Everything about Brian P Stack totally explained
Brian P. Stack (born
May 16,
1966) is an
American Democratic Party politician who has served in the
New Jersey Senate since
January 8,
2008 where he represents the
33rd legislative district and also serves as the
mayor of
Union City, New Jersey. Prior to his election to the Senate, he served in the
lower house of the
New Jersey Legislature, the
General Assembly from 2004 to 2008.
Early life and career
A lifelong resident of Union City, Stack attended
Emerson High School.
Stack later rose to prominence as the leader of a civic organization called Union City First, and for his public criticism of the administration of Mayor Rudy Garcia, whom Stack replaced as mayor in a 2000
recall election. He attained the position after the Union City Board of Commissioners appointed him commissioner following Garcia’s resignation. He served as a Commissioner from 1997-1998, was elected to the Board of Commissioners in a special election in November 2001 and in May 2002 he ran unopposed. Stack simultaneously won the Union City seat on the Hudson County
Board of Chosen Freeholders where he served until his election to the Assembly. Since 2004, he's also served in the General Assembly, and was reelected in 2005.
As mayor and Assemblyman
Mayor Stack has dedicated much of his time as Mayor to quality of life issues in Union City. His biggest initiative, closing local bars at 2 am instead of 3 am, has gained support from local police and city residents, though understandable opposition from local tavern owners. Most references to Stack in Union City’s local
newspaper, The
Union City Reporter, tend to be positive.
In the Assembly, Stack serves on the Regulated Professions and Independent Authorities Committee (as Vice Chair), the Transportation and Public Works Committee and the Joint Legislative Committee on Public School Funding Reform. Stack responded by asserting that he doesn't accept contributions from bars and establishments, and explained that "[Medrano] used her name and address in
Fairview. We make it practice of not accepting donations from bar owners or establishments, and we don't accept cash." Stack pointed out that Medrano's establishments were not mentioned on the form with which she made the donations, and that he decided to donate the money to the Battered Women's Shelter of Hudson County once the donations were revealed, claiming that in addition to not being aware of the source of the money, he was unaware of the illicit activities going on in the bars. Stack also defended the Union City Police, who are assigned to watch the taverns for quality of life reasons, and who incurred criticism for their apparent ignorance of the goings-on in the taverns, on the same basis, arguing that they only patrolled the streets, but didn't enter the taverns when they did so, and thus, couldn't see what occurred in them.
Some critics remained skeptical of Stack's position, such as then-
Republican candidate for Assembly
Richard Valdes, who said, "I challenge Assemblyman and Mayor Brian Stack to disclose the nature of his relationship and questionable campaign contributions from Medrano." Stack responded that he never met Medrano until a fundraiser held a year earlier, saying that Medrano was stopped at the door and was turned away from contributing to the event. Valdes also questioned the acceptance, by Stack’s campaign committee, of $5,000 from Union City truck driver David Lopez, who had sold a vacant Union City lot to the
Jersey City School Construction Corporation for $1.48 million, after Lopez had already gotten zoning approval and began advertisement for
condominiums to be built on it. Stack also claimed he was unaware of that donation, stated that that money was donated to the PERC Homeless Shelter, and that Valdes’ comments were merely political-motivated.
On same-sex civil unions
Stack was an advocate of New Jersey's same-sex
civil union law. The law, which was signed by governor
Jon Corzine on
December 21,
2006, and went into effect
February 19,
2007, grants
same-sex couples the same legal protections and benefits of marriage. Said Stack, Commenting on opposition to the bill, Stack explained,
State senate
In 2007, Stack ran for the
New Jersey Senate with a team of eight other 33rd District Assembly candidates vying for nine legislative seats, under the banner Democrats for Hudson County. Their main opposition was the Hudson County Democratic Organization (HCDO), which was headed by
West New York Mayor
Silverio Vega. On
June 5,
2007, Stack won the primary, beating his opponents by a wide margin of 18,213 votes to Vega's 5,582, though only three of the candidates in Stack's column, including himself, were victorious. Stack and the HCDO subsequently swept the state Senate and state Assembly in the
November 6,
2007 general election.
District 33
Each of the forty districts in the New Jersey Legislature has one representative in the
New Jersey Senate and two members in the
New Jersey General Assembly. The other representatives from the 33rd District for the 2008-2009 Legislative Session are:
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