Joseph Suliga
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Joseph Suliga (1958 - February 18, 2005) was an American Democratic Party politician, who served in the New Jersey State Senate until 2004, where he represented the 22nd Legislative District. Suliga did not run for re-election in 2003 after a scandal involving his alleged drunken groping of a woman in Atlantic City, NJ [1]. Instead he entered re-hab and was succeeded in the Senate by fellow Linden Democrat Nicholas Scutari. Suliga was killed in an auto accident in the parking lot of a Linden Go Go Bar.[2].
In the Senate, Suliga sponsored legislation requiring insurance coverage for mammograms to women over 35. He was co-chair of the Senate Environmental Committee and served as the second ranking Democrat on the Appropriations Committee.
Suliga started his career in elected office at the age of 19 as the youngest person ever elected to the Linden Public Schools Board of Education, while he was a student at Kean University. Later, he served on the Linden City Council. Before his election the Senate, Scutari served in the New Jersey General Assembly, the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature, and was a member of the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders.
Suliga was a graduate of Kean University, and was granted a Master of Public Administration degree in 1993 from Kean University and earned another Master's degree from Rutgers University.
[edit] External links
- STATEMENT OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF SENATOR JOSEPH SULIGA, PolticsNJ.com, dated February 19, 2005
- IN MEMORIAM: KEAN ALUMNUS JOSEPH SULIGA 1957-2005 - Kean University
