Raymond lesniak biography

Raymond J. Lesniak (born May 7, 1946) is an American Democratic Party politician, who served in the New Jersey State Senate from 1983 to 2018, where he represented the 20th Legislative District.
Raymond J. "Ray" Lesniak is an American Democratic Party politician, who served in the New Jersey State Senate from 1983 to 2018, where he represented the 20th Legislative District.
Raymond J. Lesniak (b.

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I’ve known Ray Lesniak for 30 years, since the day I arrived in Trenton in 1992 to begin my tenure as a Senior Policy Advisor on the Assembly Republican Majority staff.

At the beginning, there was nobody I despised more than Ray Lesniak, then serving as the Democratic Senator representing the 20th legislative district, which included as its principal municipality his home City of Elizabeth. My feeling about him was universally shared among my fellow Republican staffers. Ray had very sharp elbows, and his partisanship was intensified by his concurrent service at that time as New Jersey Democratic State Committee chair, selected at the request of the then Governor Jim Florio.

After Christie Whitman was elected governor of New Jersey, I joined her administration as Assistant Commerce Commissioner, serving under the then Commerce Commissioner Gil Medina. I was most fortunate to serve under Gil, for he gave me a number of interesting assignments that helped me build my profile and career.

Two such assignments concerned the City of Elizabeth.

The first was Gil’s appoin

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Senator Raymond Lesniak from NJ for Governor

SENATOR RAYMOND J. LESNIAK BIOGRAPHY

A lifelong resident of Elizabeth, Senator Raymond Lesniak graduated Thomas Jefferson High School in 1964 and served in the US Army 1967-1969. He graduated Rutgers University, class of 1971, and graduated with honors from St. John’s Law School in 1974. He served in the State Assembly from 1978 to 1983, and has been in the Senate since 1983. He currently chairs the Senate Economic Growth Committee, serves as Vice Chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, and is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Throughout his public service career, Senator Lesniak has championed a wide range of legislative efforts.

Early in his tenure, he sponsored landmark environmental policies, such as the Environmental Cleanup Responsibility Act (ECRA), the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Pesticide Control Act, making New Jersey the first-in-the-nation to tackle such issues. The laws hold polluters responsible for their actions and saved New Jersey from the serious consequences to residents’ hea

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Raymond Lesniak

American politician (born 1946)

Raymond J. Lesniak (born May 7, 1946) is an American Democratic Party politician, who served in the New JerseyState Senate from 1983 to 2018, where he represented the 20th Legislative District. Before entering the New Jersey Senate, Lesniak served in the General Assembly from 1978 to 1983.^[1] Lesniak was once considered a major power broker in the Democratic Party, having served as New Jersey Democratic State Chairman, also serving as New Jersey Chair for Clinton/Gore in 1996 and as a major fundraiser for Gore/Lieberman in 2000. Lesniak finished a distant fourth place as a candidate for Governor of New Jersey in the 2017 election.

Early life and education

Lesniak grew up in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He served in the U.S. Army from 1967 to 1969, then earned his Bachelor of Arts in economics from Rutgers University in 1971, and his Juris Doctor from St. John's University School of Law in 1974.^[1] He is an attorney with the firm Weiner Lesniak.^[1]

Lesniak is ethnically Polish.

In 2018, Lesn