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Perth Amboy Mayor-elect Diaz need not look far for role models PDF Print E-mail
Saturday, 17 May 2008

BY RICK MALWITZ
MyCentralJersey.com

When Mayor Joe Vas cleans out his desk, after voters of Perth Amboy decided 18 years
were enough, he will do so knowing the city is a better place than it was in 1990. Chances are the in-box in the mail room will not be filled.

He recalled last week, ""There were seven weeks of unopened mail,'' when he replaced former Mayor George Otlowski.

""I started out with a passion for the job because I refused to abandon Perth Amboy. Most of my friends were moving out of town. You could smell the stench of debt. There was physical decay and social decay,'' he recalled.

READ MORE: http://www.mycentraljersey.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080517/NEWS/805170424/1003/newsfront





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