In a race that will be more about grievances against Union City Mayor/State Sen. Brian P. Stack than about policy issues, two allies of North Bergen Mayor Nicholas Sacco have entered the race for the Democratic nomination for State Assembly in the 33rd district.
Tony Hector, a landlord and former North Bergen school board member, will team up with Frank Alonso, a Trump supporter and former Union City GOP Municipal Chairman who registered as a Democrat earlier this week. He has run against Stack before.
They will face Assemblyman Gabriel Rodriguez (D-West New York) and his running mate, North Bergen businessman Larry Wainstein, a longtime Sacco rival. The incumbent, Julio Marenco (D-North Bergen), is not seeking re-election to a second term.
“My campaign for State Assembly is going to be about exposing Brian Stack’s bossism, corruption, waste, and endless lust for political power to protect the taxpayers of North Bergen, Union City, West New York, Gutenberg, and Weehawken,” Hector stated. “We need independent Democrats who will fight for the people, not Boss Stack.”
Hector and Alonso will share a slogan with Jersey City Mayor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Steve Fulop.
Hector took a shot at Wainstein, who has lost three races against Sacco.
“We will never let a man like him win,” he said.
Stack almost faced Alonso for the first time in 1999 in a race for Hudson County Freeholder. In the Democratic primary, Stack defeated incumbent Neftali Cruz with 85% of the vote running an off-the-line campaign. Alonso lost the Republican primary by about 50 votes. He beat Alonso by about 7,000 votes, In 2006, Stack beat Alonso in a Union City non-partisan municipal race in a landslide.
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