August 13, 2009 - 1:30pm
Inside Edge

Rodriguez fuels speculation of Assembly bid with retirement from judgeship

Superior Court Judge Mathias Rodriguez notified state judiciary officials that he will retire from the bench effective tomorrow, a move that increases speculation that he will replace embattled South Amboy Mayor Jack O'Leary as the Democratic candidate for State Assembly in the nineteenth district.   Rodriguez, a Perth Amboy resident, has spent twenty years on the Superior Court.

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