NJN reporter will be new Senate Secretary
By Wally Edge | December 31st, 2009 - 6:02pmSenate President-designate Stephen Sweeney (D-West Deptford) has named a veteran public television reporter as the new Secretary of the Senate.
Kent St. John, who has been with New Jersey Network (NJN) News since 1987, will take office when the Senate reorganizes on January 12. He will replace Ellen Davenport, a former Essex County Freeholder who was named to the post by Senate President Richard Codey after Democrats took control of the Senate in 2003. St. John will become the first African American to hold the Senate Secretary post.
"Kent brings with him a thorough knowledge of the State legislative process through his work as anchor, reporter, and producer at New Jersey Network News and twenty-nine years of diversified broadcasting experience," Sweeney said. "He will serve the Senate with great capability and dedication.”
A resident of Lindenwold, St. John is the chief of NJN News' South Jersey bureau. He has served as the morning news anchor for WDAS in Philadelphia and as columnist for the Philadelphia Sunday Press.
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Not suprising, NJN is the Democrat party's propganda machine
Does this really surprise anyone? NJN has been nothing but a propaganda tool of the Democratic party since Florio was elected Governor. Now they make an unofficial mouth piece an official one. St. John goes from one propaganda job to a higher paying one for the Democrat state senate.
Actor, Grow up and stop cryiy
Actor,
Grow up and stop cryiy about your conspiracy theory media bias crap. Go listen to Rush.
Time to defund all public TV and the arts
NJN is just a taxpayer funded mouth piece
for the Democrats always has and always was.
Funded by the idiots in PS E & G and the Liberal Government unions and special interests that control the Democrats.
The rest of us cant afford this taxpayer funded crap anymore.
Hope you are listening Chris Christie its time to pull the tax payer plug on NJN
are you suprised?
another pompous ass in trenton.
Elected position !
Although the President of the Senate has the most say on who the Secretary of the Senate will be we have to remember that the Secretary of the Senate is elected by all the members of the senate. The Secretary can be a senator but has never been in our state. He or she is known as the unofficial 41st senator. He or she is the chief administrative officer of the senate and keeps the senate running smoothly and worlks very hard. I have known a few of the Secretaries and they all were very good people.
Stage Name?
There is no "Kent St. John" listed as a state employee in DataUniverse. Either he is not in PERS or this is not his real name. Anyone know?