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By Wally EdgeIn 1977, Thomas Dunn was a State Senator and the Mayor of Elizabeth, while John Gregorio was an Assemblyman and the Mayor of Linden. Union County Democrats dumped Dunn from the organization line and ran Gregorio for the Senate; Dunn sought re-election as an Independent.
"Mayor Gregorio said that while the (Union Democratic) County Committee had adopted a rule against holding dual public offices he and Mayor Dunn had been 'grandathered in" because they had held the two positions prior to the adoption of the rule."
-- Alfonso A. Navarez, New York Times, 10/16/77.
Gregorio defeated Dunn, with Republican Robert Walsh running third. The open Assembly seat was won by a young attorney from Elizabeth named Raymond Lesniak.
Dunn spent 28 years as Mayor before losing a Democratic primary to Christian Bollwage in 1992 -- twelve years after he narrowly defeated Lesniak for Mayor -- and returned to the Legislature as an Assemblyman from 1992 to 1994.
Gregorio was forced to leave the Senate and the mayoralty after his 1983 criminal conviction; Lesniak succeeded him in the Senate. After Governor Thomas Kean pardoned him just before leaving office in January 1990, Gregorio was again elected Mayor of Linden. He served there until losing his bid for re-election last year.
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