| As promised here is some information that anyone can quickly find on Google about Cid Wilson. For those of you not familiar with the numbers of Dominicanos in the state of Nueva Jersey, see the following article:
N.J. Dominicans set goal to enroll 15,000 voters
In this article from the Bergen Record some key names come up. Senator Menendez, of course, the most prominent. As well as Cid Wilson's and Lucilo Santos (a man that at some point I will write about as I untangle the Hispanic leadership in Northern New Jersey).
This link is some information on his CV highlights:
Dominicans in America 2005 and Beyond.
Hon. Cid Wilson (NJ),
President
Commissione r of the Bergen County,
NJ Improvement Authority, Founding
Boardmember of Dominicans on Wall
Street (DOWS), member of the New Jersey
State Ethnic Advisory Council, and Director
of Equity Research for Monarch Research
LLC.
And finally, one more link, before this becomes El Cid Wilson fan club...
Tale Of Two Islands
Manhattan and the Dominican Repulic both feel like home to Wall Street's new wizards of finance.
By Roberto Lovato
Among frequent fliers to Santo Domingo and elsewhere on the island are members of a nonprofit organization known as Dominicans on Wall Street, or DOWS. The mission of these financiers is to promote investment, educational exchanges on the island and careers in finance among Dominican youths living in New York.
For DOWS founding member Cid Wilson, managing director and chief research officer at Monarch Research, it was a meeting between Dominican government officials and Dominicans working on Wall Street that truly opened his eyes.
"When I came out of that meeting I was ecstatic," Wilson says. "For the first time in my life, I could be a Wall Street professional and flaunt my Dominican pride. I could be an executive who eats plátanos and gandules. I don't think anyone in that room had any idea how many of us worked in the industry. There were more than 80 of us that morning."
Following the meeting convened by the Dominican Republic Office of Investment and Development, which had extended invitations to several Dominican-American bankers and lawyers working with telecom corporation Tricom SA (the only Dominican firm listed on the New York Stock Exchange), Wilson and several compatriots in the finance sector founded DOWS in 1997.
Since then, Wilson and DOWS members have traveled back and forth between the island and New York providing pro bono advice to government and private-sector groups working to build a Dominican Stock Exchange. DOWS has also sponsored delegations that have visited schools in the Dominican Republic. A major part of the DOWS mission is to promote the value of education among students throughout the Dominican diaspora.
And one more...because we must highlight Cid Wilson and his ties to the County of Bergen.
Prominent Financial Analyst, Cid D. Wilson, Named to Bergen Community College Board of Trustees
By bergenpr Wednesday, June 21 2006, 03:15 PM
Cid D. Wilson, of Leonia
Cid D. Wilson, of Leonia, has been appointed to the Bergen Community College Board of Trustees. Mr. Wilson was officially sworn in at the Wednesday, May 3, meeting of the Board. Mr. Steven J. Moses, Chairman of the Board, has assigned Mr. Wilson to serve on the Audit and Finance/Legal, and the Education and Student Affairs Committees.
Mr. Wilson, a graduate of Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Science in Economics, is a Senior Analyst and Director of Research for Kevin Dann & Partners, LLC in New York City. In May 2006, he was named the top "Specialty Retailing Analyst" in the nation by Forbes magazine in their annual ranking of the best brokerage analysts in the country. From 2004-2006, Mr. Wilson was selected to address the White House on behalf of the Dominican-American community during the White House Dominican Independence Day Reception.
Mr. Wilson, a "life member" of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is the President of the Dominican American National Roundtable (DANR), a non-partisan, Washington, DC-based organization that campaigns for Dominicans at the national level. He is also the co-founder of Dominicans on Wall Street (DOWS), an association that assists Dominicans who are in pursuit of careers in the financial service industry. In April 2003, he was appointed Commissioner of the Bergen County Improvement Authority by County Executive Dennis McNerney, making him the youngest Commissioner as well as the first person of color to hold this appointment, a position he still maintains today.
So that is basic Cid right there. I hope to be able to dig up more interesting material at some point in the very near future.
