Post by Logan on Apr 24, 2016 3:52:59 GMT -6
Defiance of Chris Christie in Atlantic City battle puts spotlight on Vincent Prieto
Vincent Prieto boasts of his ability to recall arcane numbers, like the building codes for his day job as Secaucus’ top construction official or the line-item costs in legislation for his elected job as speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly.
Or the numbers notched into his memory from his 1960s childhood in Fidel Castro’s Cuba — the daily one-quarter loaf of bread rations, the 6 ounces of meat per person, the one pair of new shoes a year.
His elders sometimes turned to the black market or bartering for basic necessities. But they always started out with a bottom line: never come home empty-handed.
“That’s why for me, in the negotiating process, I got to get something,” the 55-year-old Prieto said last week after giving a talk to business leaders and lobbyists at a breakfast forum in East Windsor. “And it doesn’t have to be my way or the highway. I’m a guy that will bend a lot to get things because I know what difficulties are.”
Read more: www.northjersey.com/news/stile-defiance-of-chris-christie-in-atlantic-city-battle-puts-spotlight-on-vincent-prieto-1.1551712
Vincent Prieto boasts of his ability to recall arcane numbers, like the building codes for his day job as Secaucus’ top construction official or the line-item costs in legislation for his elected job as speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly.
Or the numbers notched into his memory from his 1960s childhood in Fidel Castro’s Cuba — the daily one-quarter loaf of bread rations, the 6 ounces of meat per person, the one pair of new shoes a year.
His elders sometimes turned to the black market or bartering for basic necessities. But they always started out with a bottom line: never come home empty-handed.
“That’s why for me, in the negotiating process, I got to get something,” the 55-year-old Prieto said last week after giving a talk to business leaders and lobbyists at a breakfast forum in East Windsor. “And it doesn’t have to be my way or the highway. I’m a guy that will bend a lot to get things because I know what difficulties are.”
Read more: www.northjersey.com/news/stile-defiance-of-chris-christie-in-atlantic-city-battle-puts-spotlight-on-vincent-prieto-1.1551712