Cliffside Park is a borough in Bergen County,in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census,the borough's population was 25,693,an increase of 2,099 (+8.9%) from the 2010 census count of 23,594,which in turn reflected an increase of 587 (+2.6%) from the 23,007 counted in the 2000 census.
Paul Anthony Sarlo is an American construction industry executive and Democratic Party politician who has served in the New Jersey Senate since 2003,where he represents the 36th Legislative District. Sarlo is a former Assistant Majority Leader of the Senate,a position held from 2004 until 2007,has been Deputy Majority Leader of the New Jersey Senate since 2008,and is also mayor of the borough of Wood-Ridge,New Jersey.
Valerie Vainieri Huttle is an American Democratic Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly where she represented the 37th Legislative District,from 2006 to 2022. Huttle served on the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders from 2001 through 2006.
Vincent Prieto is an American Democratic Party politician. He served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2004 to 2018,where he represented the 32nd Legislative District. He formerly served as the 170th Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly from 2014 to 2018. He was chair of the Hudson County Democratic Organization until 2018,when he was succeeded by Amy DeGise.
Gary Steven Schaer is an American Democratic Party politician who represents the 36th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly since he took office on January 10,2006. He also serves on the Passaic,New Jersey City Council where he is the council president. Schaer is the first Orthodox Jew in the New Jersey Legislature. In the Assembly,Schaer was Deputy Speaker from 2012 to 2023 and chair of the Budget Committee from 2014 to 2017,and has been the Assembly's Policy Chair since 2020.
The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) is one of 15 principal departments in New Jersey government. The department's mission is to regulate the banking,insurance and real estate industries in a professional and timely manner that protects and educates consumers and promotes the growth,financial stability and efficiency of these industries. The Commissioner of DOBI is Marlene Caride.
Daniel R. Benson is an American Democratic Party politician who is the current Mercer County Executive and a former member of the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 14th Legislative District. Benson,who previously served on the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders,replaced Assemblywoman Linda R. Greenstein,after she was elected to the New Jersey Senate in a special election. He was sworn in on January 10,2011,to fill Greenstein's vacant Assembly seat.
Kevin J. Ryan was a U.S. Democratic Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 36th legislative district. Ryan was sworn in on January 6,2011,to fill the remainder of the term of Frederick Scalera,who retired from the Assembly to accept a job in the private sector. He did not run in the 2011 election after redistricting moved his hometown of Nutley into the 28th District.
New Jersey's 36th Legislative District is one of 40 districts that make up the map for the New Jersey Legislature. It encompasses the Bergen County municipalities of Carlstadt,Cliffside Park,East Rutherford,Edgewater,Fairview,Lyndhurst,North Arlington,Ridgefield,Rutherford,Wallington,and Wood-Ridge and the city of Passaic in Passaic County.
Marlene Caride is an American politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2012 to 2018,where she represented the 36th Legislative District. Caride resigned from the Assembly in January 2018 pending her confirmation by the New Jersey Senate to serve as head of the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance.
Eliana Pintor Marin is an American Democratic Party politician,who has represented the 29th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly,having been named to the seat on September 11,2013,to fill the vacant seat of Alberto Coutinho following his resignation. Pintor Marin has served as the Assembly Budget Chair since 2018.
Robert Joseph Auth is an American politician from New Jersey who represents the 39th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly since taking office on January 14,2014.
Carol A. Murphy is an American Democratic Party politician,who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since January 9,2018.
Britnee N. Timberlake is an American Democratic Party elected official,community advocate,nonprofit executive,and humanitarian. She has represented the 34th Legislative District in the New Jersey Senate since January 2024,when she became New Jersey's youngest state senator. Before she took office in the senate,Timberlake had represented the 34th District in the New Jersey General Assembly from January 29,2018,when she was sworn in to replace Sheila Oliver,who took office as Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey. Timberlake had served as Freeholder President of the Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders,where she was at the time the state's only African-American woman to serve as a freeholder board leader.
Verlina Reynolds-Jackson is an American Democratic Party politician who represents the 15th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly. Previously a member of the Trenton City Council,Reynolds-Jackson was sworn into office on February 15,2018,to succeed Elizabeth Maher Muoio,who left office after being nominated to serve as Treasurer of New Jersey.
Linda Carter is an American Democratic Party politician. who has represented the 22nd Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly since taking office in 2018 to fill the seat that had been vacant following the death of Jerry Green.
Lisa Swain is an American Democratic Party politician. A resident of Fair Lawn,she has represented the 38th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly since she was appointed to the seat in May 2018.
The 218th New Jersey Legislature began on January 9,2018 following the 2017 Elections. The session started in the end of Chris Christie's governorship and continued in the first two years of Phil Murphy's governorship.
Aura Kenny Dunn is an American Republican Party politician who has represented the 25th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly from November 25,2019,until January 14,2020. She was sworn in again on February 3,2020.
The 2017 New Jersey General Assembly elections were held on November 7,2017,to elect members to all 80 seats of the New Jersey General Assembly. Prior to the elections,Democrats held a 52–28 majority in the lower house. Overall,the Democrats increased their majority by 2 to a super-majority at 54–26,due to holding all their seats as well as picking up open seats in District 2 and District 16. This tied Democrats for their largest majority since 1979.
