Wiley Region

Senator Raymond Lesniak (D-Union), 61, is one of the most powerful political insiders in New Jersey and a partner at the state’s most politically powerful law firms, Weiner Lesniak. He is a graduate of Rutgers University and St. Johns University Law School, and has served in the Legislature since he won an open Assembly seat in 1977. He moved up to the Senate in 1983 after the criminal conviction of his predecessor, and served as Democratic State Chairman in 1992 and 1993.