{"id":306971,"date":"2026-07-27T20:26:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306971\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T20:26:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:26:02","slug":"rodriguez-quijano-is-the-most-qualified-choice-for-union-county-clerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306971\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodriguez: Quijano Is the Most Qualified Choice for Union County Clerk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 12.0pt 0in 12.0pt 0in;\">Rodriguez: Quijano Is the Most Qualified Choice for Union County Clerk<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12.0pt 0in 12.0pt 0in;\">ELIZABETH, NJ \u2014 Assemblyman Ed Rodriguez (D-20) today released the following statement regarding the vacancy in the Office of the Union County Clerk:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12.0pt 0in 12.0pt 0in;\">\u201cJoanne Rajoppi served Union County for three decades with a level of expertise in election administration that earned respect among her colleagues across the country and party lines. Her passing is a real loss for our state and county, and my condolences remain with her family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12.0pt 0in 12.0pt 0in;\">\u201cThe Clerk\u2019s office she built deserves a successor with the experience to continue that work. The County Clerk administers our election laws, maintains the county\u2019s land records, and carries statutory responsibilities that demand real legal training. Should she seek the position, I can think of no one in Union County more qualified than Assemblywoman Annette Quijano. She is an attorney with nearly two decades of service in the Legislature, where she has spent her career writing and interpreting the very laws this office is charged with carrying out. Few people in this county can match her preparation for the specific duties of this office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12.0pt 0in 12.0pt 0in;\">\u201cIf Assemblywoman Quijano puts her name forward, I would expect the members of the Union County Democratic Committee to look past any political considerations and select the most experienced person available. The residents of Union County deserve nothing less.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rodriguez: Quijano Is the Most Qualified Choice for Union County Clerk ELIZABETH, NJ \u2014 Assemblyman Ed Rodriguez (D-20)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-306971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}