee and the Intergovernmental Relations Commission.[4]

She attended Union Hill High School and Berkeley College (Legal Secretary/Paralegal Studies).[4]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Our Campaigns - Hudson County Freeholder 7 Race - Nov 04, 2014.
  2. News: Torres. Augustin. Roque is out conferring, Vega is mostly out of sight: Political Insider. May 17, 2011. The Jersey Journal. May 14, 2011.
  3. Chen, David W. "Voters Send Mixed Signals to Democratic Organization in New Jersey Primaries", The New York Times, June 6, 2007. Accessed April 11, 2008. "In the 33rd District, Mr. Stack, who is also the mayor of Union City, defeated Mr. Vega, who is also the mayor of West New York. Mr. Stack’s running mates for the Assembly — Ruben J. Ramos Jr. and Caridad Rodriguez — also won easily."
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20111104183853/http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/BIO.asp?Leg=294 Assemblywoman Rodriguez's legislative web page