Альбио Сирес: Биография американского политика кубинского происхождения

American politician (born 1951)

Albio B. Sires ('/æ//l//b//i//oʊ// /'/s//ɪ//r//ᵻ//s/ ALbeeoh SIRRiss; born January 26, 1951) is a Cuban born American businessman and politician serving as the mayor of West New York, New Jersey, since 2023 and previously from 1995 to 2006. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Sires represented district 33 in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2000 to 2006, serving as Speaker of the New Jersey House from 2002 to 2006. He then served as the U. S. representative for from 2006 to 2023. The district, numbered as the from 2006 to 2013, included most of northern and eastern Jersey City, as well as most of Newark's Latino neighborhoods. He did not seek reelection in 2022.

Sires was born on January 26, 1951, in Bejucal, Cuba. He immigrated to the United States with his family at age 11 with the help of relatives in the U. S. He eventually settled in West New York, New Jersey; he still lives there, in a town that was 78.08% Hispanic according to the 2010 census. He attended Public School 4, where he and his brother were two of only three Latinos in the school. Sires learned English from a teacher who used flashcards and phonetics, and subsequently attended Memorial High School, where he was a star basketball player, whose skills on the court helped him obtain a basketball scholarship to Saint Peter's College. He received a B. A. in 1974 in Spanish and marketing. He received an M. A. in Spanish from Middlebury College in 1985.

Sires first ran for office as the Republican nominee for New Jersey's 14th congressional district. Sires was the first Hispanic mayor of West New York and in 2004 was elected mayor of the year by his fellow mayors. Sires was an active Democrat in the 1970s and 1980s. He switched to the Republican Party in 1985 and ran for Congress in 1986 against Frank Guarini. Sires lost that election, 71% to 26%. Sires left the Republican Party in 1994 and became a registered independent. Sires rejoined the Democratic Party in 1998. Three years later, he became speaker. Sires was the mayor of West New York, New Jersey, from 1995 to 2006. He was succeeded by Vega, who will retain his mayoral seat while he simultaneously serves in the Assembly, joining three fellow Hudson County mayors—Brian Stack of Union City in the Assembly and Nicholas Sacco of North Bergen and Joseph Doria of Bayonne in the New Jersey Senate—who serve as both mayors and in the New Jersey Legislature. For many years, it was common for New Jersey mayors to serve in the legislature; this practice of "double dipping" was abolished in 2006, but who had been in both positions before the February 1, 2008, cutoff date were grandfathered in and could retain both jobs. During the time that Sires served in the Assembly, he was paid $49,000 for his state legislative position and $15,000 annually as mayor.

+ and : Results 2006–2020YearDemocraticVotesPctRepublicanVotesPct3rd PartyPartyVotesPct3rd PartyPartyVotesPct2006Albio Sires77,23877.5%John Guarini19,28419.4%Brian WilliamsSocialist Workers1,0491.1%Herbert H. ShawPoliticians Are Crooks9981.0%*2008206,45375.4%Joseph Turula34,37521.7%Julio A. FernandezIndependent3,6611.5%Louis VernoticoEliminate the Primary9750.4%201062,84068.1%Henrietta Dwyer19,53821.2%Anthony ZanowicAmerican Independent1,5081.6%Maximo NacerIndependent9101.0%2012130,85778.8%Maria Karczewski31,76719.1%Herbert ShawIndependent1,8411.1%Stephen DelucaIndependent1,7101.0%201461,51077.4%Jude Anthony Tiscornia15,14119.0%Herbert ShawIndependent1,1921.5%Pablo OliveraIndependent1,0221.3%*2016134,73377.0%Agha Khan32,33718.5%Pablo OliveraIndependent4,3812.5%Dan DelaneyLibertarian3,4382.0%2018119,88178.1%John R. Muniz28,75218.7%Mahmoud MahmoudIndependent3,6582.4%Dan DelaneyLibertarian1,1910.8%2020176,75874.0%Jason Mushnick58,68624.6%Dan DelaneyLibertarian3,3291.4%

On October 4, 2013, Sires's hometown of West New York, New Jersey, honored him by renaming its Public School No. 4 the Albio Sires Elementary School. The school, at 6300 Palisade Avenue, is the elementary school Sires attended as a child. In attendance at the ceremony were West New York Mayor Felix Roque and U. S. Senator Robert Menendez.