Ridgewood Resident Launches 40th District Assembly Campaign
Paul Vagianos and Christine Ordway pitching themselves as fiscal reformers.
Democrats Paul Vagianos and Christine Ordway formally announced their candidacy to try and unseat the long-serving Republicans in the 40th Legislative District.
The candidates are selling themselves as independent fiscal reformers who have deep knowledge of the state’s fiscal problems, including the recent pension payment cuts, and how to fix them.
“The recent cuts to state pension payments are only the latest in a long line of Trenton’s failures to reckon with its abysmal finances that hold us back from dealing with the vital quality of life issues that can move New Jersey forward,” Ordway said in a statement.
Vagianos, a Ridgewood resident and president of the village’s Chamber of Commerce, said that officials must run the state the way a small business owner runs a successful business: With fiscal responsibility.
“We’re not going to get New Jersey back in businesses until we start running it like one,” said Vagianos.
Ordway lives in Franklin Lakes and has had a long career as a financial auditor and capital planner. She has never held elected office.
Vagianos was elected to the Board of Education in his hometown of Fort Lee when he was 20.
Assemblymen Scott Rumana and David Russo have represented the 40th Legislative District for eight and 25 years, respectively.
The 40th Legislative District stretches across Bergen, Essex, Morris, and Passaic counties and includes Franklin Lakes, Ridgewood, Wayne, and Wyckoff.
(Pictured: Paul Vagianos, Christine Ordway, and Tom Bryne, former state Democratic chairman/Courtesy of Devin McGinley)
