Joan M. Quigley

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Joan M. Quigley (born September 11, 1940) is an American Democratic Party politician who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 1994, where she represents the 32nd legislative district. Quigley serves as the Majority Conference Leader starting with the 2006-2008 legislative session. She was the Assembly's Deputy Speaker from 2004-2006 and was the Minority Parliamentarian from 1999-2001.

Quigley serves on the Assembly's Homeland Security and State Preparedness Committee (as Chair), the Budget Committee and the Health and Human Services Committee. Quigley sponsored legislation mandating registration of sex offenders and requiring filing of DNA types with state and national databases, and also sponsored legislation setting a statute of limitations on parking tickets.

Quigley is a Hospital administrator for the Bon Secours New Jersey Health System (former Franciscan Health System). She was previously employed as public information officer for the Hudson County Welfare Board and as executive director of a retired senior volunteer program of the Hudson County United Way.

Joan M. Quigley received an A.A. from Hudson County Community College in Public Policy, a B.A. in 1977 from Saint Peter's College, New Jersey in Urban Studies/Sociology and was awarded an M.P.A. in 1979 from Rutgers University in Public Administration.

Contents 1 Proposed Ban of Ann Coulter's book Godless 2 District 32 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Proposed Ban of Ann Coulter's book Godless

On June 8, 2006, Quigley and Assemblywoman Linda Stender proposed banning the sale of Ann Coulter's book Godless: The Church of Liberalism in New Jersey. They issued a joint press release, calling on "..New Jersey retailers to ban the sale of her book throughout the state."

A few days after Quigley and Stender's press release was issued, it was edited on the New Jersey Assembly Democratic Majority website. The word "ban" was replaced with the word "boycott" in two instances (in the title and in the third paragraph).^[1] The original text of the press release can viewed on several websites.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Quigley and Stender issued the press release in response to Coulter's criticism of the Jersey Girls, four widows of the September 11, 2001 attacks from New Jersey who have criticized U.S. policies in the events leading up to September 11th. Due to this press release Stender and Quigley were both featured on Larry King Live on CNN.^{[citation needed]}

Quigley and Stender's call to ban Coulter's book has been denounced as censorship by some.^[7][8] However, others have defended the two by saying that they were merely advocating a boycott, which would allow the book to continue being published uncensored.

[edit] District 32

Each of the forty districts in the New Jersey Legislature has one representative in the New Jersey Senate and two members in the New Jersey General Assembly. The other representatives from the 32nd Legislative District are:

• Assemblyman Vincent Prieto, and
• Senator Nicholas Sacco

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Assemblywoman Quigley's Legislative Website
• New Jersey Voter Information Website 2003
• New Jersey Legislature financial disclosure form for 2005 (PDF)
• New Jersey Legislature financial disclosure form for 2004 (PDF)