George Warrington

December 24, 2007 - 4:34pm

George Warrington dies

George Warrington, who served as President of Amtrak and as Executive Director of New Jersey Transit, died today after a long illness. His career in transportation included service as Executive Director of the Delaware River Port Authority and as Deputy Commissioner of Transportation. Warrington was a rare breed of powerful government official in New Jersey: widely respected and of considerable integrity, and without serious detractors.

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January 9, 2008 - 1:31pm

In Memorium 2007

By Editor

Tags: Joseph Minish, David Rebovich, Byron Baer, George Warrington, David Waks, Wesley Lance, Alexander Menza

PolitickerNJ.com was deeply saddened by the death of Dr. David Rebovich, a prominent, popular and powerful political science professor at Rider University, and the Director of the Rider University Institute for New Jersey Politics, on October 12 . He was among the very best that New Jersey had to offer and it was our considerable honor to run his weekly column for the last six years. We miss him.

Among the favorites of the New Jersey political community who passed away in 2007: Fort Lee Mayor Jack Alter; former State Senator Byron Baer; former Assemblyman Neil Duffy; former Senate President Wesley Lance; former Burlington County Democratic Chairman George Lee; former State Sen. Alexander Menza, a candidate for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination in 1978; former Bergen County Executive William McDowell; former Plainfield Mayor Albert McWilliams; former Rep. Joseph Minish; former Assemblywoman Angela Perun; Central New Jersey radio personality and former NJSEA spokesman for Bernard Spigner; political strategist Greg Stevens, who served as Chief of Staff to Gov. Thomas Kean former Public Advocate Stanley Van Ness; former Assemblyman Harold Pareti; former State Senator Richard Van Wagner; former Wayne Mayor/Superior Court Judge David Waks; and George Warrington, the former Executive Director of New Jersey Transit and the former President of Amtrak.

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Assemblyman John S. Wisniewski

By James Sverapa IV - January 11, 2007 - 10:05pm

Tags: John Wisniewski, New Jersey Transit Corporation, George Warrington, Sayreville,

Release Date: Jan 11 2007

WISNIEWSKI ON NJ TRANSIT CHIEF RESIGNING

(SAYREVILLE) - Following the resignation announcement of New Jersey Transit's Executive Director, George Warrington, Assemblyman John S. Wisniewski (D-Middlesex), chairman of the Assembly Transportation and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement:

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NJ State Senate Democrats

By Jim Griffin - June 21, 2006 - 6:42pm

Tags: New Jersey Transit Corporation, George Warrington, William Crosbie, Amtrak,

Release Date: Jun 21 2006

SENATE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE TO QUESTION AMTRAK, NJ TRANSIT ON MAY POWER OUTAGE

TRENTON - The Senate Transportation Committee will hear testimony tomorrow from executives of Amtrak and NJ Transit on the power outage on the Northeast Corridor rail line on May 25 that left 15,000 NJ Transit passengers stranded for several hours.

"A service outage of this magnitude has fortunately been rare up to now," explained Senator Nicholas Sacco, D-Bergen and Hudson and Chair of the Committee. "We want to make sure that the events of May 25 are not indicative of more frequent outages in the future."

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