Conclusion: What is the Hispanic leadership of Bergen County thinking? Cid Wilson is very impressive on paper, but a Ferriero-crat nonetheless, what a pity.
A prominent and concerned resident of Englewood picked out four personal reasons why he was supporting the Independent Democrat Bob Stern over Michael Wildes during the 2006 Englewood Mayoral Election. This resident just happened to be then Englewood Council President Scott Reddin. He voiced his opinions in a public email that included these reasons.
1) He has called Hispanics and told them that if he is not elected mayor, the council will vote to allow inspections in the middle of the night and deport all illegal immigrants immediately.
2) He told someone who was attending a Planning Board meeting for a variance for his church and was publicly for Bob, "do you want this passed or not," implying that if he supported Michael it would get passed.
3) He saw me at the Shop-Rite on Sunday. The scheduler for the county bus tour gets off their bus. Michael runs up to her and says, "Dont be nice to Scott," she replies to Michael, "Scott is a dear friend of mine and I will be nice to him."
4) Michael sent out a piece of literature with Steve Rothman and him together. Steve did not authorize this piece. He sent Michael a letter stating he should not use his picture again. Yesterday, Michael's people dropped off a piece of literature with Steve's picture on it!
Let's go back to the first point. This is the very same man that later had the audacity to speak at the following event:
Center for Government Services
Policy Seminar Series
"Immigration and Migration Trends:
Implications for New Jersey's Local Governments"
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
3:45 - 5:15 p.m.
Atlantic City Convention Center - Room 408
Over 8.5 million people reside in the State of New Jersey, although the level and rate of growth show significant variation by region. Much of the growth reflects the influx of individuals into the State, rather than birth rates for the existing population. New Jersey's population is very diverse, with a demographic profile that parallels
that for the entire country more so than any other state. The size, rate of growth, geographical concentration, and demographic mix of the
State's population are important factors in determining economic and political trends and the resulting public policies.
This session will describe New Jersey's demographic profile in the context of recent immigration and migration trends. Then the session will focus on the public policy implications of population mobility in such important policy areas as education, social services, and jobs.
The challenges these trends represent for municipal elected officials will be discussed.
Presiding Official
Michael Wildes, Mayor
City of Englewood
Moderator
Stuart Meck, Director
Center for Government Services
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Overview
Tim Evans, Research Director
New Jersey Future
Education
William Librera, Presidential Research
Professor of Education
Graduate School of Education
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Labor
Kathy Krepcio, Executive Director
John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Social Services
Daniel Santo Pietro, Executive Director
Hispanic Directors Association of New Jersey
Challenges for Municipalities Michael Wildes, Mayor
City of Englewood
It seems that according to Mayor Mike the challenges that municipalilties face as they are energized by new residents determined to work and better themselves can only be addressed by terrorizing these people to vote for him. A vote against Michael Wildes is to choose deportation.
The Weinberg/Zisa saga made the front page headline story on Politicsnj.com. on February 8, 2006. Bill Albers called it. This is nasty.
PoliticsNJ doesn't seem to keep archives of its articles. So I am just going to provide this clip from the article.
Zisa prepares for rematch with Weinberg
By BILL ALBERS
PoliticsNJ.com
Should a battle between Weinberg and Zisa eventually make it to the voters, things have the potential to get nasty. There are already suggestions that Weinberg will go on the offensive and attempt to attack Zisa on his record as police chief in Hackensack, as well as a controversial land deal Zisa was involved with in Paterson.
So we now know that Zisa won't be stepping up to Weinberg. Will he stand up to the Honorable Gordon M. Johnson?
Zisa lost a bid to become Senator. Zisa failed in a bid to become Bergen County Sheriff in 2001.
Johnson is THE Incumbent District 37 State Legislator. He served as Undersheriff in the Bergen County Sheriff's Department. He was the Bergen County Sheriff from 2001-2002. He was overwhelmingly elected as Councilman-at-Large in the city of Englewood.
Mismatch? |
