User:Djflem/Richard Turner (mayor)

Richard Turner is the Mayor of Weehawken, New Jersey. featured

Early career
Turner began his career as a 23-year-old intern at the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, eventually becoming Acting Deputy Director of the Division of Local Governmental Services. From this role, he was assigned township manager by the state, which took over the township's finances and replaced it town council. Turner moved to Weehawken, in the the Heights neighborhood, from Hazlet (Monmouth County).Then-mayor Wally Lindsley who was convicted in 1983 of trying to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars from developers and charged with placing the town in fiscal jeopardy, nearly bankruptcy. Weehawken was released from state control in 1983, with Turner remaining in the position of town manager through 1985. He served as business administrator in North Bergen. He returned as Weehawken's town manager in 1989. In 1990, after then-mayor Stanley Iacono choose not to run for reelection, Turner ran and won.