Legislative Profiles: Elliot Isibor

With Election Day (Nov. 8) fast approaching, Patch takes a look at the candidates for the State of New Jersey District 26 Legislature. We continue with Assembly candidate Elliot Isibor (D- Rockaway).

Name: Elliot Isibor   
Age: Not given
Occupation: Administrator
Previous elected or appointed positions (including previous terms in
sought position, if applicable): Vice President, Board Of Education (Previous positions sought: Councilman at Large; Board of Freeholders; Investment Board City of Newark; Peoples Festival Committee- Chairman; Municipal Alliance Committee-Chairman; United Nations Committee-Chairman
Any other current elected or appointed positions: Rockaway Township Democratic Committee Member; World Igbo Congress Council of Elders Chairman; Songhai Charities Inc. Chairman
Other community associations: Rolling Ridge Block Association Member
Town (and length) of residence: Rockaway Township, Morris County (11 years)
Length of residence in District 26: Same as above
Most pressing issues for this candidate in a coming term, and how they would be addressed:

Most pressing issues:
-Jobs
-Economy
-Property Taxes
-Affordable Education, Housing, and Healthcare
-Realistic encouragement to small businesses
-To hire new workers
-Incentives to be offered to businesses to true new jobs (not firing older workers but hiring newer ones) which will in turn invigorate the economy.
-Make work-business environment hospitable to both new and existing employers/business owners.
-Develop incubators for new intentions to encourage American ingenuity.

Solutions to pressing issues:

In order to make NJ affordable to it's present citizens, and to stem the exodus from the state, we must, at a minimum, make the following changes:
-Through personal contacts, I will bring foreign investors into NJ to build new businesses and industries.
-Eliminate useless, counter-productive, and negative regulations and legislation that discourage investments.
-Encourage local communities to cut government spending, share services, and/or merge workforce.
-Encouraging fiscal responsibility.
-Property assessment should be based upon current sales rather then assessed evaluation of a designated time period.

Fun Fact: "I am a college professor."