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  Bills target dual office-holding
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MediaNewspaper - Asbury Park Press
News DateSaturday, September 27, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0
Description"Like most of his political bedfellows, Assemblyman Joseph Azzolina, R-Monmouth, has a lot of jobs on his resume.

Azzolina is president of a chain of supermarkets across Monmouth and Ocean counties, a retired Navy reserves captain and has held statewide office in each of the last five decades.

There's one title, though, Azzolina has never held: dual office holder.

And the Middletown resident said he will push a proposal next year to ban legislators from simultaneously holding a second elected office. The bill also would prohibit legislators from simultaneously sitting on appointed bodies like planning boards, municipal utilities authorities or sewerage commissions."

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