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1977-01-01 |
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| Name | John A. Spizziri |
| Address | 279 Franklin Ave.
Wyckoff, New Jersey , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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September 02, 1934
(89 years)
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| Contributor | RMF |
| Last Modifed | WSNJ
Aug 11, 2023 05:53pm |
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| Info | In the 1971 general election, the last in which districts were allocated by county, Spizziri (with 29,416 votes) and his Republican running mate C. Gus Rys (with 30,714) defeated Democrats Anthony Spataro (22,850) and Marjorie A. Wyngaarden (22,670) to win the two seats in District 13C, covering portions of Bergen County. With the creation of the 40-district New Jersey Legislature and the first election under this format held in 1973, Spizziri (who received 28,156 ballots cast) and Rys (29,386) were elected to office representing the 40th Legislative District, defeating Democrats Vincent A. Girardy (27,793) and Paul S. Konstadt (26,957). In the 1975 general election, Spizziri (topping the balloting with 31,614 votes) and Rys (with 31,470), were re-elected, defeating Democratic challengers Rose Brunetto (21,170) and Paul Lewis (20,851).
In 1977, Spizziri sponsored legislation that would require leasing agents to be licensed and to return any fees charged in excess of $10 if the agent was unable to find an appropriate apartment unit for the prospective renter.
In May 1977, a New York City resident was arrested for having several prescription tranquilizer pills in an unmarked vial, after a jacket holding the vial was dragged away by a dog and was found by someone who turned it into the police; the individual who owned the jacket—and the pills that had been inside it—had removed the pills from a labeled prescription bottle and placed it in an unmarked pillbox in order to take the medication over the course of the day, but was arrested by the local police and the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office was considering indicting the individual under a provision of state law that prohibited individuals from transporting certain prescription tranquilizers in anything other than the marked medicine bottle in which the medication had been dispensed by a pharmacy. Spizziri proposed legislation in the General Assembly that would allow people to carry two days worth of medication in an unmarked vial, as long as the individual could demonstrate a medical need for carrying the pills and had documentation demonstrating the nature of the prescription along with details of the prescribing physician and pharmacist. He noted that many of his colleagues in the legislature would often carry prescription medication in unmarked vials.
After his two-term Assembly partner and former running mate C. Gus Rys announced in March 1977 that he would not run for re-election, Spizziri faced a primary battle fought between competing groups within the Republican Party in Bergen County and came in third with 6,670 votes, behind W. Cary Edwards (7,656) and Walter M. D. Kern (6,952). Among the 120 primary contests being held that year statewide for the entire New Jersey Legislature, Spizziri was one of four incumbents, and the only Republican, to lose their bid for renomination in the primaries.
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